{"id":805,"date":"2012-01-27T14:58:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T20:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/?p=805"},"modified":"2012-01-30T15:02:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T21:02:10","slug":"the-season-for-springboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2012\/01\/27\/the-season-for-springboard\/","title":{"rendered":"The season for Springboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">If you have ever taken the time to sit down and jot out a plan for starting your own business, you need to enter our Springboard Ideas Challenge. If you ever <em>even just thought about<\/em> a cool idea for a business or service, you need to enter our Springboard Ideas Challenge. You never know! <strong>YOU<\/strong> could win $10,000! There&#8217;s even a high school category for competition this year. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acu.edu\/academics\/coba\/griggscenter\/springboard\/ideas\/rules.html#divisions\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> for more information about the competition, divisions, awards and prizes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><span style=\"color: #800080\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acu.edu\/academics\/coba\/griggscenter\/springboard\/ideas\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">Registration is now open for our fifth annual Springboard Ideas Challenge!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Don&#8217;t worry if you don&#8217;t know how to write a business plan, there are training sessions scheduled to help you learn!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Also, mark your calendars for Tuesday, April 17th for the Springboard Ideas Challenge Awards Dinner. We&#8217;re <em>honored<\/em> to welcome <strong>William (Bill) E. Greehey<\/strong>, former Chairman and CEO of Valero, as our guest speaker. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greeheyfoundation.org\/biography.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to learn more about Mr. Greehey. He now serves as Chairman of the Board for NuStar Energy L.P. and is an active philanthropic patron in the San Antonio area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #800080\">We hope you can join us during this exciting Springboard season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever taken the time to sit down and jot out a plan for starting your own business, you need to enter our Springboard Ideas Challenge. If you ever even just thought about a cool idea for a business or service, you need to enter our Springboard Ideas Challenge. You never know! YOU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7012,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2801,2750,2760,2751,2761,2752],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coba-events","category-current-students","category-entrepreneurship","category-griggs-center","category-special-speakers","category-springboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7012"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}