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Rice Business Plan Contest

Big Plans, Big Show, Rice’s Business Plan Contest

by Tim Berry on April 20, 2009

in Venture Contests

Jeff Mullins is a man with a mission. He says he was a patent attorney for seven years to get to know how that works. Then he went back to school, in the MBA program at Carnegie Mellon University, to focus on entrepreneurship. He’s now got the hottest startup I’ve seen in a while, Dynamics, [...]

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Business Plans and Prizes and Too Many Winners

by Tim Berry on April 17, 2009

in Business Planning, Venture Contests

Most venture contests deal with three elements: the business plan, the pitch presentation, and the question and answer session. Where does the plan itself stand, in the mix? What I’ve gathered from 13 years of judging graduate level business venture contests is the following:

The best business plan isn’t always the best venture.
The best venture usually has [...]

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