3 Day Startup encourages student entrepreneurship
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Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article covers a three-day entrepreneurship program where students developed and pitched startup ideas.
- The News-Letter reported that more than 30 students took part in 3DS, which included entrepreneurship lessons and startup pitches to investors and mentors.
- The paper reported that the April 21–23 event was sponsored by Birchmere Ventures, Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures and the Student Government Association.
- The article says six startup ideas were chosen as finalists: SWAP, VeggieBox, SendIt, BarGo, BAE-O and BarberFleet.
- The reporter writes that participants interviewed potential customers and received advice from mentors; facilitator Jeff Lavine said this process helps show whether ideas are viable.
- The article adds that Selma Ahmed changed BAE-O’s target market after customer research, while Jamie Chen wrote that her team hoped to keep developing its startup over the summer.