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ESA Newsletter | New Year, New Opportunities! | Jan 23

Naeem Turner-Bandele - Friday, August 23, 2024
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ESA Newsletter

Happy New Year, and welcome back! Here's your first ESA newsletter of 2024, filled with new opportunities you want to take advantage of. Start by looking at This Week's Launchpad, which contains the must-read news, opportunities, and events. Have a great week!

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  This Week's Launchpad
News & Events You Can't Miss

WILL-V Wants an MBA Intern

 
WILL-V seeks to elevate performance and well-being by optimizing the power of the mind and body. They sell high-end athletic wear. You can learn more about the company by checking out their overview deck.

WILL-V is looking for an MBA intern with the following desired qualifications:
  • experience in marketing & advertising to a fashion audience
  • experience in marketing & advertising to a luxury audience
  • experience with social media marketing & advertising
  • anybody that can offer experience (even outside of marketing & advertising) and excitement about helping to grow a young brand
  • anybody with a background in sports/athletics would be a plus but certainly not a requirement!
Contact Greg Vetrano at gv@will-v.com for more information.

Harbor Street Capital Spring 2024 Private Equity Internship Program

 
Harbor Street Capital (“HSC”) is a private investment firm dedicated to identifying, acquiring, and operating established private businesses in the United States with an enterprise value between $20M - $50M. HSC is looking for an unpaid private equity intern for spring 2024. The firm's Managing Partners hold MBAs from NYU Stern and UVA Darden.

Interns will work closely with the Managing Partners on all aspects of operations including deal sourcing and origination, evaluation of investment opportunities, due diligence, and execution of a potential deal. Key responsibilities may include:
  • Partnering with the firm’s leadership to develop and execute investment theses
  • Researching and identifying attractive industries
  • Analyzing target companies and drafting emails for business owners
  • Performing due diligence for target companies
While the position is unpaid, the position also includes an educational program with:
  • Direct access to the Managing Partners at HSC via weekly meetings
  • Orientation to discuss HSC’s investment process and philosophy
  • Bi-monthly educational sessions on financial modeling and analysis, valuation, M&A, and more
  • Help on all aspects of recruiting including networking, mock interviewing, and resume review
Interns are encouraged to seek school fellowships and/or course credit, if possible.

Desired Qualifications
  • Proactive and self-motivated individual with an entrepreneurial mindset
  • Excellent communications skills and ability to write professional emails
  • Strong and proven interest in private equity, investment banking, M&A, and entrepreneurship
  • Genuine curiosity for how businesses work and a tenacious attitude towards research
Contact Alejandro Alvarez at alejandro@harborstreetcapital.com for more information or apply below.
Apply Today

Global Future Forum

Sat, Jan 27 | 8 am - 6 pm | Harvard Club
The Global Future Forum, hosted jointly by the World Salon and the Columbia Global Dialogue Club, will take place in NYC on Jan 27th (Sat) at the Harvard Club.

This is a unique opportunity to expand your network and connect with McKinsey senior partners, BoA directors, leading AI researchers, and more! The full day event will feature distinguished speakers from industry, government, and academia to deliver actionable insights on pivotal issues in global macro economy, public health, ESG, and technology.

The Forum offers insightful panel discussions followed by in-depth networking sessions. Panel tickets are available for purchase starting from $79. Students can enter STERN2024 at check-out and enjoy 10% off on the order.

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Become a Founding Leader of YEP!

Young Entrepreneurs Program (YEP!) is looking for students at NYU to become a founder and start a YEP @ NYU chapter. YEP! is an entirely free entrepreneurship program for students from underresourced communities hosted at universities throughout the world. They currently have chapters at Brown, Yale, UC Berkeley, UCLA, and UNSW in Sydney, Australia. YEP!'s mission is to create the next generation of entrepreneurs and expose high school students to university campuses, real-world opportunities, and lifelong mentorship. YEP! is currently looking for founding leaders for their NYU chapter. If interested, please email info@yepprogram.org or lana_nguyen@brown.edu.
AV Startup School - Health and Bio

AV Startup School: Health & Bio

Start Date: Tues, Feb 13 @ 4:30-5:30 pm ET.
Session Dates: 2/13, 2/20, 2/27, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19
Are you considering starting a company in Health or Bio and are a Ph.D., MD, MBA, engineer, product manager, or technical graduate? Have you recently started a company in Health or Bio but have raised less than 500K? If any of the above applies to you, then join Arkitekt Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm, for a 6-week course where you'll learn to (1) turn your idea into an MVP, (2) Set up your business model and commercial strategy, (3) create an effective pitch deck, (4) ​Successfully raise a VC round (5), avoid the costly but common early-stage mistakes, ​and much more!

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Career Opportunities

Fresh Opportunities

 

Full-time

💥  Various Roles @ Crux
Crux, a clean energy finance startup, is looking for a Market & Transactions Principal, a Buyer-Focused Markets & Transactions Principal,  and a Senior Manager of Markets & Transactions.

💥  Deployment Strategists @ Air Space Intelligence
Air Space Intelligence, an aerospace and defense software company, is looking for a Deployment Strategist (Commercial) and a Deployment Strategist (US Government).

💥  Various Roles @ Quantum Machines
Quantum Machines, a quantum computing company, is looking for a Sales Development Representative and a Scientific Business Development Manager. 

💥  Various Roles @ Oleria Security
Oleria Security, an enterprise cybersecurity startup, is looking for a Product Marketing Lead, Account Executive, and Technical Account Manager.

💥  Head of Sales @ SmartLabs
Oleria Security, an enterprise cybersecurity startup, is looking for a Head of Sales to identify opportunities for client expansion and drive the increase in SmartLabs’ market share.

💥  Marketing Roles @ Quantinuum
Quantinuum, a Honeywell quantum computing company, is looking for a VP of Marketing and a Marketing & Communication Manager.

Part-time or Internships

💥 Marketing & Events Intern @ Crux

Crux, a clean energy finance startup, is looking for a Marketing & Events Intern to help build brand awareness for their platform and scale their network of clean energy developers, buyers, and intermediaries. 

 

💥  Product Management Intern @ Raptor Maps

Raptor Maps, a solar power management software company, is looking for a Summer 2024 Product Management Intern.

In Case You Missed It

💥 NYU Leslie eLab Startup Coaching & Mentortship

Got an idea for a new venture? Need help scaling your startup operations? Don't know where to start? Get one-on-one or group coaching from startup experts at the Entrepreneurial Institute. All students, researchers, faculty, and staff—regardless of area of study, experience, discipline, or NYU school affiliation are eligible to participate.

Schedule an appointment with a Startup Coach today!

💥 FounderWay

FounderWay is excited to be working with the NYU ESA group! We use our proprietary workflow to save new and experienced founders time by guiding them from idea to first customer and empowering them with instant feedback and organization through our personalized A.I. tools, smart tools, and your very own A.I. business copilot. Our users often tell us we helped them find and fix their blind spots. Stern students will get one month free on the platform with the following promo code (NYUESA1M) at www.FounderWay.ai.

💥 Stern Venture Fellows

The Stern Venture Fellows (SVF) program supports NYU Stern's high-potential entrepreneurs in advancing their ventures over a customized summer program. Fellows will spend ten weeks, full-time, developing their startup ideas and nascent businesses with the guidance and support of NYU Stern's faculty & staff, alumni, and bi-coastal mentor community. Click here to learn more about resources and opportunities.
 

💥 NYU Berkley Center Startup Advising

Whether you're just starting with an idea, have a project ready for launch, or just want to learn more about the resources offered through the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship, this session will answer your questions and help guide you down the right path. Click here for an appointment.

💥 Join the NYU Venture Capital Community on Slack - we're partnering with V.C.s from around NYC to ignite the NYU network in the industry and migrate over 2000 members from LinkedIn to Slack. Join the community on Slack where you'll find general discussion, deal flow, internship and job opportunities, and NYU alumni.

💥 Join Thunder.vc - a network for founders, investors, and L.P.s
Become an early adopter of Thunder.vc, a platform that matches investors, founders, and L.P.s in a controlled way. If you're interested in fundraising for your company, ramping up your angel investing, or sourcing deals for your V.C. firm, hop into this community. Check it out at Thunder.vc and claim your handle.

💥 Join the 2024 Cohort @ Nucleate 
Nucleate empowers tomorrow's biotech leaders by providing today's academic trainees with the education and tools they need to translate their research into commercial ventures. Since 2019, they have supported over 200 founder-led biotech companies, including Manifold Bio, Concerto Bio, Beacon Biomimetic, EnPlusOne Bio, and others! This year, Nucleate NY is led by Columbia, CUNY, NYU, Princeton, Rockefeller, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and Weill Cornell students. Learn more here!

💥 Join a Startup Showcase @ The ORCA Network 
Investors actively seeking early-stage investment opportunities will review startups from this showcase every other week on an ongoing basis. The current application is for next week's showcase cohort. This portal will always remain open, so if you miss this week, you can apply next week for another opportunity to get investors' eyes on your startup. While reviewing, investors can reach out directly to set up a meeting, so keep an eye on your email inbox! More info here!

💥 Dorm Room Fund 
Are you looking to be a founder, or do you know someone at your school Dorm Room Fund should meet? Encourage them to apply for DRF funding.

 ABOUT ESA

This newsletter is hand-curated by the ESA Board. We are a team of tech operators, investors, founders, startup watchers, and technology enthusiasts. We love helping Sternies find opportunities in early-stage tech & startups on and off campus. If we can be helpful to you, drop us a line.

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