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Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership – Ideas Competition

Flyer for Blackstone LaunchPad Ideas Competition info sessions at 12 PM on October 11 and October 20; details at cel.ucf.edu.Blackstone LaunchPad Ideas Competition offers $1,000 prize; apply by October 21 at cel.ucf.edu. QR code and light bulb graphics are shown.

CEL is offering TWO great opportunities for students across campus to showcase their innovation and startup venture ideas this semester.

  1.  Ideas Competition (deadline 10/21, $4000 in awards): This is our simplest competition. It’s designed to promote engagement in entrepreneurial problem solving and only requires answers to 3-4 substantive questions. Applicants need to describe a problem, a solution, who they are helping (their customer), and how they will earn revenue. You can read more about the event and share the link here – Ideas Competition
  2. Social Venture Competition (deadline 11/6, $5,000 in awards): The Social Venture Competition celebrates and rewards students who have developed solutions intended to impact society’s biggest problems. Social ventures offer products and services like other ventures, but offer a clear, measurable social or environmental “benefit” (learn more and see examples here). This event is higher stakes are requires a more comprehensive venture description.