Lisbeth Kaufman

Lisbeth Kaufman

New York, New York, United States
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I'm an entrepreneur with expertise in marketplaces, climate tech, creators/artists…

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Experience

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    Amazon Web Services (AWS)

    New York, New York, United States

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    New York, New York, United States

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    New York, New York, United States

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    Greater New York City Area

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    New York City Metropolitan Area

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    Greater New York City Area

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    Greater New York City Area

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Washington D.C. Metro Area

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    Shanghai City, China

Education

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    Yale University

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    Activities and Societies: 3-time winner of Light Fellowship, Charles Kao Fellowship for study of technology in Asia recipient, St. Anthony Hall, Women and Youth Support Eachother (WYSE), Viewfinder Photojournalism Magazine, Co-Ed Squash Club

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    Dean's Scholarship Recipient: full tuition two-year merit scholarship
    750 GMAT score, 98 percentile

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Volunteer Experience

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    Mentor

    NYU Entrepreneurial Institute

    - Present 5 years 7 months

    Science and Technology

    Startup mentor at the NYU Summer Launchpad, mentoring a company intensively over the summer months. Summer Launchpad provides highly promising early-stage startups the support and resources they need to accelerate their growth and impact.

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    Mentor

    Techstars

    - Present 4 years 6 months

    Science and Technology

    I have mentored at a few Techstars Accelerators, including Techstars Future of Food, Atlanta, and Sustainability.

Publications

  • The Case for Bragging

    Elle

    As the #MeToo movement continues to illuminate how difficult it is to be a woman at work, it's clear that women have to be our own advocates, speaking up about our struggles, but also loudly celebrating our accomplishments. Until we create a culture where women feel they can speak loudly about their accomplishments, we’ll never be able to celebrate these women—or follow their example.

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  • Keeping Virtual Reality Weird

    Video Ink

    We’re still at the dawn of what we’re calling “virtual reality” or immersive content. The VR technologies and creative approaches are so much in flux, that we haven’t quite ironed out what exactly virtual reality really is. This openness allows space for play and experimentation- and essentially- weirdness.

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  • Low-carbon Innovation

    Center for American Progress

    60-page study on four different types of stakeholders in energy innovation networks, and how smart 21st century policies can help these networks outperform international competitors while avoiding the pitfalls of traditional "industrial policy."

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  • Cutting the Cost of Clean Energy 1.0

    Center for American Progress

    The paper presents a detailed policy framework for deploying clean energy across the country by transforming the energy marketplace. It focused on three key pillars for a private sector-led investment policy in clean energy:
    1) Financing and other policy incentives to lower the cost of clean energy.
    2) Regulatory reform to create jobs and markets.
    3)New competitive regional infrastructure to ensure sustained economic development.

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Honors & Awards

  • InSITE Fellow and VP of Sourcing- Media and Clean Tech

    InSITE Fellowship

    Founded in 1999, InSITE (insitefellows.org) is a competitive two-year Fellowship program comprised of 150 top graduate students in business, law, engineering, computer science, design and PhD programs from top Universities (NYU, Columbia, Harvard, MIT, Stanford) who provide consulting services for startups.

    Consulting engagement with DogFish Accelerator (http://dogfish.ventures/)

  • Dean's Scholarship Recipient

    NYU Stern School of Business

    Full tuition two-year merit scholarship

  • Forté Fellow

    Forte Foundation

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