ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NYC REGIONAL INNOVATION NETWORK

We have created a highly interactive innovation and entrepreneurship consortium of over 25 prominent universities in the Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania area that we term the New York City Regional Innovation Network. Our goal is to leverage our seasoned expertise in mentoring and training start-ups and small businesses (or larger businesses interested in creating new divisions) in the hypothesisdriven customer discovery process. We emphasize an experiential learning process combined with an inverted classroom approach, aligning the companies’ value propositions with each of their customer segments, which is the basis of the technology product-market fit. Our process enables companies to scale their commercialization model into a sustainable and repeatable business. In the long-term, we hope to provide innovators throughout the United States a structured portal for access to the unique NYC-regional mixture of world-class universities, venture capital and other private investment resources, and the nation’s fastest growing technology start-up ecosystem.