Resources for Entrepreneurs
Are you a current student or recent alumni entrepreneur looking for resources to help guide you on your journey?
- Blackstone Launchpad: offers mentorship and venture creation support for individuals or startups at any stage in any industry, as well as access to a global network and other resources.
- Careers Beyond Academia/BEST: Careers Beyond Academia/BEST–We help doctoral students and postdocs from all disciplines in their exploration of careers beyond academia through flexible, experiential, empowering opportunities.
- Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise: A resource for Cornell students interested in issues pertaining to business and sustainability.
- Cornell Entrepreneurs Network (CEN): Offers events throughout the country and globally, networking opportunities and online webinars featuring alumni industry leaders as speakers.
- Cornell Food Venture Center: Assists beginning and established food entrepreneurs in business and product process development, product safety, process/product technology transfer and product commercialization.
- Cornell Startup Tree: An online community for Cornell startups to foster connections
- Cornell Tech: Offers graduate programs in business, engineering, and law, as well as dual-degree programs with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
- eHub Collegetown: The second and third floors of 409 College Avenue provide over 10,000 sq ft of co-working space for student ventures. 24/7 access is available to student startup team members.
- eHub Kennedy Hall: Conference rooms and co-working space available to entrepreneurship students and faculty 9am – 6pm weekdays.
- eLab: An accelerator program for students ready to launch real businesses. In addition to receiving academic credit, students have access to a robust set of resources. Cornell takes no equity in eLab ventures.
- Entrepreneurship at Cornell: Provides university-wide programming that fosters the entrepreneurial spirit in participants from any college, any discipline and at any stage.
- Entrepreneurship at Cornell Internship Program: Connects entrepreneurial students with opportunities to gain essential experience in small to mid-sized businesses located throughout the US and abroad.
- Grow NY: Cornell is administering a new business competition and support program for innovative, high-growth startups in food and agriculture. Announced by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in May 2019, the competition will run for three years distributing $3 million in awards each year.
- Life Changing Labs: A local nonprofit that supports Cornell’s entrepreneurially-minded students through various activities including a summer incubator, make-a-thons, pitch contests and dinners.
- New York Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture: Serves as a hub to connect New York businesses with worldclass Cornell researchers, farmers, processors, businesses and consumers. Pulls together multiple partners to accelerate business development and grow the New York agriculture and food economy.
- Smith Family Business Initiative: Dedicated to supporting and strengthening the network of owners, leaders and alumni that work in, with or for a family business.
- Student Agencies Inc: A student-run corporation providing diverse services ranging from summer storage to campus marketing. Its foundation is a major supporter for eLab, eHub and the annual Summit and Celebration events.
- Bank of America Institute for Women’s Entrepreneurship at Cornell: An online learning portal, with curriculum developed by Cornell professors, that provides women entrepreneurs with the skills, knowledge and resources to build, manage, and scale a successful business.
- Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise: A resource for Cornell students interested in issues pertaining to business and sustainability.
- Cornell Cooperative Extensions (CCE): Regional agriculture teams provide research-based information, programs and technical assistance to dairy, field crops, vegetable, tree fruits and grape producers around the state in pursuit of economic vitality, ecological sustainability and social well-being.
- Cornell Entrepreneurs Network (CEN): Offers events throughout the country and globally, networking opportunities and online webinars featuring alumni industry leaders as speakers.
- Cornell Food Venture Center: Assists beginning and established food entrepreneurs in business and product process development, product safety, process/product technology transfer and product commercialization.
- Cornell NorCal: A diverse and vibrant community of 15,000 Cornell alumni, students, and parents in the Bay area.
- Cornell Silicon Valley (CSV): Provides educational and networking opportunities throughout the Bay Area.
- Cornell Startup Tree: An online community for Cornell startups to foster connections
- Entrepreneurship at Cornell (EaC): Provides university-wide programming that fosters the entrepreneurial spirit in participants from any college, any discipline and at any stage.
- Entrepreneurship Law Clinic: Provides free legal services to Ithaca-area entrepreneurs and startups who are not yet ready or able to engage paid legal counsel.
- Grow-NY: Cornell is administering a new business competition and support program for innovative, high-growth startups in food and agriculture. Announced by NY Governor Andrew Cuomo in May 2019, the competition will run for three years distributing $3 million in awards each year.
- New York Center of Excellence for Food and Agriculture: Serves as a hub to connect New York businesses with worldclass Cornell researchers, farmers, processors, businesses and consumers. Pulls together multiple partners to accelerate business development and grow the New York agriculture and food economy.
- Red Bear Angels: A highway through which Cornell entrepreneurs can access the individual investors who can be most helpful to them. Red Bear Angels makes it simple for individuals to make angel investments in startups tied to Cornell University and its alumni base.
- REV: Ithaca Startup Works: Business incubator and event space offering mentorship, workspace and startup resources for Ithaca’s entrepreneurial community.
- Smith Family Business Initiative: dedicated to supporting and strengthening the network of owners, leaders and alumni that work in, with or for a family business.
- Upstate New York NSF I-Corps Node: Led by Cornell University, in partnership with other regional institutions, the program helps researchers move their technology to market. 20-30 teams are recruited for the national NSF program and receive over $25,000 in funding.
- 76 West: A clean energy business competition, sponsored by NYSERDA, focused on growing clean energy businesses and jobs in New York State’s Southern Tier region.
Mentorship
The Pillsbury Institute Entrepreneurs in Residence program enables students to learn through ongoing personal interaction with successful entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs meet one-on-one with students to help them with business development, networking, and career planning.
If you are interested in becoming an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR), please contact pihe@cornell.edu.
Students interested in meeting with our EIRs can visit our website.
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