Lansing Built To Last

We're a disaster-resistant startup competition with a heck of a jackpot. The winner gets a year's worth of services to build their idea in downtown Lansing.

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

Our (figurative) doors are open! Submit your exciting, creative, bold, charming, disaster-resistant business ideas at https://t.co/NYDLAjvUF0. If you win, it won't be long before your (very real) doors will be open in downtown Lansing. Submissions due March 14, 2021.

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

UPDATE: HUGE thank you to everyone involved!! We've had an excellent response to our competition. Lansing Built To Last received over 50 applications, so downtown Lansing is certainly in for a treat when the time comes. 💪🤝

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

What's Lansing Built To Last? @WLNSSheriJones, @andyschor, @WLNSAmandaDavis, @LtGovGilchrist, and @ChivonOnAir are here to explain. The Intent To Compete Form is due Saturday, March 20!

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

‼️DEADLINE CORRECTION‼️

The deadline for the Intent To Compete Form is now Saturday, March 20.

Which means six more whole days to polish your idea ;)

Send them in at https://t.co/NYDLAjvUF0

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

Calling all Michigan residents! The deadline to submit your business idea is March 14!

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

Got an idea? We've got a year's worth of business support waiting to make it happen. Apply at https://t.co/NYDLAjvUF0.

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

Hey all you idea-makers!! The Intent to Compete Form is due in 6 days!! Here's @LtGovGilchrist with a quick run-down of the competition.

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

‼️TIMELINE ALERT‼️

We are ONE WEEK away from the submission deadline. We're hungry for your ideas, please feed us!! Soon a winning business will be up and running in downtown Lansing, and it could be yours ;)

Submit your idea at https://t.co/dQt03Wjl0S

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

‼️TIMELINE ALERT‼️

We are TWO WEEKS away from the submission deadline. Time flies when you're... building a more durable Lansing? Yeah, that sounds right. Get those startup ideas in, we're getting giddy over here.

Head to https://t.co/dQt03Wjl0S

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

Take a moment and let us entice you with our bountiful prize pool. Winning startup gets:
- free rent for a year
- a physical renovation budget
- a year of free legal & financial services, IT, branding, and marketing
- even more (somehow)

Apply at https://t.co/dQt03Wjl0S

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

What's up in AA, @UMCFE? We've got a startup competition here with your students' names on it. (The jackpot is quite goooood.) I wonder how your ideas will stack up against the Spartans'... 🤔😉

Send 'em in at https://t.co/dQt03Wjl0S.

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

An hour before lunch & I can't help but think that the winning idea of Lansing Built To Last might be a food spot. Any foodies out there with a tasty venture to bring downtown?? Submit that idea at https://t.co/Lcjuv6Lj4r

All kinds of business ideas are welcome. I'm just hungry.

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

Hey, @TheRealSparty, if you weren't already in the business of being the world's most famous, buffest, smartest mascot, what business would you start? Chances that @msualumni will let you apply to our startup competition? We'll be waiting for you at https://t.co/dQt03Wjl0S

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

Our friendly neighborhood credit union, @msufcu. We've got a question for you (and your members). What's the coolest startup idea floating around your branches?? We're ready to hook the best idea up with a bunch of prizes at https://t.co/dQt03Wjl0S.

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

Good morning, @SarahAnthony517!! What kind of startup ideas are swirling around in your district? We're trying to build a more durable Lansing, and we're hoping you and your constituents will join us :) 🤝💪

They can submit their ideas at https://t.co/Lz03LrVEuL

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

How's it going over there in EL, @michiganstateu? Spartans Will, huh? But will they submit their rousing startup ideas to our competition??? 🤔😏 (Tell them the winning business gets free rent for a year. That should turn some heads.) https://t.co/Lcjuv6Lj4r

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

Have you heard what we've got going on in town, @BugsySailor? It's never too late to move back to Lansing... We know you're never short on ideas soooooo we'll drop the link just in case: https://t.co/dQt03Wjl0S

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

@micauw right back at you! 🤝😉

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

When people realize that the winner of our startup competition gets a 3,083 sq ft space in downtown Lansing (with a year of free rent)

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

Keep helping us spread the word! We accept all forms of support: RTs, likes, shares, those planes that write stuff in the sky, blimps, crumpling up pieces of paper and (gently) tossing them at people, shouting into a megaphone from your porch, etc.

But RTs and likes are A-OK ;)

[Lansing Built To Last @LanBuiltToLast]

What's up, @purelansing? As local economic experts, you've got your ears to the ground. What are the latest startup rumblings around town? Anything to keep our eyes and ears peeled for?? Have those folks hit us up at https://t.co/NYDLAjvUF0