With $800 million at stake, let the games begin
It’s on: Governor Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday officially opened the seventh round of the annual Regional Economic Development Council competition, a statewide funding contest in which each of the state’s…
Hofstra University
Best laid plans: Seven head to Albany for $100K shot
By GREGORY ZELLER // Hofstra University showed off its innovation chops in this week’s regional round of the 2017 New York State Business Plan Competition. Four of the seven teams…
Getting excited about Hofstra’s ‘Startup Weekend’
By GREGORY ZELLER // A marathon business-development exercise with a global lineage will give Long Island entrepreneurs a commercialization crash course, with two feet on the accelerator. Hofstra University is…
Following crash course, ParqMi shifts into drive
By GREGORY ZELLER // A software startup determined to help you find a parking space is hitting the gas. Fresh off a three-month stint at StartFast, the mentorship-driven “venture accelerator”…
Hofstra, SCCC land entrepreneur training funds
Hofstra University and Suffolk Community College are in line for grants of about $81,000 each to help local entrepreneurs write business plans, attract financing and develop markets. The money comes…
The Debrief: Seeds planted, now on to cultivation
When last we Debriefed Mark Lesko, the former assistant U.S. attorney and Brookhaven Town supervisor had just left his post as executive director of Accelerate Long Island (sorta) and taken…
Bionic hand, big stare top Hofstra pitch challenge
By GREGORY ZELLER // A 3D-printed bionic hand and a digital-age update on the classic “staring contest” were the big winners Thursday at the Hofstra University CPXi Venture Challenge. The…
Extended beta complete, meet Bettr for iOS
By GREGORY ZELLER // Bettr late than never. Originally scheduled to go live in December, Bettr – the social media-management app invented by Hofstra University chums James Knaus and Ashish…
Hofstra names 6 residents in entrepreneurship
Six accomplished businesspeople with dozens of startups under their combined belts, and a wealth of experience nurturing other early-stage enterprises, will bring their wisdom to the Hofstra University Center for…
The Debrief: Susan Sadocha helps innocents abroad
As director of one of the U.S. Commerce Department’s 100-plus U.S. Export Assistance Centers, you might say Susan Sadocha is in the foreign intelligence business, with firsthand experience – so…
Hofstra revamps its student pitch program
The CPXi Challenge has returned to Hofstra University – slightly tweaked, in hopes of involving and inspiring a greater number of innovative thinkers. Hofstra graduate and trustee Mike Seiman, founder…
New life for lifelong learning
Keeping up with evolving work environments takes some doing, and Hofstra University wants to give regional professionals a hand – whether or not they sign up for the school’s continuing-education courses….
Women-focused pitch program at Hofstra
Hofstra’s Center for Entrepreneurship has been selected as the local host of the national InnovateHER Competition, a business plan pitch-off inviting entrepreneurs to showcase products and services with “a measurable…
Squeezing an A into STEM
Education and workforce development come together Nov. 17 to explore the future world in which science and creativity happily co-exist. Popularly called STEAM, the movement aims to build well-rounded workers…
Teaching to the truth: Nowadays, we’re all in sales
By GREGORY ZELLER // It’s a big world getting smaller – one of several critical lessons in the modern marketing classroom. As social media and other online avenues regularly smudge…