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LaunchNET News: Summer Edition (Happy July!)

Supporting Kent State founders, innovators, dreamers, and doers

The latest & greatest from LaunchNET Kent State

Cultivating #InnovationMindset across Kent State!

LaunchNET News & Events

LaunchNET office is open this summer!

Summer can be a great time to make some significant headway on your venture.

Advisors are available by appointment all summer long, if you're ready to tackle that website, need to figure out a marketing plan, work on an issue, or just want to bounce some ideas off of someone who gets it.

Reach out to your advisor via email or if you don't have one yet, sign up to join LaunchNET!

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What did you think of Creative Hustle?

I need your help to find out how we can make our Creative Hustle series even better. Please take a minute and fill out the survey!

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LaunchTalks by LaunchNET Kent State

Did you get to listen to all of the episodes of our podcast, LaunchTalks?

It's a great time to catch up with the stories of Kent State founders, entrepreneurs, and innovators.

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LaunchNET Clients

Back KENT FABRICS Kickstarter!

Opening a fabric store in Downtown Kent, Ohio for Kent State Fashion Students and the Kent community called Kent Fabrics!

Support LaunchNET client, Idea Labs/Creative Hustle winner, & Student Startup Scholarship recipient Symone Baskerville and her venture KENT FABRICS

support local biz!

Share your News!

Has your company reached a significant milestone?
Gotten some great press coverage?
Hired an employee? Launched a product? Exhibited at an event?
Need some help??

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Coverage of CEBI Pitch - Congratulations Entrepreneurs!

To a panel of seven executives circled like sharks, seven student-run businesses pitched their ideas for a chance to win $30,000 in cash prizes at the CEBIpitch Competition held at Kent State University.

SO PROUD of our client, Anne Cate, for her big win!

CONGRATS to other LN client finalists:
Fabnetics
OZI
Pop-Out
Vooster

And to Advisory Board member Rob Heiser who served as a judge!

Client company looking for help!

New LaunchNET company Dream The Vision is looking for a videographer & artists to assist with guided group art projects.

Interested? Contact Dreama!

Dream the Vision

LaunchNET Connections: Opportunities & Good Stuff to Know About

Core City: Cleveland Impact Program Applications Are Now Open For Our Fall 2018 Cohort - JumpStart

From barbershops and clothing boutiques to landscaping and consulting businesses, the Core City: Cleveland Impact Program helps entrepreneurs of all experience levels across a wide variety of industries.

North Akron Market – North Akron Community Development Corporation

We’re very excited this year to be working with our fellow organizations; The Exchange House, the Irish Restoration Association (the Hibernians), and Shanti Community Farms, Inc. As part of a…

Ignite! @ IngenuityLabs – Ingenuity Cleveland

Ignite! by IngenuityLabs, a Hamilton Collaborative speaker series, is our new entrepreneurship education series that provides business knowledge and skills to our IngenuityLabs incubator cohort and the wider Cleveland creative community.

Other interesting stuff

Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

The Lemelson-MIT Student Prize honors promising collegiate inventors around the country.

The Student Prize is open to teams of undergraduate students and individual graduate students who have inventions in categories that represent significant sectors of the economy: healthcare, transportation and mobility, food/water and agriculture, and consumer devices.

Resources

Sharing some great startup resources across the web!