“But it works on my machine!” That is an excuse too often overheard in conversations between developers and operations teams. Even with sophisticated tooling, virtually unlimited computing capacity in the cloud, and advanced continuous integration workflows, the differences between developing applications locally and running them in production remains a persistent source of bugs and other problems.
The on campus entrepreneurship program, Blackstone Launchpad, is coming to five universities across New York State including Cornell and NYU. The program will provide professional mentoring from network of venture coaches to any student from all five universities across all faculties to encourage the students to create their own startups.