David BenDaniel

Don and Margi Berens Professor of Entrepreneurship
The Johnson School
341 Sage Hall
The Johnson School
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607-255-4220
FAX: 607-254-4590
Email: djb16@cornell.edu
David J. BenDaniel, the Don and Margi Berens Professor of Entrepreneurship in The Johnson School, is the longest-serving professor in the Cornell Entrepreneurship@Cornell Program. BenDaniel was the early faculty leader in developing the design of the university-wide Entrepreneurship@Cornell Program. Recognized in Business Week as one of the top 10 professors in entrepreneurship, BenDaniel teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses each year to over 400 students from across the university. One of his latest achievements is the establishment of the Big Red Venture Fund in 2000, a venture fund run entirely by a select group of MBA's from The Johnson School and viewed as a model by other business schools nationally.

In addition to his educational accomplishments BenDaniel is also credited for having drawn back to Cornell other leading entrepreneurial figures to the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Program, including Rob Ryan, Cornell '69 (Ascend Communications and Entrepreneur America) and John Nesheim MBA '67, author of the best-selling High-Tech Start Up: The Complete How-To Handbook for Creating Successful New High-Tech Companies. Others are Peter Sears, an experienced venture capitalist who teaches Strategic Partnering and Jesse Reyes, Managing Director of Venture Economics, who teaches a course on the venture capital industry and Fred Beste, Managing Partner of Mid Atlantic Ventures who teaches a course on Case Studies in Venture Capital.