Mark your calendars! e-Fest 2025 dates are announced! ?? Get ready for more innovation and inspiration. ??
e-Fest? - Home of The Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge
高等教育
Minneapolis，MN 541 位关注者
Four Competitions. 25 Undergraduate Teams. Over $215K in Cash Prizes.
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e-Fest? is a 3-day celebration of undergraduate entrepreneurship! It’s more than a business plan competition, this annual event provides students with intentional opportunities for professional development, collaboration with peers, and of course, the opportunity to win substantial cash prizes for their business ventures. Throughout the three day competition, student participate in four competitions for cash prizes totaling $215,000! * Pitch Slam! - One member from each team will give a 90-second elevator pitch on their business venture. * Innovation Challenge - We mix and match all the competitors into new teams of 4-5 students each. Teams will be given a surprise “challenge” and 3 hours to create an innovative solution. * Special Recognition Awards - Two awards are given for business ventures that are mission-driven and can help move the needle in social or global contexts. * The Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge, the business plan competition where teams compete for their share of $125k in cash. e-Fest? is one of the largest undergraduate student business plan competitions in the world. In addition to the competitions, e-Fest? the action packed weekend includes; professional development workshops for students and university advisors and the opportunity to participate in media interviews to promote their business in local media markets. e-Fest? is presented by EIX.org, whose mission is to improve the success rates of new ventures by promoting exceptional entrepreneurship teaching and thought leadership. e-Fest? and EIX.org are philanthropic initiatives of the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation. e-Fest? is hosted and coordinated through the Schulze School of Entrepreneurship, Opus College of Business, University of St Thomas.
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e-Fest? - Home of The Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge的外部链接
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- 高等教育
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- 2-10 人
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- Minneapolis，MN
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- 教育机构
- 创立
- 2017
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- Business Plan Competitions、Pitch Competitions和undergraduate
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We’re at #GCEC2024 at Babson College College and would love to connect! Stop by Olin Hall to chat with Jennifer Gessner, Jessica Cooley, and Billy Mzenga, MA about the cool programming coming up at the University of St. Thomas - Schulze School of Entrepreneurship. e-Fest? - Home of The Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge Development Grants open today! Learn how your school can apply for up to $2,500 to support entrepreneurial programming on your campus and pick out some fun swag! Looking forward to meeting you! #GCEC2024 #EntrepreneurshipEducation #SchulzeSchool
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Development Grants are now open!! Please visit this link to apply: https://lnkd.in/g9Widr5m Funds are limited, all applications are screened for eligibility according to e-Fest rules, and grants are awarded on a first-come, first-served basis, apply now before it's too late!
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Development Grants coming this Friday!! EIX and the Schulze Family Foundation will award up to $125,000 in development grants to institutions to support developing e-Fest teams and/or entrepreneurship related programs and activities. First time grantees will receive $2,500. Schools that received a grant(s) in the past and met grant requirements are eligible for a continuation grant of $1,500. Visit https://lnkd.in/gpcND9s4 to apply starting Friday!
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Congratulations to the Aditya Prabhu and James Duquette from Alure LLC team on winning the Student Division of the Minnesota Cup! It’s so inspiring to see e-Fest alumni continuing their entrepreneurial journey and making a real impact by tackling environmental challenges. We’re proud of everything you've accomplished and can’t wait to see what’s next for your team! Morgan Kerfeld, it must be great having your student team represent at MN Cup! How was the experience this year for everyone? Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship
Post-MN Cup updates! Early in August 2024, Alure LLC was announced as the student division winner in the Minnesota Cup, receiving $25,000! Last week, our team attended the 2024 Minnesota Cup grand finale to pitch for the grand-prize review board as well as showcase our solution at our own booth. We thank you all for your support. It was moving to hear the number of growers who have faced Japanese Beetles in their own backyards in MN and are looking forward to trying new solutions. Additionally within the last week, we are excited to announce Alure as one of several LaunchMN business grant recipients this summer, funded by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED). With this support, we aim to develop a small batch production that will be available for Minnesota growers in the next summer. The list of grant recipients can be found here - in total, MN DEED awarded nearly $583,000 to 21 innovative Minnesota startups:?https://lnkd.in/gVkGTFUK This winter, our team will be active on our newsletter. We'll be launching a blog as well as a revamped website - sharing insights about Japanese Beetles, our visions for the future, as well as tips and tricks to manage these and similar garden pests in the upcoming summers. Stay tuned if you’re interested by signing up for our newsletter at alurellc.com, where we will also announce updates of our product next summer. Thank you all for a very successful year so far!
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This looks like an incredible opportunity! Speaking of space entrepreneurship David Townsend from EIX | Entrepreneur & Innovation Exchange co-wrote a great article on the possibilities of space entrepreneurship with Ken Davidian, which is a fantastic resource for anyone in the field. Definitely worth checking out if you're passionate about space innovation! https://lnkd.in/gQiCnX_q For any space-focused student startups attending, don’t forget to apply to e-Fest! It's a great platform for entrepreneurial undergraduate students to showcase their ideas and get support to launch. Would love to see some space tech startups in the mix!
Are you an entrepreneur, researcher, student in higher education, or business owner? ?? Learn more about NASA’s Technology Transfer program at the upcoming in-person event, Down to Earth, Ready to Launch: Fueling Startups with NASA Tech! This is a free, two-day event from October 16-17 in Virginia to help participants learn about NASA’s Technology Transfer program, NASA patented technologies, and how to partner with NASA. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from expert inventors, collaborate with teams, and even “pitch their own” ideas to a panel of experts! Learn more and register online: https://lnkd.in/gcx3zd5Y
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Congratulations to Max Minakov and the team at Nivoso on their launch! It’s been incredible to watch their journey since e-Fest, where their idea really made an impact. We’re so proud of everything they’ve accomplished, and it’s exciting to see it all coming together—just in time for the snow to start falling here in Minnesota! Keep up the amazing work, Max Minakov! Can’t wait to see VOVA in action!
Robots are beginning to move out of the Nivoso Shed and into the real world! Our newest model - VOVA - First Nivoso Commercial Robot Stand by Nivoso BETA Minnesota Cup e-Fest? - Home of The Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management Y Combinator check it out! 01000100 01101001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110011 01101000 01101111 01110110 01100101 01101100
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Congratulations, Vienna Sparks and Skye Lam! Being named to BostInno’s 25 Under 25 is such an amazing accomplishment! It’s been incredible watching MabLab grow since being crowned Grand Champion of e-Fest 2024! Congrats again to both of you for all your hard work—you’ve truly earned this recognition. We’re excited to see how MabLab continues to make a real impact in the world and can’t wait to see what’s next for you and the other honorees!
I am excited to announce that I have been selected for the 2024 BostInno’s 25 Under 25 list! A huge thank you to the?Boston Business Journal?for recognizing the work we are doing at?MabLab?and for highlighting our journey. It is an exciting time for our startup, and this recognition means the world to us. I would also like to give a big shoutout to my fellow 2024 honorees: Skye Lam,?Jessica Angeles,?Jasmine Bacchus,?Rob Baldoni,?Ford Cousin,?Hugo Eechaute,?Matheus Fonseca, Ahmed Ibreljic,?Nuno Mestre,?Agrim Mithal,?Spencer Park,?Brynne Norquist,?Julia Pangan,?Jason Plant,?Surya Sai Brahmendra Ramoju,?Logan Reilly,?Chloe Samaha,?Jeurys Santiago,?Riya Shukla,?Evan Smith,?Naomi Rajput,?David Thompson,?Shirley Wang,?Sydney Wiredu,?Anastacia Yefimenko It is incredibly inspiring to be in the presence of many wonderful world innovators based right here in the Boston ecosystem. I can't wait to see what the future holds for everyone! #MabLab #Boston #Healthcare #Startup #Founder #25u25 #Innovation
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Join us in celebrating Fetal Therapy Technologies, who have been selected as finalists! After their outstanding success at e-Fest 2024, they continue to shine with their mission to improve the lives of women and children. Their journey is truly inspiring, and they need our help to keep the momentum going! Special thanks to Lisa Shannon, one of the championship judges, for recognizing their potential. Working with this team has been a pleasure! Shoutout to their dedicated team, advisor - Sephora Saint-Armand, and the amazing support from Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures (JHTV). Let’s keep voting and spreading the word—every vote counts!
Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University & Founder of StetPulse LLC and Fetal Therapy Technologies
I am thrilled to announce that my team Fetal Therapy Technologies?has been selected as a finalist for the National Inventors Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition this year! This is an incredible opportunity for us, and part of the competition involves a voting-based Crowd Choice Award. Winning this award would provide us with a fast-track USPTO patent application, which would be a tremendous boost for us as we are working towards a full utility patent this year. You can go to this link, click “vote now” and select “FetalCare Port System - Reducing risks in fetal surgeries from Johns Hopkins University” https://lnkd.in/eiVuAkZn We would be incredibly grateful if you could take a few seconds to vote for us. You can vote for our team EVERY DAY until October 16th at 5:00pm so every vote counts! If you'd mind circulating this around your networks and reposting to help us get some more votes I would be eternally grateful! ?? A huge shoutout to my Fetal Therapy Technologies team Eric McAlexander, Mariah Snelson, Gloria Kalnitskaya, Ayeeshi Poosarla, Alice Yu, Daniel Lewis, Jonathan Wu and to the incredible team of fetal surgeons and staff at the Johns Hopkins Hospital Center for Fetal Therapy: Dr. Ahmet Baschat, Dr. Jena Miller, Dr. Michelle Kush, Dr. Mara Rosner, Dr. Geoffrey Miller, Ashley Ostrega, Denise Wolfson, Camille Shantz A big thank you to our mentors at the Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures (JHTV) Pava Center for Entrepreneurship for their continued support and guidance Josh Ambrose, Sephora Saint-Armand, Paul Davidson, Christina DeMur, Stewart Neifert, Leigh A Penfield, Helen Montag, Jack Fischer, Shreen Ghaleb, MBA, Golnoosh Kamali Also a huge thank you to our amazing faculty at the Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering department Dr. Elizabeth Logsdon, Michelle Zwernemann, Dr. Jess (Nesmith) Dunleavey, Dr. Constanza Miranda, PhD and our faculty at the Johns Hopkins Center for Bioengineering Innovation & Design: Dr. Soumyadipta Acharya, Dr. Youseph Yazdi, Dr. April Zambelli-Weiner, Ph.D., Dr. Kunal Parikh And to some awesome organizations who have supported us along the way: TiE DC, e-Fest? - Home of The Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge, Maryland Department of Commerce Thank you again for all of your mentorship and guidance! None of this would be possible without all of your support :)
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