The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/entrepreneurship/)
Jonah Gershon ’24, a student in the Nolan School of Hotel Administration, created a brown butter stick company after noticing a lack of convenience in producing the ingredient.
On April 13 to 14, Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s annual conference will be held at the Statler Hotel, celebrating Cornellians’ entrepreneurship achievements.
After explorations at Cornell and years of startup experiences, Karli Miller-Hornick ’12 has fulfilled her entrepreneurial spirit through her cannabis business, which she co-founded in Ithaca in 2017.
Demand for these noodles was exploding, and weekly orders were filling up in four, three, two minutes from the moment they opened. For weeks we tried, and finally, through a bit of persistence, the elusive noodles finally became ours to try.
Founder of Bluemercury Barry Beck ’90 has been named this year’s recipient of the Entrepreneur of the Year award and will receive the award at the annual Entrepreneurship at Cornell Celebration on April 14.
Club culture is integral to all students’ experiences, whether they like it or not. This culture is not necessarily unique to Cornell — though I cannot definitively say or quantify its impact in higher education across the nation. Here on our campus, I see that it has created a herd mentality with both pros and cons, but from the perspective of a student founder, I believe there is a point where obsession with club culture does more to stifle the creativity of the student body than encourage it.
I speak from the perspective of an undergraduate senior who is/was involved in a few major clubs with time commitments ranging between six to ten hours per week each on average. One is a prominent dance team, a second is a well-known consulting club and another still is a university-backed project team. For the first two years of college especially, I found myself devoting a lot of time to the work and social commitments of each club — it’s worth noting that these clubs in particular were not casual commitments, although that is the nature of many clubs at Cornell.
I think of my college experience as two different stories: the first two years of which were spent building up my social experience and my clubs, and the latter two focused more on my personal endeavors.
AI-Learners, a company founded and run by current Cornell students, aims to improve math accessibility for students with disabilities through educational games.
SpeakUp Ventures, launched this spring by Jeffrey Zhang ’20, will provide mentorship opportunities and funding to startups by Asian entrepreneurs.
“The mentor taught me that you can only manifest certain things if you believe in yourself,” Jobarteh said. “He told me to believe in myself and my capabilities, even though sometimes I will feel like I’m not doing the best.”
“Don’t be afraid to explore and reach out to people who have done something entrepreneurial. That’s the best way for you to learn whether this is the lifestyle for you.”