Wright Señeres, Princeton Entrepreneurship Council
March 12, 2021 12:24 p.m.
Princeton graduate student Jeff Phaneuf took this photo of his friend during an Adventurelist exploration in Sedona, Arizona. Adventurelist is a two-sided marketplace for guided adventure sports, and the startup recently won a pitch competition during the first Princeton Startup Bootcamp held virtually this January. Teams of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers forged and strengthened entrepreneurial ventures during the bootcamp as part of a new Princeton Innovation program.
Photo by Jeff Phaneuf
Over an action-packed three days in January, ten teams of Princeton graduate students and postdoctoral researchers forged and strengthened entrepreneurial ventures through the newly created Princeton Startup Bootcamp, led by startup accelerator firm Techstars and organized by Princeton Innovation.
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A panel of New Jersey university entrepreneurship leaders gave advice to startups and small businesses on how to survive the challenges brought on by the pandemic. The group was brought together on January 8 by James Barrood, former president and CEO of the New Jersey Tech Council (New Brunswick) and now an adviser to Tech Council Ventures (Summit).
But, first, several of the university entrepreneurship experts reflected on where entrepreneurship stands today.
While there is a lot of hurt out there, digital businesses seem to have overcome the issues that arose during the pandemic, said Susan Scherreik, director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, at Seton Hall University’s Stillman School of Business.