InSITE fellow Marshall Cox wins $200,000 MIT Clean Energy Prize
Marshall Cox, an InSITE Fellow, Startup Leadership Fellow, and PhD metformin hcl 500 mg weight loss candidate of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, won the $200,000 Grand Prize at the MIT Clean Energy Prize competition, and with it the chance to compete in the 1st annual National Clean Energy Business Plan Competition held at the White House in mid June. Cox’s company, Radiator Labs, is a venture he started in his apartment two winters ago to solve the overheating and efficiency problems associated with steam heat. The low-cost radiator retrofit that he is developing with his team aims to carefully...
Read MoreAlex Ferrara receives InSITE’s Alumni Achievement Award
InSITE’s Board Member Alex Ferrara (Columbia Business School and InSITE fellow, 2004) has been this year’s recipient of the Alumni Achievement Award. Alex is a Partner at NYC-based venture capital firm Millennium Technology Ventures and focuses on investments in software and internet companies and the intersection of financial services and technology, including market structure-related investments and capital markets technologies. He is a Director at Shopify, Director at OMGPOP and Director at SelectMinds. At Millennium, Alex led the investment in HootSuite. Previously, Alex...
Read MoreFinding legal help as a start up
If you are like me, the only thing you know about the law is that you should plead the fifth when you did something wrong and don’t want to admit it … not that I’ve ever done anything wrong though . When my team and I began creating ThreadMatcher, we realized that this was something we would be investing all of our time to. In order to get it started right, we knew that we needed legal help. (DO NOT get a lawyer unless you are going to follow through with your idea). Unfortunately, neither of my cofounders knew a ton about the law either. We started our search by asking anyone...
Read MoreInSITE Fellow attends the SXSW Festival in Austin
The average MBA student will use spring break as an opportunity to learn how business is conducted in a different part of the world. In true entrepreneurial fashion, I decided to take a less traditional path with my break. For the last few years I have been interested in attending SXSW, so for my spring break I opted out of an overseas experience and flew down to Austin, Texas. SXSW is an interactive festival with tons of speakers, panels, parties, and people. There are literally 20-30 different interesting things taking place at any point of the day. I equipped my iPhone with GroupMe to keep...
Read MoreFinding the right cofounders
“I’ve got this great idea.” You hear it all the time, but how often do you hear a follow up of, “This thing has really taken off!” One of the MANY reasons for would-be-entrepreneurs talking rather than doing is that they are not able to find the right people to partner up with. Over a year ago, I felt that I had uncovered a large problem concerning how fashion sites were using their users’ social graph. I had an idea that I thought solved this problem and I decided to take the next steps to uncover whether or not I had something useful or even possible. I wrote up a...
Read MoreInSITE Fellow Victoria Cheng awarded prestigious ‘Kauffman Fellowship’
Victoria Cheng, an InSITE Fellow and MBA student at Columbia Business School, has recently been selected to be part of the ‘Kauffman Fellows Program’ as a Kauffman Finalist, in a two-year program granted by the Center for Venture Education that aims to educate, develop and network emerging leaders in the venture capital industry and to cultivate new high-technology, high-growth and high-impact companies. Each year, 30 people are chosen worldwide to be part of this fellowship and selection signals membership among an elite cadre of the world’s most promising venture...
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