Rising to the entrepreneurial challenge

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November 11, 2019
By Brock

What gives a college student the confidence to greet hundreds of strangers and pitch the idea of making leather out of mushrooms? Or to explain why musicians should use artificial intelligence to write better songs? Or how a cold storage device they invented will help farmers in India double their income?

The only thing more impressive than the multitude of bold student ideas on display at the Carolina Challenge Pitch Party hosted by Kenan-Flagler Business School’s Entrepreneurship Center last week was the gumption the students possessed in pitching them. For weeks leading up to this year’s edition of UNC-Chapel Hill’s largest campus-wide student pitch competition, 115 student teams worked hard to hone entrepreneurial ideas and build the fortitude to pitch them to 250 judges.

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