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<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:larger"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial">VentureBoard is an online entrepreneurship platform for students, entrepreneurers, universities, and organizations.&nbsp; It is the basis of Blackstone Launchpad's website, and is also available as a stand-alone product.</span></span><br/></span>

<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:larger"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial">Universities and organizations that adopt VentureBoard are provided with a way to organize advising for students and aspiring (or current) entrepreneurers, as well as provide resources and track the progress and performance of their spin-offs and startups.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:larger"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial">Students and entrepreneurers that use VentureBoard through such an institutuion have access to mentorship opportunities, as well as resources such as a business model canvas, closed discussion boards, a search option to find potential business partners or interested parties, and other contextual resources.&nbsp; Students and entrepreneurers can also express interest in seeking venture capital funding, alerting their mentor and institution so that they can provide potential connections.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:larger"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial">Beyond Blackstone Launchpad, VentureBoard is currently used by University of Maryland, NC State University and Duke University.</span></span></span>

<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:larger"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial">Ventureboard was created by Scott Block, Justin Searles, Avi Eisenberger and Jordan Goldstein, students at the University of Maryland.&nbsp; The platform evolved to fill a gap they perceived in the ability of entreperenurially-minded students at their school to connect with one another to form successful startups.</span></span></span>

 <span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="font-size:larger"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial">More information can be found on VentureBoard's website, at [http://ventureboard.co ventureboard.co].</span></span></span>