Business & Tech
LaunchPad Holding Start-Up Workshop for College Students
Mineola business letting college students pitch ideas for new businesses.
Mineola-based business incubator LaunchPad Long Island will be hosting a day-long workshop/ business pitch competition on Saturday, March 9 specifically geared at the college crowd.
The 12-hour event, which will run from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., and is sponsored by CollegeStartup.org, allows college-aged students to compete for a $1,000 cash prize.
The competition involves creating a viable business idea either from scratch or as part of a team consisting of between 3-7 people who will then present that idea in a sales pitch to a panel of business professionals. All attendees do not need to pitch an idea as teams will be formed around the student’s interest in working on start-up concepts.
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Students/ teams will also have access to several business professionals who will act as mentors during their brainstorming sessions.
A total of about 40 students from local universities including Hofstra and the Fashion Institute of Technology have already registered.
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Students have until Friday to sign up for the competition. The fee is $35 per student.
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