I was honored to be a judge for the finals of the Launch It! entrepreneurial competition at SUNY Oswego this year. Here are a couple pix from the Friday afternoon finals. One with all the students (including one telepresenting from Yonkers!), educators, and judges (except for me). 2nd pic is the winning team, Anonymous Athlete, plus School of Business assistant dean Dr Irene Scruton and Dean Prabakar Kothandaraman.
Over the last two Fridays, I was invited to watch SUNY Oswego’s first student business competition. Launch It! was a program started by two students, Jordan Shutts and Eli VanOrman, both members of the SUNY Oswego Enactus group. [Enactus is an international business organization that promotes education and presentation competition. Visit the main website here. I highly recommend it to any college students.]
Agile’ was honored to be asked to participate! So, we decided to award a year’s worth of web hosting to each of the top three teams. I’ll be posting pictures of the winners, plus some information about their business proposals and the team members as I get the information from them. I was very impressed by many of the teams, including some that didn’t win any awards.
Which brings me to the point I told them directly, and which applies to all my clients and folks who read my books: Just because someone else doesn’t single you out for recognition, doesn’t mean you’re not worthy. Keep going! Don’t quit just because nobody stopped to pat you on the back, or because you weren’t awarded money. Keep working at your business for you, and for all those who will benefit from your efforts.