Author Profile: Megan Hurley

About Megan Hurley

Co-founder of Bizplancompetitions.com. 2009 graduate of Nazareth College (Rochester, NY) who enjoys riding horses and motorcycles (in that order).

What you’ll learn at business plan bootcamp – Wrap-Up

This past Wednesday night was the final session of the High Tech Rochester series of business plan workshops. Instead of another instructional lecture, this session allowed several participants to get up and do a practice run of their business pitch … Continue reading

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What You’ll Learn at Business Plan Boot Camp – Day 3

As the last “instructional” session of the High Tech Rochester Business Plan Workshops, this class sort of wrapped everything up, and placed an emphasis of the actual writing of a business plan and its components. Most of what was discussed … Continue reading

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Stretching the definition of competition

There ought to be labeling laws for business plan competitions. Well, maybe not – we probably have too many laws already. But what strikes us as a bit odd are some of the contests we see promoted “business plan competitions” … Continue reading

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What You’ll Learn at Business Plan Boot Camp – Day 2

By Megan Last week I reported on Day 1 of High Tech Rochester’s Business Plan Workshops. This week’s session (Day 2) covered two different areas – Funding Your Business (The Financials Section) and Communicating Your Business Plan.

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World’s richest business plan competition

Rice University promotes its student business plan competition as the world’s richest and largest. And who can argue? With yesterday’s announcement that the NASA Johnson Space Center has added another prize – this one the $50,000 “Game Changer” Commercial Space … Continue reading

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What You’ll Learn at Business Plan Boot Camp – Day 1

By Megan Last week, I attended the initial session of High Tech Rochester’s series of business plan workshops. Geared toward helping the Rochester Regional Business Plan Competition participants hone their business plan writing and presenting skills, the workshop was typical … Continue reading

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