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= Overview =
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; text-align: right">Blackstone is the world's largest alternative asset investment firm founded by Stephen A. Schwarzman and Peter George Peterson in 1985. Blackstone currently has $311 billion in assets under management, and released an initial public offering in 2007. From its own description:</span>
<blockquote><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:medium"><span style="color: rgb(94, 94, 94); line-height: 17px">"Blackstone is the world’s largest independent alternative asset manager, serving the investment needs of leading </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(94, 94, 94); line-height: 17px; font-size: medium; font-family: georgia, serif">public pension funds, academic and charitable institutions and other investors for more than 25 years. Our funds include private equity funds, real estate funds, customized hedge fund solution funds, credit-oriented funds and publicly traded closed-end mutual funds. In addition, we provide investment advice and management services to institutional investors through a variety of separately managed accounts. "</span></blockquote>
= <span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Distinct Differences From Other Offerings</span> =
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">''Blackstone LaunchPad'' is a unique resource for Universities because very few campus incubators are run by external resources. Typically, these incubators are somewhat limited to an alumni network and the resources they have to offer, where as ''Blackstone LaunchPad'' has a very diverse collection of Entrepreneurial Masters to educate, coach, and connect students with the rest of the entrepreneurial world. ''LaunchPad'' offers the networking and resources that come with being a leading global venture capital firm. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;">One of the unique opportunities that the organization provides entrepreneurs is a 1-on-1 coaching model that begins with peer-to-peer and executive director or program director mentorship. As the entreprenuer's business model makes more traction, subject matter experts and other professionals are contacted to assist with mentoring.</span>
<span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">One huge advantage to using ''Blackstone Launchpad'' as a resourse rather than one's university incubator is that the risk of a technology transfer, or the act of universities providing campus resources to students with the intentions of claiming ownership to intellectual property designed by students, is eliminated. </span></span>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">'''Fever Smart - '''A Penn and Wharton collaboration, non-invasive fever monitoring technology: Fever Smart, won $10,000 at the first "Rise Above the Rest" student speed pitch competition.</span></span>
<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:medium">'''[https://www.roarforgood.com/ Roar for Good ] - '''Wearable self-defense technologhy "Roar for Good" raised over $260,000 on Kickstarter, receiving more than 4,000 orders from 47 countries around the world. "Roar for Good" will also compete for a $70,000 grand prize at the SBA InnovateHer Challenge Competition in March.</span></span>
<span style="font-size: medium; font-family: georgia, serif">...and more! Click [https://blackstonelaunchpad.org/ here ]for more recent success stories.</span>
*UCLA
*USC
*Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Connecticut'''</span></span>
*Trinity College
*Wayne State University
'''<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">'''Ohio'''New York</span></span>'''
*Kent State Cornell University*Lorain County Community CollegeNew York University*Syracuse University*Baldwin Wallace Universityat Albany*Case Western Reserve Universityat Buffalo
*University City Science Center
*Philadelphia University
'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">South Carolina</span></span>'''
*'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span>'''University of South Carolina
'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Texas</span></span>'''
*'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span>'''Texas A&M
*University of Texas at Austin
*University of Texas at Dallas
'''<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Ireland</span></span>'''
*NUI Galway Students' Union
*University College Cork
If your inquiry is associated with your desire for a position at The Blackstone Group, please visit the [http://blackstone.com/cps/rde/xchg/bxcom/hs/careers.htm Careers] page.
= Contributors = [[Kyle Kopecky|Kyle Kopecky]] [[Evan Robertson|Evan Robertson]] [[RebeccaAbbott-McCune|Rebecca Abbott-McCune]] [[Category:ResourcesOrganizations]]