Yearlong opportunity for 30 students in teams of 6 (CS, EE, Business, Industrial Design, MechE, and one other major) to learn principles of innovation and create a business. $2K in scholarship and $8K in angel funding is provided.
Taught by Kickstart team. Concepts and skills of entrepreneurship, emphasizing how new and emerging companies are financed. Applying functional tools to case situations.
Students will learn how PE and VC markets function and how PE and VC companies source their deals. Exposure to examples of real-life transactions executed by PE and VC firms.
They help student entrepreneurs creating socially-minded businesses receive up to $18K in funding through idea validation, product development, and business model transformation