Are you a Georgetown University student in the midst of creating your own business, bouncing from coffee spot to coffee spot honing in on the idea you think could inspire a following? If you answered yes to this question, then boy does Georgetown University have the chance of a life time for you.
Georgetown University will be hosting their Georgetown Summer Startup Program, a university sponsored accelerator program designed to help out those students hurriedly scrounging through their couches for pennies to support their coffee-induced brain waves of innovation. With student loans weighing them down, lack of a steady full-time job to support their ventures, students are left without an area to fully explore the business developments they have formed in their heads, ideas kept from the public due to a lack of funds. Georgetown Entrepreneurship wants to solve that problem for students, giving them the resources to design their own enterprises without restraints.
Not only will accepted applicants to the program have free reign to work on their projects of choice, but they will also be granted benefits including: work space in the Rafik B. Hariri Building, an incubator to bounce ideas off of other "hoyapreneurs," mentoring and advising from Entrepreneurs in Residence, the additional credibility of being chosen as a Summer Startup Program Fellow, and the ability to have access to the extended Georgetown Entrepreneurial community.
As the applications filed in, Georgetown was stuck between a rock and a hard place, attempting to configure which aspiring entrepreneurs to support. As an 11 week intensive program over the summer, they had to narrow it down to 15 groups, a very diverse and driven crew of entrepreneur hopefuls.
The recipients of the ultimate award to be a part of this prestigious new incubator are outlined in the powerpoint. Enjoy! These are some pretty brilliant ideas...Wish I had thought of them!
