LaunchNET Blog: How to Get Your Business Online (and some other useful self-imposed barrier breakers)

Tips for how to get over yourself and Just Do It already.

Workshop Wednesdays: in our office, 3pm every Wed!

TODAY: Build a Website! (Bring your laptop)

Next week: How to Pitch

All The CEO Ladies Networking Mixer: Tue, Sep 20, 2016

All The CEO Ladies Networking Mixer - Tuesday, September 20, 2016, after the regular CEO Ladies meeting. Come meet and mingle with Kent State's ladies who are doing it for themselves! 

7-9pm
Williamson House, Kent

Elevator Pitch and Professional Fair: October 6, 5:30pm

LaunchNET Kent State University presents the 4th annual Elevator Pitch and Professional Fair

Thursday, October 6, 2016 
5:30-8pm
University Library, 4th floor

Pitch yourself or a business idea and you could win! $1000 in prizes! Register to pitch today.

Join the LaunchNET Kent State client directory

Give us a little bit of info in a few minutes, and you'll be "famous" on the LaunchNET website! 

"Dream, Girl" Documentary Screening

Join us for the FREE showing of "Dream, Girl," a documentary film showcasing stories of inspiring and ambitious female entrepreneurs.

Monday, Oct. 24
5:30-8 p.m. 
Akron-Summit County Main Library
60 South High Street in Akron

RSVP for this FREE event by Oct. 17

*If we have enough interest, LaunchNET may be able to arrange transportation, so let us know if you want to go

Intro to Crowdfunding: Thursday, September 15

$15
7:30am - Continental Breakfast​
8:00 - 10:00am - Program

Kent State University at Stark
CONFERENCE CENTER 
6000 Frank Ave NW
North Canton, OH 44720

So you are thinking about Crowdfunding as a way of raising capital but want to know more about it?

[M]SPIRE - MAGNET Competition

[M]SPIRE is a business competition for any entrepreneur or small business in Northeast Ohio with the end goal of growing existing manufacturing companies and sparking the development of new ones.

PITCH U

Burton D. Morgan Foundation presents PITCH U 

Saturday, October 15, 2016
The University of Akron College of Business Administration

$$$ Prizes $$$

iCorps : The University of Akron

iCorps is a 7-week program for tech-based ventures, to learn more about who your target market is. We have had a number of clients go through this NSF-funded series and all rave about it.

Contact Tabitha if you are interested in applying.

Fireside Chats at Hiram College: Wednesdays at Hiram

A lineup of interesting speaker sat Hiram College.

Let us know if you are interested in attending, as we have been invited to participate.

Article: "Lessons for college students from a young professional"

From high school, to college, to first career… we all made mistakes. Here are some lessons from a young professional to the next generation on things she wishes she would have known then, that she knows now.

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