Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship 2
CORE Facts
Other
100
What is an MVP?
Minimum Viable Product (The most basic product required to solve the problem your startup is focusing on)
100
What is the Columbia University initiative where undergraduates can win money for their startup through a three-rounds competition?
Columbia Venture Competition
100
What is CORE's instagram handle?
@coreatcu
100
True or false: Columbia is one of the five oldest schools in America
False. It is the tenth oldest
200
Name the top 2 best countries for entrepreneurs (based on the Global Entrepreneurship Index)
1. America
2. Switzerland
200
Where the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio is located?
Riverside Church
200
What year was CORE founded?
1998
200
How many children does Elon Musk have?
8
300
What is MRR? How do you calculate it? (must answer both)
(1) Monthly Recurring Revenue - One of the primary metric that startups should focus during early stage. It is the predictable total revenue generated by your business from all the active subscriptions in a particular month
(2) MRR = (#of active accounts) x ARPU (average revenue per user)
300
Which is the $ amount of reported acquisitions of Columbia startups in the last 5 years?
a) $108B
b) $321B
c) $99B
d) $168B
e) $201B
C: $99 billion
300
Which is not a past Tech Treks destination?
(1) Brazil (2) Amsterdam (3) Berlin (4) Seattle (5) Switzerland (6) San Francisco (7) San Jose
2: Amsterdam
300
How many stops are on the 1 train?
38
400
Name 2 of the 5 most valuable unicorn companies in the world: (a unicorn is a privately held startup company valued at over US$1 billion)
1. ByteDance
2. Ant Group
3. Space X
4. Shein
5. Stripe
400
Which two were not founded by a Columbia alum: (1) Figma (2) Refinery 29 (3) StubHub (4) Zocdoc (5) Pinterest (6) Buzzfeed (7) GroupMe (8) Shutterstock
1. Figma
2. StubHub
400
Who of the following has CORE not hosted? (1) Arlan Hamilton, Backstage Capital (2) Barbara Dalton, Pfizer Ventures (3) Andrew Yang (4) Eric Hsu, Thrive Capital (5) Sal Khan, Khan Academy (6) Eduardo Medina, BetterUp
4: Eric Hsu, Thrive Capital
400
How much did Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh Balwani take from shareholders "while advertising a false product"?
$700 million