The BIG Idea Competition at Cornell is designed to provide undergrad students with early-stage ideas to compete for cash prizes!
More importantly, participating students will gain access to the Blackstone LaunchPad program on their campus, to get the support on their entrepreneurship journey and skill-building.
The signature program supports Blackstone LaunchPad’s goal in de-risking entrepreneurship, broadening accessibility, and diversifying engagement with a focus on recruiting underrepresented and under-resourced students to participate.
To apply you must be…
- A current undergraduate student.
- The creator or co-creator of the idea.
- In the idea phase! If you are already in business with your idea or created a legal entity for the business, then you do NOT qualify. This is an “ideas” competition not a “business” competition.