Ask HN: Which universities provide the best environment for startups? Obviously, Stanford will be at the top. But then what would you have? MIT? Berkeley? Princeton? CMU? Cornell? Caltech? UIUC? UCSB? UCSD? UT Austin? U Michigan? UCLA? USC? As an Australian, the process of choosing which to apply to is much more difficult because I can't ask my classmates/counsellors these questions! |
> Fred Wilson speaking on campus about biotech startups,
> NYU Startup Week, with discussions on raising investment, working at a startup, etc,
> and a hackathon sponsored by hackNY[0], a fellowship for students interested in founding or working at a startup.
NYU is also 10 minutes away from General Assembly[1], possibly the largest tech co-working space in Manhattan.
[1] http://www.generalassemb.ly/
Disclaimer: I'm a grad student at NYU, and I actually chose this program over others because of the startup environment in New York.
The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship has some amazing resources: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/entrepreneurship/
The Booth School of Business has at least 6 Nobel Laureates as professors: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/
The New Venture Challenge (http://research.chicagobooth.edu/nvc/) has launched companies like http://grubhub.com, http://benchprep.com, http://bu.mp, http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/, http://www.prepme.com/, etc.
I know they run incubator-like programs specifically for undergraduates, so that's pretty cool.
I live in Atlanta right now, so feel free to contact me if you're curious about anything. Also, I graduated from the University of Michigan a few months back, so I know a bit about their tech/entrepreneurial culture as well.
There's also this: http://www.vlab.org/
As a disclaimer, I'm not associated with MIT and never attended or even been on their campus so I can't say much other than the above. I come from the Stanford side of things. Although I did attend some VLAB events.