Center For Entrepreneurship

at the NYIT School of Management (Manhattan Campus, NY)

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Calling all entrepreneurs! It's time to pitch your ideas at Whiteboard Day!

Join us on 21st November at 12:45 pm - 2:00 pm at 26 W 4th Floor, Business Incubator for a day of brainstorming, networking, and pitching. This is your chance to get your ideas in front of a panel of experts and investors and win prizes to help you launch your business.

Whether you're just starting out or you're ready to take your business to the next level, Whiteboard Day is the perfect opportunity for you.

To register,

visit https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ss8mQRGf6HxNOzYJ5o7UILTgm2UO_8laKn58vkfQzoI/edit?usp=sharing_eil_se_dm&ts=654cf6ed.

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Aspiring female tech entrepreneurs join NYITSOM and SoECS Students to discuss the challenge of Product/Venture Development in the local market. These meetings provide NYIT students with real-world case studies for designing, developing, and launching a product into the marketplace.

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SOMCES Director D.Bernard Webster represented NYIT at the Founders RoadMap to Funding Forum hosted by Zane Venture Fund. He joined the panel with representatives for the NYC Department of Small Business Services Commissioner and Venture Capital space to discuss a range of topics including diversity and inclusion in tech along with product development strategies for emerging tech startups.

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The SOMCES co-sponsored the local Minority Business Development Agency's “NYC Transportation Summit” a federal agency within the US Department of Commerce. The theme was innovation in transportation bringing together Labor, Commerce, Finance, Policy and Design professionals to discuss the challenge of replacing aging regional transportation systems.

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The SOMCES introduced the first-ever “Chief Technology Officer in Training (CTO-IT) Program” (CTO-IT) course offering non-technical SOM graduate students an opportunity to gain hands-on design and development skills by working with Full-Stack instructors, and lectures from guest experts. This course aims to shrink the growing technology chasm (in knowledge and proficiency) among non-technical entrepreneurs seeking to launch new ideas for tech startups. Programming will include a comprehensive survey of industry leading technology services and their corresponding consumer or business applications including but not limited to: a) machine learning/data science, b) augmented /virtual reality, c) cloud services and d) developer frameworks for online and mobile technologies. Through this format, the CTO-IT will assist SOM graduate students in becoming capable technologists proficient in product development/ management, within the context of a new technology venture. Topics/Learning Objective(s): The course will include a survey of Entry-Level Technical Training in Web/ Mobile Programming Languages, Cloud Services, and Development Frameworks including but not limited to: Cloud Services: Google Suite (eg. Docs, Forms, Sheets, Sites, Firebase) Mobile Wire-framing tools: Marvel (iOS/Android) Sketchware (iOS/Android) Wireflow (iOS/Android)Development Frameworks: -WordPress.org -Ionic Creator -React Native Cloud-based Integrated Development Environments (IDE): -Thunkable.com -Ionic Pro -Appy Pie Native IDE's: -Android Studio (Google) -X-Code (Apple)

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The SOMCES co-sponsored the “Smart Hustle” marketing conference with NYIT alum Ramon Ray. Keynote speaker was a world-renowned marketer and author Seth Godin. The event was attended by more than 200 local small business owners and students for the SOM and SoECS.

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The SOMCES hosts a focus group with entrepreneurs from various backgrounds to gain insights into relevant course content for an update entrepreneurship education curriculum at the SOM. Feedback for several topics of discussion are as follows:

#1. What skills should be learned in an entrepreneurship program? (S,E)

a. Financials, Budgeting;

b. Understanding Cash Flow Profits and Revenue;

c. The work life balance;

d. Time management;

e. Gender-based programming;

f. *Communication skills (*To specifically address gender and cultural differences; Confidence for Public Speaking (*all genders), Presence Presentation and Effective Communication);

g. Software Development/Tech proficiency;

h. AGILE Methodology as the new business model.

i. Marketing, Branding;

j. Social media as a class by itself

#2. How should the program be structured (traditional classes, short courses, practical

a. Non-traditional setting;

b. Experiential learning;

c. Trial and error is perhaps the most valuable; Mentorship;

d. Project-based learning;

e. Visual-learning;

f. Hands-on -participation;

g. Include a “Shark Tank” Experience in the curriculum;

#12. What do you wish you had known or had done in college (E)?

a. Pre-requisite course called career ‘Discovery’—find your passion; Are entrepreneurs made or born?

b. Reading Business Books on Entrepreneurship;

c. Design-thinking;

d. Finding resources for the business startup process;

e. How to use the library for research;​

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The SOM-CES Partnered with the CoECS Entrepreneurship Technology Innovation Center (ETIC) to host a joint information session for Management and Engineering students seeking business coaching, strategy and product development support on the Manhattan Campus.

The goal was to widen student awareness of the resources available across both campuses to foster their innovation of new products or businesses.

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SOM-CES sponsored the ““Young Sharks Entrepreneurship Program” for the Department of Youth & Community Development’s citywide COMPASS program.*The SOM Business Incubator will host the winning teams this summer to assist them with their eventual business launch.

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 SOM-CES coordinates (2) trips to Google for NYIT Graduate Students.

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SOM-CES co-hosted (40) Chinese Executives for the China Tobacco Monopoly to discuss innovation and diversification strategies for growth industries.

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SOM-CES Hosts (2) Tech Entrepreneurship Sponsored PE Workshop Events on the Manhattan Campus; Outcomes: *50 community participants

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SOM-CES Coordinated Panel of Experts on behalf of the School of Management for NYIT’s first annual BlockChain Symposium (2018)

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Students from the NYC Department of Small Business Services celebrate their completion of the FastTrac New Venture course co-sponsored by the SOM Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. This pilot program gives NYIT students access to real world entrepreneurship training offered through the City of New York’s citywide Business Solutions Centers.

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@somcesnyc Students from the 1st Graduate Entrepreneurship Program travel to San Jose for the Open Silicon Valley Conference. Students met with Venture Capitalists D. Naveed Sherwani of PeerNova and Dr. Salman Azhar of Duke University, visited the prestigious Plug and Play Tech Center and were led in their venture assessments from Fahad Aziz, founder of CareMerge which recently raised $20 million in Series B funding.

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@somcesnyc Entrepreneur-in-Residence Ara Ohanian coaches the students in the CES Graduate Entrepreneurship Program on how to pitch to investors. Ohanian exited his previous firm via a $60 million acquisition to Infor.

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Last month @somcesnyc hosted WIBO’s graduation of new entrepreneurs on campus. WIBO is a  private non-profit organization that provides a 16-week workshops on  topics such as “How to Build a Growing Profitable Business" to men and women with the drive to become entrepreneurs. In the effort to build meaningful ties to the community, the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies sponsored this event to demonstrate the campus commitment to supporting entrepreneurship and new venture creation throughout NYC. More than 100 new entrepreneurs completed the WIBO program. Congratulations!