Monthly Archives: May 2010

Soluto wins the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield

Posted on May 27, 2010 by joeh

by Joe H. Okay, so Soluto was declared the victor of TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, a high-profile and extremely well-staged startup competition that progressed over the past three days as part of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York. The Israel-based … Continue reading →

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TechCrunch’s disruptive entrepreneurship competition

Posted on May 24, 2010 by joeh

TechCrunch will be giving away $50,000 on Wednesday to the last team standing after 3 days of competition at its Startup Battlefield. The Startup Battlefield is a central feature of the TechCrunch Disrupt conference that began today in New York … Continue reading →

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Top 10 ways to win a business plan competition

Posted on May 20, 2010 by joeh

Most entrepreneurship competitions provide entrants with some kind of general guideline for what should or shouldn’t be included in the business plan and the presentation. But wouldn’t it be nice to know actual judges’ expectations (or pet peeves) before you … Continue reading →

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Student success BUILDs from a business plan competition

Posted on May 19, 2010 by joeh

The statistics on the website BUILD.org are jaw-dropping: 100% of BUILD graduates, all high school students in tough areas, go on to attend college. 80% of them are the first in their families to attend college 95% stay in college … Continue reading →

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Business plan competition v. business model competition

Posted on May 18, 2010 by joeh

At first we named this site entrepreneurshipcompetitions.com. We were convinced it was the most inclusive yet precise moniker for the competitions we were displaying and reporting on. But we quickly set that name aside, and changed to bizplancompetitions.com, for several reasons: … Continue reading →

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Using Vator.tv to host your competition

Posted on May 17, 2010 by joeh

by Joe Here’s an intriguing and easy way for an organizer to promote and even conduct a business plan competition: stage it on Vator.tv. That’s what the organizers of the UC Irvine Business Plan Competition at The Paul Merage School of … Continue reading →

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