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2011 Business Plan Competition & Workshops

UWB Bothell Business Plan Competition
Final Round

May 6^th 4-7 PM, Mobius Hall

Join us Friday, May 6th from 4 to 7PM in Mobius Hall for the Final Round of the UW Bothell Business Plan Competition. Come watch the final four teams compete head-to-head in front of Puget Sound CEO's, Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors for a grand prize worth over $20,000 in cash and prizes. The evening festivities will include food, raffles and lots of great energy as you witness these young entrepreneurs compete for a chance to launch their first business.

Our distinguished panel of judges includes:

Trisha Gross – President and CEO, Hubspan
Steve Holland - Professor, Business Program, UW Bothell
Dave Parker - Executive Director, Founder Institute
Scott Bright -- Founder & CEO Synapse
Lou Gray - Founder and Former CEO Dreambox and current angel investor

Our sponsors have provided some great items to raffle off during the event, including an Xbox-Kinect Bundle, a $300 gift card from Nordstrom's, a $100 gift card from the Microsoft Store, a $100 gift card from the Apple Store, and more.

Our finalists include:

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Come join in the action and watch this next generation of business leaders share their entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen!

Business Plan Competition Semi-Final Round Friday April 22nd, 4-7PM, UW1 Vista 2

3:00 – 3:30 Teams Arrive and Set-Up

3:30 – 3:50 Teams Mingle in 2^nd Floor Vista

4:00 – 4:25 1^st Team Presentation

4:30 – 4:55 2^nd Team Presentation

5:00 – 5:25 3^rd Team Presentation

5:30 – 5:55 4^th Team Presentation

6:00- 6:30 Judges’ Deliberation / Teams Mingle

6:30 – 7:00 Judges’ Feedback

7:00 Announcement of Finalists!

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Business Plan Competition Deadline Approaching

Two (2) printed copies of the business plan must be delievered to the UW Bothell Business Development Center by close of business, 31 March 2011. At that time the UW Bothell BDC will be located in suite 104 of the new Beardslee building, 18807 Beardslee Boulevard, Bothell, WA 98011. The Beardslee building (UWBB) is located north of the north campus entrance at Beardslee Blvd and 110th Ave NE.on Beardslee Blvd. See our Events page for a detailed timeline of the Business Plan Competition.

Palo Alto Software Helps Sponsor UW Bothell
BDC Business Plan Competition

The UW Bothell Business Development Center is happy to announce that Palo Alto Software will provide teams competing in our Business Plan Competition a free license to their highly acclaimed Business Plan Pro software.

Student teams who want a license must email the name, email address, and program affiliation of all members of the team requesting the license for Business Plan Pro to UWB.BDC@gmail.com. (Examples for program affiliation might be CUSP, IAS, CSS, BUS, etc. Cascadia students should list Cascadia). Teams may be of any size, and may add or remove members between now and the end of the competition. Please do not request more than one copy of Business Plan Pro per team. After the information has been received you will be emailed back instructions for downloading the software. For detailed competition rules please visit the Business Plan Competition Rules page.

UW Bothell BDC Business Plan Competition & Workshops

On May 6th, 2011 the UW Bothell Business Development Center will host its first annual Business Plan Competition with $20,000 in prizes. To compete all you need is a creative idea and a well written business plan. And if you have the idea, we’ll help you get your plan written!

Starting January 20th, the UW Bothell BDC will host five workshops presented by successful entrepreneurs. By completing the workshop series and using Business Plan Pro, all of the students will be able to craft business plans to meet the new March 31st deadline for submission in order to be eligible for the $20,000 in cash and prizes. Although the workshops are not required in order to compete, they are highly recommended. Video recordings of completed workshops can be found on the Business Plan Workshops page. For detailed competition rules please visit the Business Plan Competition Rules page.

All workshops are on Thursdays from 5:45-7:45PM in UW2-005:

January 20 Business Plan Overview - Mary Jane Piolo,
MJ Pioli and Company

January 27 Marketing - Mattew Moore, Winshuttle

February 10 Finance - Roderick Carmichael,
Italian Country Home and Kitchen

February 17 Operations - Jim Jindrick, McGuire Center
for Entrepreneurship, University of Arizona

March 3        Management Team & Exit Strategy -
                       Elon Gasper, Director, Advisory Board,
                       Corum Group Ltd.

For more information about the Workshop Series, or the Business Plan Competition, please read our brochure or email John Godek at jgodek@uwb.edu.

Want To Be An Entrepreneur?

Join the Business Development Center on Thursday, January 6th from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the North Creek Events Center for the Winter Entrepreneur Fest.

Learn how to become a successful entrepreneur from CEO's: Karen Howlett, McSweeny Steele; Laura Berry, Soundview Medical; Kyra Gray, D.E. Hokanson and Debbie Oberbillig, Allen Partners. Discussion to be moderated by Mary Jane Pioli.

This FREE event is open to all students the university community and the community at large. See our brochure for more details on this informative event. We look forward to seeing you there.

2011 Workshops

Starting January 20th, the UW Bothell BDC began hosting five workshops presented by successful entrepreneurs. By completing the workshop series and using Business Plan Pro, all of the students attending should be able to craft business plans to meet the new March 31st deadline for submission in order to be eligible for the $20,000 in cash and prizes. Although the workshops are not required in order to compete, they are highly recommended. Video recordings are posted below for the first two workshops:

All workshops are on Thursdays from 5:45-7:45PM in UW2-005:

January 20 Business Plan Overview - Mary Jane Piolo,
MJ Pioli and Company

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