Our Story.
Twenty years ago, students at Columbia University came together with the goal of transforming campus into an ecosystem that would support students in bringing their wildest vision into reality. In the years since, CORE has empowered students to engage with entrepreneurship on campus and beyond, providing the community with resources and opportunities to dream big and act bigger.
CORE Values
🏠Keeping Community First. Whether side by side or separated by computer screens, our communities come first. CORE fosters a space to challenge and learn from each other, and ultimately build great relationships.
💛Inclusivity is Everything. Just as there is no singular background or path to becoming a great entrepreneur, CORE welcomes students from all experiences, majors, and interest. We are a home and incubator to all.
🚀Think Big, Act Bigger. Innovation happens when you mix fresh ideas with a drive to make impossible things accomplishable— this attitude inspires us to build projects that impact our local, regional and global communities.
Our Executive Board.
To reach out to CORE’s executive board directly, please email us at coreboard@columbia.edu.
Our Community.
Books We’re Reading: Where Good Ideas Come From, Founders at Work, How to Crack the Funding Code, Trick Mirror, Harry Potter, Normal People, The Vanishing Half, Taming the Sun, Thinking Fast and Slow, Citizen, David and Goliath, Sapiens, Sophie’s World, What I Wish I Knew When I was 20, Steve Jobs.
Things We’re Watching: Godfather, The Nice Guys, White Collar, Hell or High Water, scoping out Quibi, Narcos, Key and Peele, Chasing Coral, Avatar the Last Airbender, Casablanca, Black Mirror, Upload, The Social Network, everything Pixar, Control Z, Goodfellas, Spotlight, Snowpiercer, High Fidelity.
Where We’re Located (at least where Campus is):
