This series of practicums explores the question of what it means for a person to be entrepreneurial, including approaches, skills, spirit, and more. Each week features an active discussion or working session with a guest practitioner who engages the world through his or her entrepreneurial effort. Led by Greg Pass, Chief Entrepreneurial Officer.
All practicums are held at Cornell Tech in Big Red on Fridays from 10a to 12p unless otherwise noted.
- 8/30 - Storytelling with Robert Wong, Chief Creative Officer at Google Creative Lab
- 9/6 - Early entrepreneurship with Carter Cleveland, Founder and CEO at Art.sy, Elias Roman, Co-founder and CEO at Songza, and Brian Shimmerlik, Founder and CEO at Vengo (all NYC Venture Fellows)
- 9/13 - Intrapreneurship with Rob Cook, former VP of Engineering at Pixar
- 9/20 - Art with Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture & Design at MoMA (field trip to MoMA, 10:30a to 12p)
- 9/27 - Venture capital with Albert Wenger, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures
- 10/4 - Design with Autodesk
- 10/11 - Digital humanism with Douglas Rushkoff (starts at 10:15a)
- 10/18 - Teambuilding with Scott Kupor, Managing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
- 10/25 - Social entrepreneurship with Charles Best, Founder and CEO at DonorsChoose
- 11/15 - Product management with Jason Goldman, Co-founder of Obvious and former VP of Product at Twitter
- 12/6 - Lessons learned with David Tisch, Managing Director at BoxGroup and Co-founder at Techstars
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To help students understand the value of entrepreneurialism, what it takes to be entrepreneurial, and how to achieve real-world impact. These topics can be understood commercially, societally, and personally.
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To broadly expose students to varying forms and means of real-world, entrepreneurial impact, from commercial success to societal good, from computer science to inter-disciplines, from the pure tech sector to the information economy transforming all sectors, from startups to growth opportunities on and at any stage.
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To give students first-hand contact with entrepreneurial individuals that can serve as role models and connectors.
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To help students develop personal models of entrepreneurialism that will motivate and aid their own entrepreneurial efforts after graduation.
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Students should spend a little time preparing for each practicum by reading about the guests and thinking of a few questions to ask.
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Students must proactively engage the guests and each other, asking attentive questions and making followup comments.
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At the end of each practicum, one or two students are called upon to note their key takeaways from that practicum.
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In the final practicum, many students are called upon to present their key takeaways from the entire series of practicums, to be discussed as a group and with the guests.
This series is graded S/U. Attendance and participation are required. Students are allowed one unexcused absence.