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= <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:xx-large;">Student Entrepreneurship&nbsp;</span></span> =
<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">Michigan Tech offers students a growing variety of resources to student&nbsp;entrepreneurs. These opportunities, while many are the same as past years, are being reorganized and streamlined under the Husky Innovate innitiative, to give a linear path of moving a new idea into a real startup. While some of them are easy to come by, others are more challenging for students to find. A few of the top resources are listed below:&nbsp;</span></span></span>
*<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''Bob Mark Elevator Idea Pitch Competition: '''The Bob Mark memorial elevator pitch competition was competitionis designed to encourage student&nbsp;entrepreneurship at Michigan Tech. The competition brings in over 30 aspiring small businesses innovative ideas together to present their idea in three two minutes to over 150 audience members.&nbsp;</span></span></span>
*<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">'''New Venture Competition:''' The New Venture Competition is a joint partnership between Michigan Tech and Central Michigan University where startups get business plan feedback, mentorship, and an opportunity to win over $30,000 for their new idea.&nbsp;</span></span></span>
*<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">'''Accelerate Michigan:&nbsp;'''Accelerate Michigan is a pitch competition held annually in the fall.&nbsp;</span></span><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">It has a branch for students where 27 teams are selected as semi-finalists to compete at the Cobo Center in Detroit for a chance at $20,000.</span></span></span>*<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Rice Bob Mark Business Plan Model Competiton:&nbsp;'''The Rice Business Plan Competiton business model competition is located at Rice University in Houston, Texas designed to assess the quality of a new venture pitch as well as the customer discovery process and offers sophistication of the potential for over $1,000,000 in minimum viable product. Cash prizes. Michigan Tech may help with travel expenses. At least one graduate student must be on are awarded to the student-majority-led teamfinalists.</span></span></span>*'''Winter WonderHack'''<span style="colorfont-family:#696969verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-familycolor:verdanargb(105,geneva105,sans-serif105);">'''Winter WonderHack''': TechHacks is an event put on by the ACM chapter at Michigan Tech where students are invited to hack on new projects for 24-36 hours. ACM also funds and supports trips to MHacks and Illinois Hacks where students are encouraged to hack on new projects.</span></span></span>
= <span style="font-family:verdana,geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:xx-large;">Faculty Entrepreneurship</span></span> =
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