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= Overview =
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium; text-align: right">Blackstone is a global alternative investment firm established in 1985. Blackstone currently has $230 billion in assets, 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>
= Distinct Differences From Other Offerings =
<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 of that come with being a leading global venture capital firm.</span></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-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Blackstone also has a number of Organizational Grantsorganizational grants, funding the growth of entrepreneurship across the country. Many of these organizations either promote entrepreneurial action, provide funding and support for existing entrepreneurs, or educate students about entrepreneurship. </span></span>
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