with Haley Russell, Seth Neel, Michael Wong, and Shanel Fields

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Host Karl Ulrich hosts a very special episode of Launch Pad, speaking to eight semi-finalists from the Penn Wharton Entrepreneurship Startup Challenge. If you’re not familiar, this is where our students spend the year building a company, and then enter our competition where they pitch their company to accomplished investors. They will be competing for 135-thousand dollars in cash and prizes. In Part I, we speak with: Haley Russell, Chipper Pet Food; Seth Neel, Welligence Energy Analytics; Michael Wong, Instahub; and Shanel Fields of MD Ally. More Info: https://entrepreneurship.wharton.upenn.edu/startup-showcase/

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