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Brook T. Smith Launchpad

About

Our Five Engines

Content

Create, deliver, support and sponsor entrepreneurial content, including seminars, 1:1 mentoring, fireside chats, curriculum, certificate programs, job fairs, internships, conferences, study tours, summer camps, surveys and case studies.

Collisions

Provide a welcoming physical space, vibrant events and exemplary digital platforms enabling like-minded students, faculty, staff, alumni, visiting scholars, investors and community members to meet, know and help each other.

Collaborations

Provide a plethora of valuable resources that will foster and nurture collaborations amongst students, faculty, staff, alumni, visiting scholars, investors and community members through hackathons, startup weekends, pitches and competitions.

Companies and Careers

Nurture founding individuals or teams (including resident startups) as they traverse the path from ideation to company formation to product-market fit to minimum exceptional product to funding to scaling to exiting. In addition, nurture anyone who desires to explore alternative careers contributing to the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Contributions

Encourage and assist founders and other business influentials who benefitted from the Launchpad and Clemson’s Entrepreneurial Network to circle back and give of their time, expertise and wealth.