<span style="color: rgb(94, 94, 94); font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">Blackstone LaunchPad is a national model for fostering entrepreneurship through higher education. Based on a successful program at the </span>[http://www.thelaunchpad.org/ University of Miami]<span style="color: rgb(94, 94, 94); font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">, it encourages entrepreneurial thinking and activity among undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and alumni for the purpose of incubating a new generation of entrepreneurs who will contribute to the economic revitalization of distressed regions.</span>
They hav e have a simple incubation process:
#Pair a student with a coach to develop a business idea
#Blackstone does the networking and provides the student with the proper resources they need
#Blackstone helps bring their product to the market
LaunchPad
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