business plan competition

NEW ORLEANS (Press Release – January 13, 2012) – With today’s ever-challenging economy and difficulty for college graduates to find work, many students are choosing a less traditional path to success and employment.

With help from business competitions, like the Tulane Entrepreneurs’ Association Business competition, which partners with the Domain Companies New Orleans Entrepreneur Challenge, much-needed start-up capital is available to graduates ready to enter the workforce with a good, viable idea.

Chicago (Press Release – October 5, 2011) – The Clean Energy Trust (CET) announced today that it will expand the 2012 Clean Energy Challenge to include student business concepts from across the Midwest region.

The $100,000 Student Challenge grand prize, to be awarded March 1 in Chicago, is made possible by a grant from the U.S.

Department of Energy.

South San Francisco (PRESS RELEASE – April 18, 2011) – ATDynamics, Inc., the leading provider of fuel-saving rear-drag aerodynamics technology for tractor-trailers, is celebrating the 5th anniversary of winning the world’s richest and largest business plan competition in 2006 at Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Participating in and winning the Rice University Business Plan Competition in 2006 brought the Company immediate market and investor credibility, allowing the company’s founder to build a successful clean technology business.

Chicago (PRESS RELEASE – March 22, 2011) - Understanding the importance of small businesses and their contribution to economic development, MillerCoors continues its legacy of support by announcing the 2010-2011 MillerCoors Urban Entrepreneurs Series (MUES) competition winners.  MillerCoors established the business grant competition in 1999, and since has awarded over $1.5 million in grants to more than 100 emerging minority businesses.

Columbus, Ohio (PRESS RELEASE – March 16, 2011) – Venture Highway, which offers an integrated learning suite designed to augment university entrepreneurial education courses, announced that it will be the title sponsor of The Ohio State University 2011 Undergraduate Business Plan Competition.

This is the first year of the undergraduate competition, which is designed to accommodate the growing number of undergraduate student entrepreneurs.

Washington (PRESS RELEASE – July 30, 2010) - A $100,000 Prize and an inspiring keynote address headlined the 3rd Annual Small Business Awards today sponsored by the Washington, DC Economic Partnership (WDCEP)..

Miami, Florida (PRESS RELEASE – May 14, 2010) – When Darnell Skepple joined the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) Entrepreneurship Club at North Miami Beach High School, he hoped the skills he learned would take him places.

And they did: last week (May 2-9), they took him to San Francisco for a week of mentoring and job shadowing with senior leadership at the Virgin Group.

Washington (PRESS RELEASE – April 1, 2010) — The Washington, DC Economic Partnership(WDCEP) in collaboration with Advantage Capital Partners and Enhanced Capital Partners will kickoff its $100,000 Business Plan Competition on April 6 from 6:00-8:00pm at The Washington, DC Economic Partnership’s office located at 1495 F St NW.

Salem, Massachusetts (PRESS RELEASE – December 5, 2009) — The Enterprise Center at Salem State College today launched the sixth annual North of Boston Business Plan Competition designed to find and support early stage, start-up and existing growth businesses on the North Shore and Merrimack Valley.

(PRESS RELEASE - January 14, 2009) - Created in 2006, the Cartier Women’s Initiative Awards are an international business plan competition given annually to five laureates, one per continent.

For this third edition, we are looking for innovative women-led business projects in the start-up phase. Apply before February 13, 2009.

Who can apply?

Women entrepreneurs of any country and of any nationality are invited to apply by presenting a business project yet to be launched or a company less than 3 years old.