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Big Bang! Kickoff |October 27
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LESSONS FROM A GLOBAL LEADER
Change the World, One Enterprise at at Time  

Kick off the 15th Annual
Big Bang! Business Competition
with Matt Flannery
Co-founder, Kiva.org
Founder, Branch International

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The Big Bang! Business Competition provides a rich immersion in starting your business venture. But you don't have to compete to attend our workshops and build your entrepreneurial skills.

Big Bang! Kickoff 
Join us 10.27.15 | 6:30–9:30 p.m. | UC Davis


Don't miss this opportunity to meet other aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, share ideas, meet past winners, learn about the competition and formulate teams.

The competition provides a year-round forum for UC Davis students, alumni, faculty and staff to collaborate, develop and test business ideas. You'll find resources for mentorship, team creation, education, networking and financing—and winners receive cash prizes.

Refreshments will be served.

Hosted by the UC Davis Child Family Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Big Bang! is the largest annual business competition in the Sacramento region.


The Big Bang! Kickoff is free but registration is requested.

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More about Foodful.ly (above) and other 2015 Big Bang! winners >

Keynote speaker Matt Flannery began developing Kiva.org in late 2004 as a side project while working as a computer programmer at TiVo Inc. A year later he left TiVo to grow Kiva from a pilot project to an established online service with partnerships in 80 countries and $700+ million loaned to low-income entrepreneurs.  

Matt recently jumped back into the startup world with
Branch International, a for-profit, Android-based "branchless bank" for Africans that has made tens of thousands of loans in Kenya since its launch earlier this year.

Top 40 under 40, Fortune
No Boundaries Innovation Award, The Economist

Skoll Awardee
Ashoka Fellow

                      

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