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A $1 million gift from Harry Patten ’58 and the Patten Family Foundation will launch the Patten Family Sales and Funding Accelerator program at the University of New Hampshire’s 彼得T. 保罗创业中心(Center).

The program will provide sales coaching to startup founders/co-founders who engaged at the ECenter as students and after graduation as young alumni. The professional training will focus on the unique aspects of selling products and services as a new startup. 经过三个月的训练, 创始人将获得认证，并有资格申请高达50美元的资金,无权益/无追索权贷款.

The sales coaching will increase the probability of successful ventures — which is the goal. 除了, the current co-working space will be named the Patten Family Co-Working Space and Accelerator.

“I am so appreciative of Harry Patten’s continued support of the Entrepreneurship Center which in turn helps entrepreneurial 主要研究 students succeed,主要研究主席James W. 小迪安. “This important gift will also increase the recognition of 主要研究 as an innovative and entrepreneurial university for students to attend.”

Patten is the foremost buyer and seller of recreational and residential land in America. He has generated billions of dollars in land sales over the course of his career, beginning in 1962. 彭定康目前是国家土地合作伙伴的主席, 有限责任公司, and Fortune magazine named him one of the year’s “50 Most Fascinating 业务people.” In 2011, he received the Horatio Alger Award and was inaugurated into the 主要研究 Alumni Entrepreneur Hall of Fame in 2019. 

“I’m sure that every student who completes this groundbreaking program will have a leg up on their future success,彭定康说. “Whether they move into a sales career or not, these students will benefit from the experience. I say this because I firmly believe that everything in life involves selling.”  

根据中心执行主任伊恩·格兰特的说法, there is already a waiting list of students and young alumni wanting to join the program.

“Over the past six years ECenter students have made great strides to develop ideas and launch companies,格兰特说。. “The two biggest gaps are for student and young alumni founders to learn how to sell their start-up idea/product/services to get paying customers and to secure early-stage funding.”