CS Startup, a course where teams apply to receive funding for their startup is another founder hub.Īt Harvard, David Malan's well-known Introduction to Computer Science course is where most technical founders get their start. So where do aspiring founders turn to get started? The Engineering School's Entrepreneurial Process class is where more recent companies including Daycation, Speechify, and Spotter were born. Perhaps it's Brown's Open Curriculum, which does away with distribution requirements and core curriculum that its peer institutions require, that has enabled such creative companies like TeeSpring to emerge on campus. Startup Studio-born Datalog, Nanit, and Uru have already caught investor attention.Ĭornell Tech recently opened a new campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City WikimediaĪt Brown, she's taking The Entrepreneurial Process: Startup Studio teams up groups of students to develop, prototype, test, and pitch an idea, and is a gateway for the university's Startup Awards, which provide funding for startups each year. While they're new to the scene, they've quickly gained a reputation for being one of the country's most entrepreneurial campuses: their roster of faculty includes former Twitter CTO Greg Pass, who joined as the university's founding CEO, and startup investor David Tisch, who teaches the campus' signature entrepreneurship class called Startup Studio. More recent UChicago-born companies include Mighty and Explorer Surgical.Īt Cornell Tech, she's taking Startup Studio:įounded in 2012, Cornell Tech is Cornell University's new technology-focused graduate school in New York City. This course is designed to help student teams develop their own business plans and work with venture capitalists, investors, and entrepreneurs. One course, in particular, has a legacy of breeding entrepreneurs: Special Topics in Entrepreneurship: Developing a New Venture. The University of Chicago has emerged an unexpected entrepreneurship hub with startups like GrubHub and Braintree getting their start on campus. This is where Tufts-born Acenna got its start.Īt the University of Chicago, she's taking Special Topics in Entrepreneurship: Developing a New Venture: Taught by Mark Ranalli, the associate dean and executive director of the Tufts Gordon Institute, Launching the Venture requires course students to either start a new business based on a business plan, or consult at an actual start-up. Tufts' entrepreneurial culture has matured significantly over the past few years: The Entrepreneurial Leadership Studies minor (dubbed ELS by students) is now the university's most popular minor and the number of companies working from The Tufts Venture Lab nearly doubled last year alone.

At Tufts, she's taking Entrepreneurial Field Study: Launching the Venture:

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