CORE
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VCs & Accelerators
Current Events
100
CORE stands for...
What is Columbia Organization of Rising Entrepreneurs?
100
This institution provides subsidized space for Columbia alum founders.
What is the Columbia Startup Lab?
100
This person lost a lot of money in the past couple days, and is the CEO of Amazon.
Who is Jeff Bezos?
100
It's a firm that provides startup or growth equity capital and/or loan capital to promising ventures for returns that are higher than market interest rates.
What is Venture Capital?
100
Name three rising/already prominent startup hubs.
(Hint: Global Tech Trek destinations)
What are:
London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Shanghai, SF, NYC, Beijing, Moscow, Bangalore, Singapore, Boston, LA
200
Our Treasurer and Secretary of this year are...
Who is Veronica (Treasurer) and Stanley (Secretary)?
If your event/program requires $$$, please go to Veronica
If your event/program requires communication/if you're looking for minutes, please go to Stahnley
200
This institution focuses on teaching and promoting Human-Centered Design on campus via workshops, events, and partnerships.
What is the Columbia Design Studio?
(It's located in 4th floor of Riverside Church!)
200
This person is the CEO of YouTube
(Just first name is fine)
Who is Susan Wojcicki?
200
Name three accelerators in the US
What are *Almaworks*
YC, TechStars, 500 Startups, Plug and Play, SOSV, IIDF, AngelPad, MassChallenge, etc.
200
This form of electronic cash is "decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user-to-user on the peer-to-peer network without the need for intermediaries."
What is Bitcoin?
It's Bitcoin's 10th birthday!
300
This person is the lead for Enterprises.
Who is Jillian?
(Jillian, tell us about Enterprises!)
300
Name 2 major CORE initiatives that will happen in the spring semester (that you can get involved with!)
What are: Startup Columbia, Columbia Venture Competition, Global Tech Treks, High School initiatives, Designathon
300
CORE's Student Advisor
Who is Marnie Whalen!
We work with her for a lot of things, ranging from Global Tech Treks and high school conference to any large events
300
Name three top VC firms
What are:
IDG Capital, Startup Chile, New Enterprise Associates, Sequoia Capital China, Accel, Y Combinator, ZhenFund, Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners China, Intel Capital, Index Ventures, Tencent Holdings, Insight Venture Partners, Bpifrance, Bessemer Venture Partners, Goldman Sachs, Khosla Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz
300
This software development tool (that probably all CS students use) have recently been acquired by Microsoft for $7.5Bn.
What is Github?
400
This person was one of the beta tester for Club Penguin
Who is Kevin Chu
400
This course, taught by Steve Blank, allows participants to develop a comprehensive business model ready for launch over winter break.
What is the Lean LaunchPad?
https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/entrepreneurship/leanlaunchpad/content/curriculum
400
This person is the CEO of AirBnB
Who is Brian Chesky?
(+Bonus point: what's the current event on AirBnB?)
400
This term describes, "a private company or corporation raises investment capital by offering its stock to the public for the first time."
What is IPO/Initial Public Offering?
400
This "digital career education" platform, founded by Jake Schwartz, Adam Pritzker, Matthew Brimer, and Brad Hargreaves, was recently acquired by the Adecco Group
What is General Assembly ?
500
This OCL has 21 cats
DARIO :0
500
This course is a national program that uses Lean Launchpad methodology and startup-level speed to tackle problems sourced from the U.S. government.
What is Hacking for Defense?
500
Whomst he 
Who is Chris McGarry, "Senior Director for Entrepreneurship in the University Office of Alumni and Development"
We work with him and Columbia Entrepreneurship extensively for Startup Columbia
Honored as a slack emoji
500
Name 3 ways you can get involved with the VC/accelerator spaces as a student.
What are:
*Almaworks*, Rough Draft Ventures (RDV), Dorm Room Fund (DRF), Sequoia: Campus Ambassadors Program, KPCB: Campus Catalysts, Greylock X, Binary Capital: External Council*, The Mochary Group, Pejman Mar Ventures, Chicago Ventures, Lightbank, Alsop-Louie Partners, Accel Partners, Lowercase Capital, NEA Fellowship
500
Name a notable IPO from 2018.
What is:
Spotify, Docusign, SurveyMonkey, Eventbrite, UpWork, FarFetch
(What are some companies that are looking to IPO soon?)