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Who: Wahid Jalil of EzeezoWhat: 3D property tours bringing transparency to renting and home buyingLooking for: Partnerships in real estate and restaurant/hospitality industriesWhen I moved to Manhattan to start working for the Zahn Innovation Center, I looked to sites like Zillow, Trulia, and Craigslist to help me find apartments and rooms for rent in the city. While these sites were helpful in many ways, they werent always reliable. Often the advertisements were exaggerated or false, especially when it came to the pictures. I remember walking into an apartment expecting a cozy… Read More »
Yesterday, representatives from UNICEF and NYC Media Lab hosted an info session about two social good competitions happening this summer:1. UNICEF's Wearables for Good Challenge2. NYC Media Lab & Bloomberg's Data for Good ExchangeAmy Chen from NYC Media Lab shared this message:Apply now! $25k in grants & prizes for university research on data & social goodCalling all students, faculty and university researchers! Are you currently collaborating with a nonprofit / NGO on data analysis for a civic cause?Youre invited to present your research at Bloombergs Data for Good… Read More »
We are very pleased to announce that one of our startups, GoHappy! won first place (and $25K in services!) in the University of Delaware's “Hen Hatch” Competition.GoHappy! was also invited to participate in CUNY's Center for Student Entrepreneurship Fall 2015 Cohort!Hen Hatch is the University of Delawares premier startup funding competition. It provides entrepreneurial students, alumni, faculty, and staff with the opportunity to make connections and collect feedback on their ideas while competing for startup cash and prizes totaling $50,000. This year the… Read More »
Were proud to announce that one of our startups, Localtarian, has been accepted into the Google-backed accelerator program Cofound Harlem. Cofound Harlem is led by serial entrepreneurs John Henry, Ahishar Maxima, and Evan Dudla and a team of world-class mentors. It offers a unique co-working space and rigorous 9-month curriculum. Congrats, Localtarian!You may have witnessed Daniel Gutierrez, Mahmudul Hassan, and Kevin Rivera of Localtarian delivering brown-bagged lunches around campus and sharing their bright orange menus that boast the bold, genuine flavors of their home chefs… Read More »
The Zahn Innovation Center is building a community of women who want to make an impact on their world. We'd like to invite all women to join us on Monday, June 15th for a Riff Sesh.Come chat, share ideas, make new friends, and leave empowered.Monday, June 15th at 5:30pm in the Zahn Center at the City College of New York, Marshak Science Building Rm052 (basement of the library). Light refreshments will be served.RSVP to
kolives@ccny.cuny.edu
It was difficult for our Zahntrepreneurs to get up in front of 100 people and pitch their startups during the Final Pitch. Especially because seventy-four percent of Americans suffer from a fear of public speaking. If you are one of that seventy-four percent, join us for a chance to practice your speech skills & have fun at the same time!The Zahn Innovation Center's Fishbowl Sessions are meant to remind you that you don't have to take public speaking so seriously. They'll help you become more comfortable with the idea of public speaking by getting you to practice… Read More »
The Zahn Innovation Center will expand its programs into the greater CCNY community this Fall with a 3-credit course, “Entrepreneurship: Women & Diversity”. This class will explore how gender, ethnic, racial, religious, and socio-economic diversity impacts the entrepreneurial experience. The curriculum will include a number of guest speakers to give students real-world perspectives.This course is open to CCNY students as an Economics Elective cross-listed with the Women's Studies and Black Studies programs. It will meet on Wednesdays from 5-7:30pm. Pre-requisites include ECO… Read More »
This Thursday and Friday, May 14th and 15th, Zahn Innovation Center startups Enza Academy ('14), Localtarian ('15), and DIY Care ('15) will be featured at the Future of Food in Harlem event.Hosted by West Harlem Group Assistance, along with Harlem Grown, CONNECT, Inc., and Parsons/New School design students and professors, the program will feature presentations and interactive workshops lead by Harlem-based food justice activists, social entrepreneurs and youth-leadership organizations as well as partners in university and sector small business.Themes… Read More »
On Tuesday, May 19th, the Zahn Innovation Center will host another Founders' Spotlight Speaker! This time we'll meet Stephen Garten, a social entrepreneur and founder of Charity Charge, a Texas-based company empowering cardholders to earn and donate one percent of every purchase to the charities and causes they love.Charity Charge founder Stephen Garten, 28, has always been a firm supporter of local Austin charities and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore (the institution treated his late father for cancer). After one round of donations, he checked his credit card… Read More »
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