PACE 101
This is the name of the Hawaiian plant that is one of the first to sprout on barren lava fields and represents tenacity and resilience.
What is Kupukupu?
Co-founded by two Steves in 1976, this company went public in 1980 transforming technology, communication and the music industry.
What is Apple?
This is the name of the monthly meeting where PACE Leaders meet, bond and hear from guest speakers.
What is the PACE Leaders Summit?
The Walter Dods, Jr. RISE Center is located at the corner of University Ave. and this street.
What is Metcalf St.?
Eddie Flores, Jr. is the co-founder of this plate lunch business, which now has over 200 locations across the U.S. and abroad.
What is L&L Hawaiian Barbecue?
PACE stands for this
What is the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship?
This company was officially founded as "Cadabra" and began as an online bookstore in 1994, selling $12,000 worth of physical books in its first week.
What is Amazon?
This program gives out three $500 and two $1000 grants every month during the school year.
What is Kalo Grants?
RISE officially opened its doors in this year.
What is 2023?
Traven Watase is a PACE alum and the founder of this online platform that connects students to scholarships.
What is ScholarsApp?
This spring competition—which celebrated its 25th anniversary—asks students to pitch their startup ideas and write a business plan for cash and valuable in-kind prizes.
What is the UH Venture Competition?
This cosmetics company was founded by a reality TV star in 2015 with its initial success of lip kits.
What is Kylie Cosmetics?
This is the name of the space in the Walter Dods, Jr. RISE Center that PACE Leaders and PACE entrepreneurs have exclusive access to.
What is the Kīpuka?
This is the name of the coffee shop in the lobby of the Walter Dods, Jr. RISE Center.
What is Island Brew?
Jared Kushi is a PACE alum who started this online platform—the state's largest free coupon directory and online store.
What is Hawaiiverse?
This program brings professionals to campus to meet with students for probono consulting services on areas include business law, marketing and venture finance.
What is the Professional-in-Residence program?
Walter Dods, Jr. served as the chairman and CEO of this bank—the largest and oldest financial institution in Hawaii—founded in 1858.
What is First Hawaiian Bank?
PACE Leaders are responsible for these 6 programs.
What are Ambassadors, Calvin Shindo Student Venture Fund, Entrepreneurship Live, Kalo Grants, Level Up and Maker?
RISE is privately managed by this company.
What is B.hom?
Henk Rogers attended UH and is the co-founder of this global puzzle game business that was first introduced on Nintendo's Game Boy.
What is Tetris?
This 6-week summer program provides education and mentorship to help students build their business.
What is the Summer Startup Launchpad?
Guy Kawasaki serves as the chief evangelist of this Australian software company that provides tools for creating graphics.
What is Canva?
The maximum number of unexcused absences allowed for Summits before PACE Leaders are disqualified from the program.
What is 3?
The PACE space in RISE includes over this many square feet of coworking, maker, ideation, classroom, and recording studio space.
What is 10,000 square feet?
Family-owned and operated, UH alum Chris Iwamura is the current CEO of this popular eatery.
What is Rainbow Drive-In?