{"463361":{"#nid":"463361","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Applications Open for Startup Summer 2016","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStartup Summer is looking for the next great ideas from Tech students for its 2016 program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStartup Summer is a 12-week intensive course in which student teams launch startups based on their ideas and prototypes. Teams are provided with mentorship, workspace, seed funding, intellectual property protection, and visibility. To date, 18 teams have been through \u0026nbsp;the two-year-old program and launched their startups.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cI have motivation, but Startup Summer gave me the support and structure and honest advice I needed,\u201d said Shiv Patel, a computer science major who participated in the 2015 program. \u201cInstead of letting me be discouraged when my first idea didn\u2019t work, they helped me ask the questions I needed to find something else.\u201d Patel\u2019s team created \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/mercez.com\/\u0022\u003EMercez\u003C\/a\u003E, a tool to help people when they\u2019re traveling and shopping abroad.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFIXD, a student product from Startup Summer 2014, helps drivers quickly diagnose problems with their vehicles when the check engine light has been triggered. The team surpassed a Kickstarter fundraising goal last fall and is now part of Tech\u2019s VentureLab incubator.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStartup Summer is the LAUNCH signature element within CREATE-X, an initiative established by Tech alumnus Chris Klaus to build entrepreneurial confidence among Georgia Tech undergraduates. \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ECREATE-X\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E partners with \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/venturelab.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EVentureLab\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E to offer the program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EApplications for 2016 are now open, and students who apply by Nov. 10 will receive an acceptance decision by Thanksgiving. Learn more at \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.startupsummer.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ewww.startupsummer.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E or apply at \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.startupsummer.gatech.edu\/apply\u0022\u003Ewww.startupsummer.gatech.edu\/apply\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EStartup Summer is a 12-week intensive course for student teams to launch startups based on their ideas, inventions, and prototypes.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Startup Summer is a 12-week intensive course for student teams to launch startups based on their ideas, inventions, and prototypes."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2015-10-29 09:05:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:19:51","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-10-29T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-10-29T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"430611":{"id":"430611","type":"image","title":"CREATE-X","body":null,"created":"1449254381","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 18:39:41","changed":"1475895169","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:52:49"},"460371":{"id":"460371","type":"image","title":"Startup Summer 2016","body":null,"created":"1449256361","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:12:41","changed":"1475895204","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:24","alt":"Startup Summer 2016","file":{"fid":"203587","name":"startupsummer_ad_final.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/startupsummer_ad_final_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/startupsummer_ad_final_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":604796,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/startupsummer_ad_final_0.jpg?itok=eyuUuv9K"}}},"media_ids":["430611","460371"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/startupsummer.gatech.edu\/","title":"Startup Summer at Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2014\/09\/09\/student-startup-keeps-cars-%E2%80%98fixd%E2%80%99","title":"Student Startup Keeps Cars \u2018FIXD\u2019"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.news.gatech.edu\/2015\/08\/17\/students-spend-summer-launching-startups","title":"Students Spend Summer Launching Startups"},{"url":"http:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu\/","title":"CREATE-X"}],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"137161","name":"CREATE-X"},{"id":"3472","name":"entrepreneurship"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"166972","name":"startup summer"},{"id":"166994","name":"startups"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kristen.bailey@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EKristen Bailey\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jennifer.bomar@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJennifer Bomar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ECREATE-X\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}