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* Jungle Business Plan Challenge - Jungle Media Group




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A mail-order contact-lens-replacement company in Draper, Utah. The business plan won the 1995 Brigham Young University tournament in Provo, Utah.
However, having good results in an important competition does not necessarily imply launching a company successfully. There is the risk that some investors consider your plan an academic exercise before really studying it and thus the percentage of trust is substantially reduced.
Innitially started as a valuable opportunity for the students with bright business ideas to express them within contest conditions, the business plan competitions have become a resource for some investors. There are two categories of results of such competitions:
* IBK Capital Ivey Business Plan Competition - University of Western Ontario
Although the organizers and sponsors are usually universities, there are several business organizations that host business plan competitions.


Held by business organizations
Competitions
It is also the case of Ford Motor Company that sponsored the Ford BEST (Building Entrepreneurial Success Today) Business Plan contest in association with SCORE "Counselors to America’s Small Business" and DiversityInc. The BEST Business Plan contest took place in the winter of 2004 and addressed all U.S. citizens over 18. All the submitted business plans were judged by an advisory panel from SCORE.
Competition: 1997,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], University of Chicago.



* Babcock Elevator Pitch Competition - Wake Forest University


* Duke Start-Up Challenge - Duke University
You would say that choosing from purely theoretical plans would be highly improbable for a venture investor. Yet, that's how many successful firms came into being.

Not in the last place, there is the valuable opportunity of pitching the business plans to quite a lot of investors in a very short time.
* OFC Venture Challenge - Clark Atlanta University






* Venture Bowl - National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Carrot Capital

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* Venture Adventure - Colorado State University
Besides the cash prizes, that, although quite important, will rarely suffice for financing the foundation of a company,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there is the advantage of learning from this experience - this will enrich students' knowledge in a greater degree than the mere theoretical aspects they learn from lectures.
You will wonder probably what exactly do these competitions consist of and where does their popularity come from?

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Business plan competitions are student entrepreneur events. The contests are organized either for graduate or undergraduate students and it does not necessarily have to be MBA students. The contestants may be student scientists, engineers, MDs or other specialists who strive to create a viable business plan hoping to enter such competitions.

In Cambridge, Mass., won the MIT competition in 1995.
Epotec Inc.

* Enterprise Creation Competition - Ball State University
* Moot Corp. Competition - University of Texas
* S.E.E.D. Business Plan Competition - TechKnowledge Point Corp.
The popularity of such contests also reached some other layers: business plan competitions are also organized with the purpose of giving people the possibility of starting a business. Business plan competitions usually happen as intercollegiate events,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but this contest formula has also been taken over by companies who want to facilitate the founding of new businesses.

Why the need to participate in such events?

How Do Winners Benefit?
An Internet recruiting and placement service in Atlanta. Competition: 1996, University of Georgia.
SensAble Technologies Inc.
The idea of a business plan competition first started in the 1980's at the initiative of some MBA students from Texas and has increasingly gained popularity. Such events happen yearly and rejoice a great affluence of contestants, which highly increases their competitiveness.