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Are you an entrepreneur? Do you have a great idea? Come join the monthly Entrepreneur’s Club for small bites and discussions based around entrepreneurship and innovation.

Would you like to develop skills to help you think like an entrepreneur? Join the Blackstone LaunchPad team at our next Creator’s Corner, where we discuss critical elements in the mindset of an entrepreneur – a mindset that can be applied to your career and research, whatever they might be!

The Entrepreneurial Mindset Bootcamp (EMB) is a four-week virtual bootcamp to help undergraduate students learn an entrepreneurial approach to work and life. This bootcamp is for both students wanting to start their own businesses and those wanting to cultivate the entrepreneurial skills needed for the modern workforce. Topics include:

Do you have the following skills? - be a current student OR 2021 / 2022 graduate (undergraduate level, graduate level) enrolled at LaunchPad network university. - be a lead founder / co-founder of the venture. - have an existing venture past the idea stage (venture may be for-profit, not-for-profit, Public Benefit Corporation or B-corporation). - be self-motivated and driven to complete work independently and with minimal oversight. If so this may be for you!

The Bridge Venture Fellowship is a 3-week paid learning opportunity for historically excluded* students to learn about venture capital and network with peers and industry professionals. The virtual bootcamp is open to 20 students across the UT System schools and culminates in an in-person recruitment mixer in Austin with Texas-based firms.

First Annual MarMo Pitch Competition Info Session Thu, December 2, 06:00pm - 08:00pm Have questions or need team members? Get a leg up on your competition by attending our info session. Connect with visionaries, innovators, directors, organizers, marketers, and more! Register here!

The Blackstone LaunchPad Ideas Competition was a virtual business plan competition powered by Startup Tree. Designed specifically for students with no prior with experience with entrepreneurship, the Ideas Competition was created so that any student — no matter their major or career plans — could practice the important skills of distilling and presenting a latent idea. All undergraduate and graduate students with an idea, no matter how small, or a prototype, no matter how rough, were invited to apply.