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Business Plan Contests

  • Advanced Materials Enabled Innovation Competition
    Business Plan Contest | Contest Details
    Advanced Materials Enabled Innovation Competition

    Objective: The Advanced Materials Enabled Innovation Competition challenges students to design or prototype an innovative technology based on advanced materials and to demonstrate that this technology can be successful in a commercial product/process or as a small business innovation research (SBIR) proposal.

    The final presentations will be held on Thursday, May 3, 2012 in the McManus Lounge in Hollister Hall from 8:45am - noon. Free and open to the public!

    The event can also be viewed live as streaming video at: http://mediasite.video.cornell.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=4c85afe98024419cba216f65be2c073e1d

    When viewing the streaming video, you may be prompted to download the SilverLight player if it is not already loaded on your computer.

    Prizes:

    • First: $15,000
    • Second: $8,000
    • Third: $4,000
    • Director's Design Prize:  $3,000 for an innovative design by an all-undergraduate team

    Except for the Director's Design Prize, a percentage of up to 25% of the each total prize amount will be set aside and be available for the team solely for expenses related to further commercialization of the project, such as patent and legal fees, marketing, or prototype manufacture, incurred within 18 months after the competition judging.  The remaining percentage of the prize will be awarded directly to the team soon after the awards are announced.  

    Competition Overview:

    Teams: The competition is team based. Teams must consist of 2 to 5 Cornell students (undergraduate and/or graduate), at least two of whom should be associated with Materials Science and Engineering (MS&E). Teams that are comprised solely of undergraduate students will also be eligible for the Director's Design Prize. See 'Competition Guidelines' for team requirements.

    Innovation: Projects should be based on materials-enabled innovation. Suggested areas include:

    • Energy Production and Storage
    • Biotechnology and Biomedicine
    • Electronics and Photonics
    • Green Technologies
  • Cornell Venture Challenge
    Business Plan Contest | BR Venture Fund
    CVC is Cornell University's prestigious Business Plan Competition!

    BR Venture Fund is seeking applications for the Cornell Venture Challenge (CVC)!

    The Cornell Venture Challenge (CVC) is Cornell University's prestigious Business Plan Competition.  On April 19, 2012, during the Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration event a select group of applicants will get the change to pitch new and exciting business ideas to a panel of professional investors and entrepreneurs.  The winners of the competition will earn a $10,000 cash prize (non-dilutive funding) to push their ideas forward.

    This competition provides a way for burgeoning entrepreneurial ideas/teams to gain experience, exposure, and financing to help launch succesful ventures.  The teams selected to compete will receive pitch experience including preperation and feedback from seasoned professionals.  In the past this unique exposure has led to follow-on investment and formal advisor relationships. 

    The competition is sponsored by BR Venture Fund (BRV), a student-run venture capital fund at Cornell University's Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.

    Awards

    • 1st Place: $10,000
    • 2nd Place: $2,500
    • 3rd Place: $1,000

    CCTEC (Cornell Center for Technology Enterprise and Commercialization) may double the prize money by applying the Cornell Technology Transfer Prize to winners who use intellectual property development at Cornell and disclosed to CCTEC before CVC application submission.

    Please visit CVC Homepage (http://brventurefund.com/cornell-venture-challenge) for timeline and application details!  Feel free to email Zach Casavant at ztc5@cornell.edu with any questions.

    Applications are due by March 2nd, 2012!

  • Entrepreneurship@Cornell BIG Idea Competition
    Undergraduate Idea Competition | E@C BIG Idea Contest Information
    The Competition for Big Thinkers

    “The BIG Idea” is a business idea competition open exclusively to Cornell undergraduates. Organized and executed by Entrepreneurship@Cornell, “The BIG Idea” offers cash prizes to the top three ideas. Winners are determined by three phases of competition including a live presentation to alumni, students, faculty and staff at the annual Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration. Learn more at http://www.eship.cornell.edu/activities/BigIdea/.

  • UNC's Sustainable Venture Capital Investment Competition
    | http://www.svcic.org/

    Student teams comprised of top MBAs play the role of venture capital analysts that must go through the entire VC investment process in an extremely condensed time period. Each team:

    Analyzes real business plans from social/sustainable entrepreneurs currently seeking VC funding

    Watch entrepreneur "road-show" pitches

    Sit down for one-on-one due diligence with each entrepreneur

    Choose the deal in which their fund will invest

    Structure the deal, create an executive summary, term sheet summaries and presentation pitch

    A panel of VC judges observes the event from the periphery. After the entrepreneurs depart, students must convince the VC "partners" that their investment recommendations are sound through presentations and Q&A.

    Student teams will be evaluated on how well they identify and mitigate risk, assess social and environmental impact, understand the VC process, and communicate and work as a team.
    Competition

  • YouPitch
    | YouPitch Website

    YouPitch is an online pitch competition where students from all over the world make a 60 second pitch video on their innovative ideas, post it on YouTube, and have the opportunity to win 5000$. The winning team will also receive a 1000$ travel reimbursement to come to MIT in Boston and get a VIP ticket to receive their reward at the MIT100K BPC Finale. 

  • Hospitality Business Plan Competition
    Business Plan Contest
    An opportunity to win big while planning big!

    What is it?

    The Hospitality Business Plan Competition provides an experiential learning opportunity to rising entrepreneurs looking to make their mark on the hospitality industry. The competition kicks off at the start of the academic year and culminates in early spring with the submission of final business plans and group presentations. The winners are announced during Hotel Ezra Cornell. Cash prizes are awarded to the top three teams - $15,000 to the winning team! New this year: an additional $5,000 prize for the business plan that best address issues of disability and/or environmental sustainability.

    Click here to learn more.

     

  • Creative Core Emerging Business Competition
    | Creative Core Emerging Business Competition

    The competition will run in three categories: Emerging Business, 15K innovations in agri-business, and the $5,000 Business Idea. The 1st place winner in the Emerging Business category will win $200,000. The Business Idea competition will award one talented high school or college student a $5,000 cash prize for a great business idea essay

  • Elevator Pitch Competition
    Business Plan Contest | 4th Annual Elevator Pitch Competition
    Hosted by the Cornell Entrepreneurship Organization

    Cornell Entrepreneurship Organization (CEO) is proud to announce the 4th annual Elevator Pitch Competition. 

    The competition features undergraduate students pitching their "business idea/concept" for 90-120 seconds. We are currently accepting applications for the event, and will continue to do so until November 13 at 10 pm. There will be cash prizes for the event and it will be a great opportunity for students to begin developing ideas for the eventual Big Idea Competition.

    For more information on this event please contact William Holtz, President of Cornell Entrepreneurship Organization at wbh35@cornell.edu

  • Cornell 3 Day Startup
    | Cornell 3 Day Startup

    The Startup guides the most passionate, talented students from all disciplines through the early stages of a technology company. Over one intense weekend, participants brainstorm ideas, conduct market validation, devise business models, build prototypes, and pitch to successful entrepreneurs and investors. The result is an experience that inspires innovation by requiring participants to actually build and launch companies.

  • 2012 Tulane Business Plan Competition
    | Tulane Business Plan Competition

    The 2012 Tulane Business Plan Competition is now accepting submissions from students of all universities for the first round of competition. The deadline is January 22, 2012, so there’s plenty of time to enter an idea. The competition is based around social entrepreneurship. We will award a $50,000 CASH prize to the winner, which is the largest cash prize in the nation for a student business plan competition!