Business Plan Competitions (Compiled by Maureen Burke)

NEEIC $150K Energy Business Creation Competition : For entrepreneurs focussed on innovative energy technology. For deadlines and additional information, visit http://www.neeic.org/html/compete.html.

2007 Rice University Business Plan Competition 22-24 March 2007, Houston, TX: The Rice Business Plan Competition is the largest and richest intercollegiate business plan competition in the world. This year 36 teams from top MBA programs will be selected to compete at the Rice Business Plan Competition on March 22-24, 2007 for over $300,000 in cash and prizes; including $100,000 investment, $100,000 in cash, and $100,000 in prizes. For deadlines and additional information visit, http://www.alliance.rice.edu/alliance/RBPC.asp.

Annual McGinnis Venture Competition 15-17 March 2007: The McGinnis Venture Competition, hosted by Carnegie Mellon, offers cash prizes and an automatic berth in Moot Corp®. It's a different kind of competition because it revolves around emerging industries such as information technology, biotechnology, robotics, nanotechnology and telecommunications. Features two tracks: Technology and Life Science. Plus a new special award: Sustainable Technology.For additional information and registration please visit, http://www.mcginnisventurecompetition.com/Home.htm.

Global Social Venture Competition : The Global Social Venture Competition is the premier international business plan competition for business ventures with a social mission.

JP Morgan Good Venture Competition
Graduate students are also eligible for this competition. The deadline for graduate students is Friday, October 20th. The contact email for grad students is JPMorganGrad@goodventure.org mailto:JPMorganGrad@goodventure.org. See the web site for more information.
Registration is now open for your students to enter JP Morgan's 1st annual Good Venture competition! You will be receiving posters in the coming weeks highlighting this great socially conscious competition. We ask that you place these posters in the most visible place for students. We also ask that you please forward this on to all relevant club members, administrators and professors.
What: Good Venture offers your students the chance to make a difference. Students choose a nonprofit they believe in -- and enter a proposal to win funding for it from JPMorgan.
How: Teams of students will be asked to make the case for a non-profit of their choice. Finalists will pitch to an investment board of JPMorgan executives and the winning team will actually have their proposal funded.
Where: Finals will be held in New York City.
When: January 18th and 19th 2007
Registration ends November 27th, 2006 for undergrads. Registration ends October 20th for grad students.