Breakthrough Weekend
What can you build in 54 hours?
Join highly innovative and motivated people who want to turn an idea into a startup.
Pitch your idea, form a team and start a business in only 54 hours. Make new friends, find future collaborators, and enjoy free food, drinks and snacks throughout the weekend.
Breakthrough Weekend is led by The Startup Collaborative and hosted by the Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Franchising. At this event, you will learn the first steps in starting a business and gain and understanding of what it will take to navigate the road ahead.
Breakthrough Weekend 2018
This event is sponsored by Cox for Business and brought to you by The Startup Collaborative and UNO Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Franchising.
For more information about this event, email Levi Cermak: lcermak7@unomaha.edu
Teams working in their "cubicles"
Ly Phan, Breakthrough Weekend participant had the following to say:
"I'm really grateful that I had a chance to attend Breakthrough Weekend. Not only did I make many great friends, but also learned a lot about starting a business. Breakthrough Weekend gave me the confidence to pitch my own idea, which I did at the Big Idea! Pitch Competition, and won!"
Team Holler Scholar in action, working on their business!
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