Healthcare Social Entrepreneur Fireside Chat

Please join us for a dynamic Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars speaker series focusing on social impact. The series, open to all LaunchPad students, is being offered as part of the Fall 2020 LaunchPad Fellowship program. It will address unique elements required for achieving success with social impact student startups, including leadership, scalability, funding and for-…

Social Impact Funding Landscape Fireside Chat / Panel

Please join us for a dynamic Blackstone LaunchPad & Techstars speaker series focusing on social impact. The series, open to all LaunchPad students, is being offered as part of the Fall 2020 LaunchPad Fellowship program. It will address unique elements required for achieving success with social impact student startups, including leadership, scalability, funding and for-…

Speaker Series: Shark Tank Winner and founder of SparkCharge, Josh Aviv

It’s officially spring in Syracuse and the LaunchPad is excited to invite you to join us for a conversations with dynamic alumni entrepreneurs and other experts in digital marketing, product development, fundraising, community building, sales and customer relationship management.  Each virtual session will be each Tuesday evening at 7 p.m.  The series is open to…

Speaker Series: Founder of Huddle social media platform, Jack Kuveke

It’s officially spring in Syracuse and the LaunchPad is excited to invite you to join us for a conversations with dynamic alumni entrepreneurs and other experts in digital marketing, product development, fundraising, community building, sales and customer relationship management.  Each virtual session will be each Tuesday evening at 7 p.m.  The series is open to…

Speaker Series: Founder of MMP Digital, Jordan Fox

It’s officially spring in Syracuse and the LaunchPad is excited to invite you to join us for a conversations with dynamic alumni entrepreneurs and other experts in digital marketing, product development, fundraising, community building, sales and customer relationship management.  Each virtual session will be each Tuesday evening at 7 p.m.  The series is open to…

Speaker Series: Elizabeth Ruscitto, founder of Elizabeth Ruscitto Consulting

It’s officially spring in Syracuse and the LaunchPad is excited to invite you to join us for a conversations with dynamic alumni entrepreneurs and other experts in digital marketing, product development, fundraising, community building, sales and customer relationship management.  Each virtual session will be each Tuesday evening at 7 p.m.  The series is open to…

Startup Social: Jeff Fuchsberg, VP of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at CenterState CEO

Blackstone LaunchPad, first floor, Bird Library 222 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

Join us Friday, September 24 at 3 p.m. for our next Startup Social in the LaunchPad with Jeff Fuchsberg L’10 , Vice President of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at CenterState CEO, the regional engine for business leadership and economic development.  The in-person conversation over pizza will include info on The Tech Garden incubator in Downtown Syracuse,…

Startup Social: Karina Campos, Advisory Design Lead at IBM Z AI

Blackstone LaunchPad, first floor, Bird Library 222 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

Want to learn more about user-driven design research and how AI is shaping product innovation? Join us for a Startup Social in the LaunchPad on Friday, October 1 at 3 p.m. with Karina Campos, Advisory Design Lead, IBM Z AI. Karina joined IBM in January 2018. She graduated from Syracuse University with a degree in Industrial and…

Startup Social: Burt Podbere, CFO at CrowdStrike

Blackstone LaunchPad, first floor, Bird Library 222 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

Want to learn about financing — from scrappy startup, to more than a billion in equity and debt financing, to an IPO? The LaunchPad is thrilled to host an expert on navigating the capital continuum on Friday, October 8 at noon. Join us for an informal pizza lunch in the LaunchPad with Burt Podbere, Chief…

Startup Social: Marcus Cook, Digital Strategist, Co-Founder at The Success Bug

Blackstone LaunchPad, first floor, Bird Library 222 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

The well-planned life is not always the successful life. Though we try to order our college lives into perfection with our four-year academic schedules, stable jobs, and long-term career visions, the truth is that life and its chaos will often find a way to upset our best-laid plans. An important value in achieving success is…

Startup Social: Carter Holland, Market Strategist at GhostRetail

Blackstone LaunchPad, first floor, Bird Library 222 Waverly Ave, Syracuse, NY, United States

Join us for a Startup Social on Friday, October 22 at 3 p.m. in the LaunchPad with a multi-talented serial entrepreneur, Carter Holland. The informal gathering over pizza will be a chance to learn from a performance-driven senior marketing executive with  25+ years of global experience leading companies through aggressive business transformation, brand reinvention, customer…