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Business Hive in the Heights

Last week the Yeshiva University Innovation Lab hosted its inaugural “B”usiness Hive in the Heights event.

The gathering in Yeshiva University’s Sky Cafe brought together over 20 small business owners and entrepreneurs from the greater Washington Heights community to network and learn from industry experts about employee recruitment and retention, partnerships and government contracts, marketing, branding, and selling, accessing capital, and business administration and financial management.

Represented industries include government relations, food, finance and tech.

“I attended in representation of DWDC - Dominican Women’s Development Center. I’m the Economic Development Program Director,” said Ysabel Abreu. “This event was great and very necessary. This was a great opportunity to bring together different sectors and stakeholders to talk about the challenges and the potential that exist in Norther Manhattan for support of existent and prospective small businesses and entrepreneurs. This was an opportunity to build coalition and foster local partnerships that can strengthen the economic ecosystem of Washington Heights by engaging government representatives and institutions like YU. I hope that these Hive activities continue and that advocacy can help us in place making, affecting policy, and creating more equitable community wealth.”

YU’s President Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman also came to greet the guests, mingle, and learn about their businesses.

Julia Bakhitova, a Digital Marketing and Media graduate student in YU’s Katz School of Science and Health said, “I came with my partner, Richie (Katz, Data Analytics and Visualization ‘24), to learn more about how we can continue to help the start up we’ve been working with for our Katz class and we were able to learn important tactics related to strategy and marketing that we didn’t know before. We’re excited to bring this knowledge and skillset back to our start up founders.”

The YU Innovation Lab, Sy Syms School of Business and Yeshiva University look forward to working with these incredible entrepreneurs to help grow their various businesses.

Photos from Business Hive in the Heights

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From The Heights Podcast

It's out! - the second episode in our podcast series From the Heights has dropped and it's not to be missed. From The Heights series host Amit Tobolsky visits with The Innovation Lab's Director of Consulting and resident provocateur Thom Kennon to explore a range of hot topics. Issues like the social economics of startups, a new kind of natural influencer marketing and how to practice better capitalism itself.

Stream Episode 2 - Thom Kennon - From The Heights 

Contact innovationlab@yu.edu for more information.  Follow us on our social media accounts here

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