The Blackstone LaunchPad at Syracuse University is pleased to present ‘Cuse Tank as a featured event during Family Weekend. Join us Friday afternoon, October 8! What: Cuse Tank student startup prize competition sponsored by the Blackstone LaunchPad at Syracuse University Libraries as part of Family Weekend. The event features top student ventures pitching to parent…
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…
The Syracuse University Innovation Law Center + New York State Science & Technology Law Center (NYS STLC) is partnering again with the LaunchPad to host office hours for innovators and inventors interested in commercializing their ideas. Need help with how to protect ideas or creative works by understanding the basics of patents, trademarks and copyrights,…
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…
Register Here The LaunchPad Ideas Competition is designed to provide students with early-stage ideas to compete for cash prizes! More importantly, participating students will gain access to the LaunchPad program on their campus, to get the support on their entrepreneurship journey and skill-building. This signature program supports LaunchPad’s goal in de-risking entrepreneurship, broadening accessibility, and diversifying engagement…
Who is the top founder on campus? A team of celebrity LaunchPad alumni judges, led by Josh Aviv ’15 G’17, Shark Tank million-dollar prize winner and founder of SparkCharge, will award the Founders Cup trophy, along with a $5,000 grand prize. It’s all part of Orange Central Weekend. As the LaunchPad celebrates its 5th year,…
Jared Sorin, a partner with McCarter & English, will host a workshop “Startup Legal 101” for members of the Syracuse University Blackstone LaunchPad at 4 p.m. on Tuesday November 2. The conversation will cover topics of importance to all ventures and startup founding teams, including picking the right legal entity, founder equity and vesting, equitizing…
The Syracuse University Innovation Law Center + New York State Science & Technology Law Center (NYS STLC) is partnering again with the LaunchPad to host office hours for innovators and inventors interested in commercializing their ideas. Need help with how to protect ideas or creative works by understanding the basics of patents, trademarks and copyrights,…
Jared Sorin, a partner with McCarter & English, will host legal info office hours for members of the Syracuse University Blackstone LaunchPad. It will be a chance to ask questions specifically related to your venture about topics such as picking the right legal entity, founder equity and vesting, equitizing employees and consultants, protecting your idea,…
Women hold just 10.9% of leadership positions in the world’s 500 largest companies. In companies across the U.S. they hold only 21% of leadership positions across all companies. When women make up half the population and nearly half the workforce, why do we still see stagnation in equality of opportunity and professional growth for women?…
The Impact Prize is open to Syracuse University and State University of New York Environmental Science and Forestry students taking entrepreneurship classes at the University and working on ventures that create a social impact. Impact Prize competing companies are practical, innovative, and sustainable solutions to societal problems anywhere around the world. Some solutions have touched…
The Syracuse University Innovation Law Center + New York State Science & Technology Law Center (NYS STLC) is partnering again with the LaunchPad to host office hours for innovators and inventors interested in commercializing their ideas. Need help with how to protect ideas or creative works by understanding the basics of patents, trademarks and copyrights,…