ReBuildUp kicked off the first day of the week long Business Cents Camp at Davidson County Community College for high school students from surrounding Davidson County schools.
Economy, Jr. in the morning
Million Dollar Idea before lunch
Pitch Drill in the afternoon
Finished up with Cashless Incubator
PRIVATE EVENT – Today we’re kicking off the week long Business Cents Camp held at Davidson County Community College with our ReBuildUp Course for about 25 students from 3 area high schools in Davidson County. This event is organized in part by the NCCCS Small Business Center Network.
Pendragon 3D Arts, LLC was the first place winner of May’s PitchPocalypse business plan contest for their 3D scanning startup. They’ve now enrolled in our 3 month Startup Test Flight class that graduates in August after completing all the assigned projects.
The first project was to build their startup’s web presence. Pendragon 3D Arts, LLC already had a website setup so the assignment was to build a blog and social media sites.
Take a minute and check out their blog and social sites to like, follow, share, and comment on the ones you like.
instagram.com/pendragon3d_arts
If you’re interested in joining the Startup Test Flight class, we will have another PitchPocalypse business plan contest for teens and adults with qualifying events this summer in Greensboro.
Details coming soon.
Special thanks to Greensboro Municipal Federal Credit Union for donating 4 decks each of our entrepreneur card game Million Dollar Idea to the business classes of seven area Guilford County Schools with a total of 28 decks donated.
Heather Pendrak, a local high school teacher, won first place in ReBuildUp, LLC’s “PitchPocalypse” business plan contest held at Greensboro Central Library on Sunday, May 17th sponsored by Summit Credit Union. Heather’s winning idea was for a 3D scanning company that scans finished goods for furniture market clients and others creating files that can easily be printed out using 3D printers. The name of her new venture is Pendragon 3D Arts.
As the first place winner, she will be receiving $200 for her new company, one year membership to the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, three months of accounting help from Michael Robinson Accounting, LLC., and access to Elon’s Business Clinic.
Second place went to Destiny Riley, a rising Senior at UNCG, for her startup specializing in replacing toxic nail products with safer ones for area salons. She won $100 along with Greensboro Chamber membership, three months of accounting help, and legal assistance from Elon’s Business Clinic.
Both entrepreneurs now move on to ReBuildUp’s “Startup Test Flight” three month class to test out their business concepts in the real world. Once completed, both become eligible for micro loans up to $5,000 each from the Greensboro Community Development Fund.
The next Greensboro ReBuildUp Course and PitchPocalypse is planned for late July again at Greensboro Central Library.
Thank you for all the help from family and friends game testing Million Dollar Idea and taking part in the instruction video. Thanks also to Geeksboro for allowing us to film this video at their Lawndale Drive location.
Take a minute to watch this video and consider buying a deck of your own by going to our Store.
We’re putting together our new game play demo and instruction video for Million Dollar Idea. Once complete, we’ll be shipping out donated decks of MDI to business and entrepreneurship classes of selected schools throughout Guilford County.
PUBLIC (FREE) EVENT – On Saturday, May 16th, our ReBuildUp Course for adults will be held from 1-5pm at Greensboro Central Library in Downtown Greensboro.
For the first time, this event will be open to adults 18 and up although a small number of select teens will be allowed to participate (contact us for teen details).
The ReBuildUp Course is part one of our three part Startup Program developed to help aspiring entrepreneurs learn the basics and find out if they truly want to take the plunge into entrepreneurship BEFORE committing to business courses, expensive leases, and borrowing money.
Part two takes place the next day on Sunday 2:30-5:00pm (also at Central Library) with our PitchPocalypse business plan pitching contest with up to 8 contestants from our ReBuildUp Course competing for money towards their startup effort along with other prizes like Greensboro Chamber of Commerce membership for 1st and 2nd place and 3 months of accounting help from Michael Robinson Accounting for all three top winners.
Part three is our Startup Test Flight running for 3 months for winners and non-winners of the PitchPocalypse to use techniques learned during our ReBuildUp Course to test the startup waters on your own time to figure out what you want to do for a business.
Sign up here for this event:
Here are pictures from our Saturday, March 14th ReBuildUp Course held for area teens hosted at the Co//ab sponsored by Michael Robinson Accounting.
Thank you to Co//ab for letting us use their new Downtown Greensboro facility on a rainy day along with mentioning us in their weekly newsletter.
PRIVATE EVENT – The first ReBuildUp Course of the summer is set for Monday, June 8th at the College of Davidson and Davies Counties (DCCC). This will be part of the week long Business Cents Camp held on campus for students from three area high schools.
Again, this is a private event not open to the public. Contact us if you’re interested in a free open to the public ReBuildUp Course in your area.