January 27 @ 11pm PST - UC Berkeley Exec Summary Contest Open to Duke (w/ Berkeley Team Member)

If you're working on your Executive Summary for the Duke Start-Up Challenge and have a team member related to UC Berkeley (alum, faculty, student), can't hurt to submit your Executive Summary to the UC Berkeley business plan competition as well. They're giving away $50k.

From our friends at UC Berkeley:

Dear Vatsala, Shalav and Steven:

I represent the executive committee of the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition at the Haas School of Business. I would like to ask for your help in co-marketing our competition to your students.

The deadline for entrants is Wednesday, Jan 27 and students should apply here. Entry is free and winning teams will take home cash prizes of more than $50,000. We have only two rules governing entry.

• teams must have one team member somehow related to UC Berkeley; this can be faculty, alumni or current students
• business plans cannot have received any VC funding or funding more than $250k from non-VC sources

We have a teammate-matching spreadsheet available to help facilitate 1) above that can be found here. Please let me know if you can distribute to your peers on our behalf. Attached below is the marketing email calling for entrants that you may circulate as appropriate. Thank you.

Kind regards,

Everett Leonidas

MBA Candidate 2011

Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

e: everett_leonidas@mba.berkeley.edu

More info:

3-Page Executive Summaries for the 2010 UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition are due Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 by 11pm PST. Join the BPlan YouNoodle group and apply soon!

Entrant requirements

At least one team member must be a current student, faculty, staff or an alumnus/a of either the University of California at Berkeley or the University of California at San Francisco. Teams or team members that have received any form of venture capital financing or more than $250k of non-VC funding for their business plan may not participate in the competition.

About the competition

The 12th Annual UC Berkeley Plan Competition is an exciting opportunity to showcase your business venture to prominent Silicon Valley venture capital investors. Teams from all academic disciplines are encouraged to participate and win up to $30,000.

Click http://bplan.berkeley.edu for more details.