Wiggins Featured in the Wall Street Journal and The Deal Magazine
Jun 09 2010
Prof. Chris Wiggins was recently featured in the articles:
"Steering Grads to Start-Ups" by Shira Ovide in the Wall Street Journal and
"Mecca on the Hudson" by Mary Kathleen Flynn in The Deal Magazine.
Both articles highlight his work with HackNY.org - a sustainable, repeatable summer program matching computationally and quantitatively expert NYC students with NYC startups, to:
- Assist in funding student summer internships
- Provide pedagogical lectures to develop needed skills which are not obtained in traditional curricula
- Establish a community of NYC tech/entrepreneurship-oriented students
- Strengthen the community of NYC tech-oriented startups
- Strengthen the entrepreneurial community in NYC more generally
- Facilitate quantitative and computational students securing entrepreneurial opportunities post-graduation