Building businesses, building lives: RISE Business Academy graduates launch new futures - Silicon Prairie News

Building businesses, building lives: RISE Business Academy graduates launch new futures - Silicon Prairie News

On June 28, nine entrepreneurs stood in front of a crowd and pitched the businesses they had spent 12 weeks building. With friends, mentors, community leaders and a panel of judges watching, they told stories of transformation from adversity to opportunity and competed for startup funding in the final pitch competition and graduation of the RISE Business Academy. The RISE Business Academy, now in its 13th cohort, offers a 12-week intensive entre…