Welcome!
Columbia Business Lab (CBL) is a new co-working space and entrepreneurship program for recently graduated Columbia Business School students. As a result of efforts initiated by the Deans Advisory Committee, Columbia Business Lab has been established to provide recently graduated students with a...
BUILDING A STRONG COMMUNITY
If you’ve read our previous blog posts, you already know how fortunate we feel to be residents at the CBL. We are surrounded by friends and fellow entrepreneurs on a daily basis, and we can turn to one another for support as we face the challenges of launching and growing our ventures. While...
CBL – building from strength
The first paragraph of this post was already written by the time I checked out Sage’s post (below) and I realized we were writing about basically the same thing. Right down to the dogs having the best seats. Which I guess just speaks to the importance and uniqueness of the groundswell of...
New York: An Entrepreneur’s Dream
Columbia Business Lab entrepreneurs are in the best of company in our SoHo office. New York, now more than ever, is full of young people pursuing their dreams as hungry entrepreneurs run rampant across the city. The locality of NYC’s tech obsession was evident to me even before we opened CBL. I...
What I will do to Sell you a Sandwich
My name is Andy Jacobi, and all I want to do is sell you a sandwich. Literally, that is all I want to do. I am in the process of starting a sandwich shop called Untamed Sandwiches, serving hearty, hot sandwiches made from sustainable ingredients, and we are currently looking for a location,...
What CBL Means to Me
It can be easy to overlook all of the hard work and attention to detail that go into building a business. Everyday we interact with successful businesses that are ready to serve us with a wide assortment of goods or services, delivered with amazing speed and consistency. Take Starbucks for...