{"id":16348,"date":"2018-04-02T15:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T19:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/?p=16348"},"modified":"2018-04-09T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T13:51:54","slug":"student-entrepreneurs-in-national-start-up-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/2018\/04\/02\/student-entrepreneurs-in-national-start-up-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Entrepreneurs in National Start-up Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business Management majors William Turano &#8217;18 and Tal Granot &#8217;18 comprise one of only 25 teams from colleges and universities across the country to be chosen to compete in this year&#8217;s Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge. They will pitch their start-up business, Lifted Roots Vertical Farms, at e-Fest 2018, April 12 &#8211; 14 in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation,<br \/>\nthe Schulze School of <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16386 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2018\/03\/Lifted-Roots-logo-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"Lifted Roots logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/>Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas, and EIX.org, a non-profit online platform for entrepreneurship education, e-Fest celebrates undergraduate student entrepreneurs that submitted the best business pitches in a preliminary online competition.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a pitch competition, development workshops, an Innovation Challenge, and the featured event: 25 teams competing for more than $250,000 in cash prizes.<\/p>\n<p>Lifted Roots Vertical Farms,\u00a0founded by Turano in 2017, is a service that provides a hydroponic agricultural system that is versatile, mobile, and sustainable, to meet the consumer demand for farm-to-table foods. The system grows food responsibly and sustainably to reduce the environmental impact of food production. The indoor farm uses 95% less water compared to traditional farms and is an almost carbon-neutral operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Management majors William Turano &#8217;18 and Tal Granot &#8217;18 comprise one of only 25 teams from colleges and universities across the country to be chosen to compete in this year&#8217;s Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge. They will pitch their start-up business, Lifted Roots Vertical Farms, at e-Fest 2018, April 12 &#8211; 14 in Minneapolis. Sponsored by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":14467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16348"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16830,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16348\/revisions\/16830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}