Thursday: BizLaunch Competition 2014 Final Presentations

Venture Development Center will be hosting BizLaunch 2014 presentations on Thursday, May 8th, from 4:30 pm to 6 pm. There will be five teams presenting, and only one will take home the 1st prize of $5,000. Please stop by to cheer up the teams!

Venture Development Center
Wheatley bldg., 3rd floor
Thursday, May 8th
4: 30 pm – 6 pm

If you have any questions please email at vdc@umb.edu

Business Launch Competition Finalist Presentations

Join us for this exciting annual event!  Hear the top student entrepreneurs at UMass Boston describe their business launch, as they compete for $15,000 in prizes!  Find out about the newest, fastest growing ventures on campus, meet the Entrepreneurship Center board, and learn how you can get involved.

BUSINESS LAUNCH COMPETITION FINALIST PRESENTATIONS

 

Fourteen student-based startups have been competing over the last sixty days to show who can make the most progress in launching their start-up. Come and hear the six finalists present!

 

Tuesday, May 7th 4:30-6:00pm Venture Development Center Wheatley Hall, 3rd floor. Get there on time – it will be standing room only!!

 

Prizes Awarded:

1st Prize: $1,500 + $10,000 Value Legal Consulting Package provided by Gunderson Dettmer

3 months access to the Venture Development Center

2nd Prize: $1,000 and 3 months access to the Venture Development Center

3rd Prize:  $500 and 3 months access to the Venture Development Center

 

Judges:

Michael Hacker – Gunderson Dettmer

David McFarlane – TCH Services

Glynn Lloyd – City Fresh Foods, Inc.

 

Questions – email Prof. Benyamin: b.lichtenstein@umb.edu,or vdc@umb.edu

 

Wishing you the best,

The Business Launch Competition Team

April 17: Green Careers Forum!

The Green Careers Forum
Presented by the Center for Sustainable Enterprise and Regional Competitiveness
April 17, 2013 – 3:00 PM-5:30 PM
Campus Center Ballroom 

 This event will showcase the broad range of career opportunities related to sustainability, the environment and clean energy, from accounting and finance to IT and marketing, from economics and policy to science and engineering. It will provide opportunities to interact with companies and organizations active in the green economy.

Confirmed employers include:
CERES
Cone Communications
Conservation Law Foundation
EBI Consulting
EnerNOC
EMC
Ernst & Young
Fraunhofer Center
Free Flow Power
New England Energy Council
New Fields Environmental Forensics
Partners HealthCare
Raytheon
Sustainalytics
Sustainability Roundtable
Trillium

Green-Careers-Forum-April 2013

Business Launch COMPETITION Hosted by the Entrepreneurship Center Alumni Board

Win up to $20K in prizes at the Business Launch COMPETITION
Hosted by the Entrepreneurship Center Alumni Board

Winning first place at last year’s competition set off a chain
of events for Green Lightning Surfboards. They landed a
finalist spot in the Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards,
they were featured in Boston Business Journal and they
closed their first customer sales. So… Where will your business launch take you?

SIGN UP and LAUNCH today! Mentors available to help.  
1st Prize
$2,500 cash + Startup Legal Consulting Package provided by
Goodwin Proctor, LLP, valued at $10,000
12 months access to inbound marketing solution provided by
Hubspot, valued at $6,000
12 months access and support for email marketing solution
provided by Yesware, valued at $1,500
3 months access to the Venture Development Center

2nd Prize
$1,500 and 3 months access to the Venture Development Center

3rd Prize
$1,000 and 3 months access to the Venture Development Center

– Special Startup Banking Consulting Package provided by Silicon
Valley Bank for all Technology-based finalists
-Free training to all finalists for Yesware’s base freeware solution

Competition starts March 1st. Presentations and Awards at the Venture Development Center May 9th
Winners chosen by how much progress is made in 2 months
All UMass Boston students eligible to compete, so apply today!

Email vdc@umb.edu to request an application package

Business Launch Competition

Business Launch Competition at UMass Boston!
– Competition starts March 1st
– Presentations and Awards May 11th
– Winners chosen by how much progress made in 2 months
– You choose how to track your growth!
– All UMass Boston students eligible to apply
– Experienced Entrepreneurs available to Mentor Startups

Get More Information – Apply and Register NOW!
Send an e-mail to: vdc@umb.edu
Other Universities have Business “Plan” Competitions.
At UMass Boston, we have Business “Launch” Competitions.
StEP into the Future and Launch YOUR New Enterprise.

Please direct all inquiries to vdc@umb.edu with subject line “Business Launch Competition” Please visit www.ada.umb.edu for disability