{"id":2404,"date":"2015-04-18T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/?p=2404"},"modified":"2015-04-18T18:01:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T22:01:07","slug":"ldhp-freshmen-ryan-skolnick-wins-pirate-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/2015\/04\/ldhp-freshmen-ryan-skolnick-wins-pirate-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"LDHP Freshmen Ryan Skolnick Wins Pirate Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/04\/piratespitch.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2405\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/04\/piratespitch-371x494.jpg\" alt=\"piratespitch\" width=\"371\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/04\/piratespitch-371x494.jpg 371w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/04\/piratespitch-141x188.jpg 141w, http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/files\/2015\/04\/piratespitch.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 371px) 100vw, 371px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">Last week, the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University held its 5th annual Pirates Pitch, an entrepreneurship competition designed to help startups develop their ideas and compete for over $10,000 in prizes!\u00a0 To begin,\u00a0Luciana Contuzzi,\u00a0a Seton Hall graduate and a previous winner of Pirates Pitch attended as a guest speaker, giving advice to future entrepreneurs and talking about what she has done with her company, Zest, since her graduation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif\">Ryan Skolnick, a freshman business major from Morristown, NJ took first place! \u00a0His\u00a0company, Aveho Learning, is a language learning video game that will soon be on the market for students in grades K-12. \u00a0The purpose of the video game is for students who are trying to learn new languages to be immersed in both\u00a0the language and culture of the country\u00a0simultaneously. Ryan won the grand prize of $6,000 plus legal and marketing services, which he is planning on using to create a 10-minute demo version of the game in order to present it to different schools and gain the funds to create the entire game. Ryan was ecstatic to have the opportunity to pursue his ideas and his career, particularly as a freshman, and is looking forward to what the future holds for his company!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University held its 5th annual Pirates Pitch, an entrepreneurship competition designed to help startups develop their ideas and compete for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/2406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/StillmanLeaders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}