Rice Launch

• This page is referenced in Rice Entrepreneurship

Rice Launch [1] is a campus organization notable for partaking in 3 Day Startup, Entrepreneurship Summit, and the Owl Open. Unlike the Rice Alliance, Rice Launch is a student-only organization that does collaborate with other entrepreneurial organizations for Houston events.

Leadership

Senthil Natarajan, Will Rice '17

AJ Mao, Sid Rich '17

Ben Tour, Wiess '17

Ben Herndon-Miller, Will Rice '18

Jake Nyquist, Will Rice '18

Events

3 Day Startup

The 3 Day Startup is a week-end event held during the month of October at TMCx[2]. The event is meant to allow Rice Univeristy students with an entrepreneurial idea to aggressively start the process of product creation while developing connections with other students and local entrepreneurs.

Application for the event opens in the fall semester, and closes by the end of September.

Teams

3 Day Startup looks for teams with positions relating, but not limited to:[3]

• Software Engineer
• Business (Finance, Marketing, Biz Dev)
• Graphic Design (Web, Print)
• Advertising, PR
• Legal

Entrepreneurship Summit

The Entrepreneurship Summit is held during the month of February[4]. The one-day event targets potential entrepreneurs seeking to learn more about the start-up process through workshops and panels. Students in undergraduate, graduate, and MBA disciplines may participate in the event.

Registration begins in January, and is advertised through the Rice Launch website, as well as its Facebook page.