The 1 Million Cups program has been launched in northern Delaware.
Created by Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation, the first event will be held each Wednesday at the Delaware Technical and Community College Wilmington campus at 7:30 a.m.
The location is conference rooms A and B at the Southeast Building Conference Center at the campus, between Third and Orange streets.
Wilmington is the 21st in the nation to host the weekly gathering. The 1 Million Cups program is also being held at the Owens Campus of Delaware Tech in Georgetown.
One Million Cups began in April 2012 in Kansas City, the hometown of its founding organization, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Kauffman Labs is a program of the Kauffman Foundation.
Every Wednesday morning in each city, two early-stage startups present their companies to a diverse audience of mentors, advisers and other entrepreneurs. Each founder presents for six minutes and then fields audience questions for another 20 minutes. The program is run entirely by local entrepreneurs who serve as community organizers.
The first week’s presenters will be Rope It Golf, LLC, a golf startup that manufactures and distributes a practice device, and Penguin Ads, an advertising startup utilizing an outdoor medium.
