The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/entrepreneurship-at-cornell/)
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.
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This past weekend, while the Cornell Campus shut down for an unprecedented snow day, the eHub on College Avenue hummed to life with an atmosphere of innovation and excitement. On Friday evening, students, mentors, and speakers, congregated in Collegetown to embark on the three-day enterprise that is the Cornell Health Hackathon. The Cornell Health Hackathon is an event that encourages students from a diverse background of degrees, majors, and schools to collaborate in teams and produce a viable solution to a relevant issue in the medical community. This year’s hackathon outlined two health-related problems for teams to tackle. The first challenge involved resolving the global antibacterial resistance crisis, the other, creating an easy to use sleep tracking program.
Twelve Cornell alumni were named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, an annual compilation of 600 of the “brightest young entrepreneurs, leaders and stars” in the U.S., according to Forbes.
“He had been a bedrock of Cornell entrepreneurship for more than three decades and has impacted thousands of students, who, as alumni, hold him in highest regard.”
“For the rest of the year, I’m just hoping Vita can grow our number of sales so that I’m able to get a huge amount of supplies for Austin Street; we’ll make our donation around the holidays,” said Daniel Abaraoha ’18
“We’re basically creating this intersection between social media and ride hailing,” Schiff said. “It’s really a hub for your social life, and that’s really the vision of where it’s going.”
The Kennedy Hall location provides “collaboration space” for students, lecture space for entrepreneurship programs and various staff offices.
At a panel entitled “The Sustainable Dinner Plate: The changing landscape of food entrepreneurship,” panelists discussed the divide between ecological and profit incentives.