Presented By: Center for Entrepreneurship
The Startup competition: Round 2
Student ventures compete to validate customers for their product/service
Join us Friday, February 12 at 12:30 pm in Stamps Auditorium on North Campus for the second round of The Startup.
The Startup is the CFE’s cornerstone competition for undergraduate and graduate students looking to turn a startup idea into a real company. It’s a winner-take-all opportunity for ventures to get visibility, direct one-on-one mentorship with local entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, funding, and bragging rights to be called the next, best startup at Michigan.
This is NOT another pitch competition. We aren’t looking for students who think they are the best right now, we are looking for startup teams with the highest potential to become the best. The Startup makes real entrepreneurs, in real time, by giving teams direct access to mentors who will help them reach important milestones in moving their company forward. On top of close mentorship from local entrepreneurial leaders, students will also receive increased funding as they make it past each round of the competition, and will present in front of CFE’s largest seminar class, Entrepreneurship Hour.
Want to be a part of determining which teams move forward to the next round?
ALL students, faculty, staff and community are welcome! Not only does it “boost” the teams to get audience support during the competition, but you’ll also get to be a part of the judging. This round, the three or four ventures from each mentor will present the progress they've made with the customer challenge: validate a customer for your product or service.
The mentor will pick the top student ventures out of their own group that they think should move forward in the competition. The audience then also gets to which startups make it to round three, resulting in 8 advancing teams.
NOTE: If you are NOT enrolled in Entrepreneurship Hour (ENTR 407) and are attending as a guest, please use the black stairs located in the Stamps Auditorium Lobby to enter the auditorium via the second level.
Students enrolled in the class must enter through either side door to the auditorium on the main level to capture attendance.
The Startup is the CFE’s cornerstone competition for undergraduate and graduate students looking to turn a startup idea into a real company. It’s a winner-take-all opportunity for ventures to get visibility, direct one-on-one mentorship with local entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, funding, and bragging rights to be called the next, best startup at Michigan.
This is NOT another pitch competition. We aren’t looking for students who think they are the best right now, we are looking for startup teams with the highest potential to become the best. The Startup makes real entrepreneurs, in real time, by giving teams direct access to mentors who will help them reach important milestones in moving their company forward. On top of close mentorship from local entrepreneurial leaders, students will also receive increased funding as they make it past each round of the competition, and will present in front of CFE’s largest seminar class, Entrepreneurship Hour.
Want to be a part of determining which teams move forward to the next round?
ALL students, faculty, staff and community are welcome! Not only does it “boost” the teams to get audience support during the competition, but you’ll also get to be a part of the judging. This round, the three or four ventures from each mentor will present the progress they've made with the customer challenge: validate a customer for your product or service.
The mentor will pick the top student ventures out of their own group that they think should move forward in the competition. The audience then also gets to which startups make it to round three, resulting in 8 advancing teams.
NOTE: If you are NOT enrolled in Entrepreneurship Hour (ENTR 407) and are attending as a guest, please use the black stairs located in the Stamps Auditorium Lobby to enter the auditorium via the second level.
Students enrolled in the class must enter through either side door to the auditorium on the main level to capture attendance.
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