Nov 30, 2006, Register Now for Bio-Life-Tech Princeton
This is the last chance to register for Early State East's
sell-out event Bio-Life-Tech Princeton. Bio- Life-Tech
Princeton focuses on early stage companies involved in life
science, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical
instrumentation and the related emerging technologies. The
conference will bring 200+ entrepreneurs, CEOs, VCs and
investors together in one the East Coast's hot beds of life
science innovation and investment.
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Nov 21, 2006, $100,000 in Business Plan Competition for
Energy Companies
A syndicate of investors and professional service firms
have organized to launch a new collaborative and a $150,000
business plan competition aimed at cultivating and recognizing
New England's energy community.
The group will be known as the New England Energy
Innovation Collaborative (NEEIC), and is being sponsored by
investment firms General Catalyst Partners, Atlas Venture and
Advanced Technology Ventures, along with law firms Choate,
Hall & Stewart and Mintz Levin, public relations firm fama
PR, marketing firm Hunt & Gather and the MIT
Entrepreneurship Center.
The contest is open to any individual or group with
proprietary, innovative energy technology (or an innovative
services business model) that has not yet received venture
capital funding and that plans to establish its business
within New England. NEEIC plans to announce winners of its
competition on March 10, 2007 at the MIT Energy Conference.
Submissions for the competition are due Jan. 22, 2007.
Nov 18, 2006, Win an Island in Second Life Business Plan
Competition
In an effort to foster entrepreneurialism within Second
Life, Edelman and The Electric Sheep Company are teaming up to
sponsor a Second Life Business Plan competition.
Have you dreamt of that great idea but lacked the resources
to get it off the ground? Now may be your chance. Over the
next few months, Second Life will be accepting business plan
entries, and the winner of the contest can gain sole access to
a Second Life private island for 6 months, as well as
L$350,000 seed money, and strategic guidance from Edelman and
The Electric Sheep Company. Two runners-up can win L$100,000.
Your business needs to be focused on the Second Life
community, but there are no requirements as to what kind of
business, i.e. it can be a product or service business, and
you can include non-Second Life components such as a Website
or machinima. Interested entrepreneurs should submit a
business plan of no more than 2,000 words by December 20th, by
e-mailing ventures[at]electricsheepcompany.com. Join the “SL
Business Plan Contest” group in Second Life for notices
about this event.
[Note: If you don't understand this announcement any better
than I do, it's probably not your type of competition.]
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Nov 8, 2006, Super Exposure in FinNode-Red Herring
Business Plan Competition
FinNode and Red Herring have teamed up to find innovative
ideas about how to harness the power and the ubiquity of
mobile devices. (Honest, that's their definition, not mine.)
With the considerable worldwide power of both companies, the
winners can expect lots of exposure in the press, an
opportunity to create their idea, and access to venture
capitalists.
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Nov 8, 2006, Early Stage Business Plan Competition in
India
Canaan Partners, an international venture capital firm, and
TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) come together to organize 'TiE -
Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge', a national level business
plan competition in India with the intent of supporting
entrepreneurship in India and recognizing entrepreneurs at an
early stage.
'TiE - Canaan Entrepreneurial Challenge', is a business
plan competition where applicants will go through two rounds
of evaluation and selection. In every round, these
participants will get feedback on their proposals.
The venture capital market in India is exploding, and this is
an excellent opportunity to put your company in front of very
important investors.
Nov 5, 2006, Great Lakes Entreprenuer Quest Competition
Nov. 7 is the deadline for Phase-1 of the Great Lakes
Entrepreneur's Quest.
Registration for Phase-1 of the Great Lakes
Entrepreneur’s Quest Business Plan Competition closes on
Nov. 7, but teams have until Dec. 15 to submit their five-page
executive summary. Twenty seven companies are already
registered in the competition. This year, the top ‘Emerging
Company’ in the statewide competition will be awarded
$25,000. Recently, nine alumni of the GLEQ program captured
over $17 million in awards from the 21st Century Jobs Fund.
Oct 29, 2006, Rhode Island Business Plan Competition
The Rhode Island Business Plan Competition today announced
that it will hold the first statewide Elevator Pitch-Off on
Nov. 9, at which participants will present their business
ideas in 90 seconds to a panel of judges and get immediate
feedback and a chance to win cash prizes.
The event, co-sponsored with the Brown Forum for
Enterprise, is open to anyone, but pre-registration is
required.
Oct 4, 2006, Ready to Launch? Present Your Company!
SVASE (Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs)
is hosting an event called “Launch: Silicon Valley” on
November 8 at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View,
California. SVASE is looking for new companies that are ready
for launch or have launched recently. If you want to nominate
a company, please email a two-page executive summary to:
LaunchSV@svase.org.
Sep 28, 2006, Snowe-Kerry Introduce Tax Credit For Angel
Investors
Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) and Sen. John F. Kerry
(D-Mass.), the chair and ranking member of the Senate
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, today
introduced the "Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Act
of 2006 (ACE)," legislation (S. 3950) that would
encourage equity investments in small businesses by providing
"angel investors" with a tax incentive to fund new
small business enterprises. Contact your Senator to encourage
passage of this act.
Sep 28, 2006, The Best of the Southwest in Early Stage and
Emerging Companies
Invest Southwest is searching for the Best of the Southwest
-- the region's 10 most promising early stage and emerging
growth companies.
The Feb. 22 conference is the successor to the Arizona
Venture Capital Conference and the Arizona Angel Investment
Conference.
The 10 selected companies will present their business plans
to qualified investors from across the country, including
representatives of venture capital and private equity firms,
and angel investors. Applicants must be seeking a minimum of
$250,000 to $5 million in equity capital.
Sep 16, 2006, Pick up $50,000 in Business Plan Competition
The Maryland Department of Business and Economic
Development said Thursday it would match the $25,000 prize the
Chesapeake Innovation Center is offering in its new business
plan competition for homeland security startups, doubling the
winnings.
Chesapeake Innovation Center officials say the marketplace
is still hungry for innovative "informatics" firms,
companies using software to comb reams of data for patterns
and insights into potential security risks, and hopes the
business plan competition can help unearth them.
The grand prize was initially set at $25,000, but Gov.
Robert Ehrlich said in a statement Thursday that, by raising
the prize to $50,000, the state was intent on
"challenging Maryland's best and brightest to develop
innovative technology that will ultimately serve to defend our
nation."
Sep 6, 2006, Woman of the Year Nominations Due Oct 15
Third Annual Women of the Year Award nominations are due
Oct. 15, 2006.
OPEN from American Express and Entrepreneur magazine will
honor one outstanding woman entrepreneur as Woman of the
Year. If you are the woman business owner who best exemplifies
the qualities needed to be truly successful in business today
-- competitiveness, compassion and clarity of vision -- you
could be our winner.
To qualify, a woman business owner must be a founder of the
business; own at least 51% of her business; be actively
involved in day-to-day operations; have been in business for
at least one full year; have 2005 sales of at least $1
million; and have fewer than 100 employees.
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$85,000 in Grants Goes to Minority Owned
Businesses
Six entrepreneurs in the Pennsylvania
Minority Business Development Center's Sixth Minority Business
Plan Competition are now $85,000 richer, coming out ahead in a
field of 160 contestants.
The awards are as follows:
* Robin's Desserts & Bakery of
Philadelphia, healthy food alternative for baked goods/whole
foods/produce. Owner: Jerome Shabazz. Winner of $25,000 Growth
Innovation Award sponsored by The Enterprise Center.
* Heritage Capital Services, a
Conshohocken, Pa., mortgage broker that originates residential
and commercial loans. Owner: Lisa Salley. Winner of the$25,000
Business Innovation Award sponsored by The Enterprise Center.
* Eats Food Market of Philadelphia,
gourmet food products. Owner: Radiant Dixon. Winner of $10,000
Food Retailer Award sponsored by The Reinvestment Fund.
* Philadelphia Diamond Co., special and
customized jewelry. Owner: Kenyatta Black. Winner of the
$10,000 Neighborhood Retailer Award sponsored by Neighborhood
Transformation Initiative.
* OmPay LLC of Philadelphia, cashless
technologies to government agencies and private operators in
the transportation market. Owner: Nitin Khanna. Winner of the
$10,000 Teckhnology Trailblazer Award sponsored by
GlaxoSmithKline.
* Art Official, urban clothing line
focused on positive messages to uplift the African-American
community. Owner: Gary Carr of Philadelphia. Winner of the
$5,000 Emerging Fashion Business Award sponsored by The Enterprise
Center.
The Enterprise Center was founded in 1989
by the Wharton Small Business Development Center to fuel
minority entrepreneurship in urban communities. It operates the
Pennsylvania Minority Business Development Center.
Congratulations to everyone who
participated. It
is refreshing to see a competition of this caliber targeted to
minority businesses.
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