Bart Gibby

The Capstone Business Plan Competition at Syracuse University

Posted on July 23rd, 2007 by Bart Gibby.
Categories: Business Plan Competitions, Entrepreneurs.

    The Capstone Business Plan Competition is held every fall and winter semester in the Department of Entrepreneurship and Emerging Enterprises at Syracuse University’s Whitman School of Management. The competition is actually a capstone class, whose purpose is to encourage students to apply in a real-world situation all of the information that they have acquired over the last four years of academic experience. This includes finance, accounting, strategy, production management, and organizational behavior. All graduating seniors are required to take the class.

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The Pace Business Plan Competition

Posted on July 22nd, 2007 by Bart Gibby.
Categories: Business Plan Competitions, Entrepreneurs.

    The Pace Business Plan Competition has been hosted by the Department of Management and Management Science in the university’s Lubin School of Business since 2004. The competition takes place every spring semester and is open to both undergraduate and graduate students of Pace, as well as recent graduates (defined by organizers as those who have graduated within the past five years).

    The contest is not one of the larger competitions in existence. There are no preliminary rounds, just the judges’ determination of three finalists based on the written business plan and executive summary, and the cash prize from winning the competition is only a total of $500. (The two other finalists earn $250 each.)

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Ball State University “Enterprise Creation Competition” Becomes The “Nascent 500”

Posted on July 21st, 2007 by Bart Gibby.
Categories: Business Plan Competitions, Entrepreneurs.

    Ball State University’s Miller College of Business Entrepreneurship Center recently dropped the “Enterprise Creation Competition” name they’d been using for their business plan competition for the last decade – in favor of something with a little more pizzazz.

    ”How can we stand out from the dozens of other competitions around the country?” organizers must have thought to themselves. “Our university is just an hour from one of the most famous auto races in the world. Let’s give our competition an Indianapolis 500 theme. Everything will have to fit with 500.” So, starting with the 2006-07 contest, Ball State’s “Enterprise Creation Competition” became the “Nascent 500″.

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