Workshop Series: What is your concept. Your idea. Your project. Pitch your Idea for support and feedback: Workshops, Practice Pitch Prep, and Pitch Festival. Adjunct Professor: Jen van der Meer Background: Over the past five+ years NYU ITP has organized increasingly successful Investor Pitchfest to showcase startup team ideas worthy of funder consideration and attention.
We just wrapped up our second Lean experiment at ITP last night with a Lessons Learned dinner party. We had extraordinarily candid speakers this semester who humbly told us of their successes and failures, pivots and turnarounds, origin stories and the truth behind their funding and scale. A few of my favorite wisdom pickings from
Starting next Monday – (one week defer thanks to the blizzard) – an open invitation to any entrepreneur, funder, or advisor to startups to visit our Lean class at ITP. This year we focus not just on lean but on the actual efforts required to develop a product to MVP – and the students will
Looking forward to the multiple disciplines being convened at the Biofabricate conference – and the chance to thread environment impact assessment, health impact, startup ethics, and the precautionary principle. ‘BIOFABRICATE’ is the world’s first summit dedicated to biofabrication for future industrial and consumer products. Biofabrication comprises highly disruptive technologies enabling design and manufacturing to intersect
Apply as a team, launch an MVP in one semester. NYU ITP is offering for the second time a for-credit Lean class designed to get your team to a minimum viable product launch within one semester. This course is open to all enrolled NYU students, and you are invited to join a team or submit
Last class we did a quick tour of Paradigm Shifts, Deleuze and Guattari, and Passive House vs. LEED. Anti-Oedipus: A Thousand Plateaus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia. We looked at Deleuze and Guattari as an exercise in mindset shift – there is nothing like Anti-Oedipus in the hands of a global group of makers who can manufacture
Is your idea best suited for seed and angel funding, or should you launch on Indiegogo first? What about the values of bootstrapping? What’s a social venture, and if you think you have one, are you better structured as a for-profit, or not-for-profit, or B-Corp? Or, perhaps your freelance design practice is ready to scale—what
Repost from the Economics and Statistics Administration: New York City – Under Secretary Mark Doms participated in a high level data discussion this morning at the Strata+Hadoop World Conference in New York City. Before an audience of 500 leading technologists and data programmers, Under Secretary Doms talked with host Jennifer van der Meer, Adjunct Professor
Tomorrow I look forward to a fireside chat conversation with Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs Mark Doms at Strata Hadoop’s Data Driven Business Day. Government Statistics in the Era of Big Data Mark Doms (United States Department of Commerce), Jen van der Meer (Reason Street) 9:25am Wednesday, 10/15/2014 Data-Driven Business Day Location: E
The past two weeks in class we spent time first paying attention to the Ebola crisis, then trying to map out the system as we understand it. While much of health technology has come to focus on in hospital systems, electronic health records, and chronic disease management, we wanted to see what we could envision