UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition 2009-2010
Founded in 1999, the competition has evolved to become the marquee entrepreneurship event at Berkeley, and one of the nation’s foremost business plan competitions, nurturing entrepreneurial action across the UC Berkeley community.
| Group type: | Competition |
| Focus: | Business Plans |
| Organizer: | Student-run |
| Funding: | Corporate Sponsors, Self-generated Revenue |
| Industries: | Biotech, Cleantech, Computing, Education, Entertainment, Financial, Food and Drink, Gaming, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Mobile, Nanotech, Real Estate, Retail, Sports, Travel |
| Location: | Berkeley, CA |
| Website: | http://bplan.berkeley.edu |
ABOUT US
Founded in 1999, the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition has continued to evolve as a leading Bay Area event and one of the nation's foremost business plan competitions.
The competition gives students, alumni and local entrepreneurs the opportunity to work together to turn innovative ideas into real businesses. The event also brings together the finest research and technology ideas from both UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. Each year participants develop business plans that are based on some of the most exciting new technologies. Last year more than 200 aspiring entrepreneurs entered plans in areas as diverse as nanotechnology, biotechnology, computing services and software, consumer goods, financial services, and the Internet.
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Lisa DeLuca
B.Sc(Computer Sc.) from Carnegie Mellon Uni. (2005) and M.Sc.(Tech. Commercialization) from Uni. of Texas, McCombs School of Business(2010). Worked at IBM, San Francisco CA(Software Engineer)(05-06) and currently is a Staff Software Engineer there.
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Open to talented, driven programmers. Server side: MySQL, PHP. Client-side: Javascript, Jquery. Mobile Coding: iphone, android, etc. Main Criteria: Outgoing people who wants to do BIG things. Go big or go home mentality.
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Opinno, Open Innovation
Opinno is a business accelerator based in Madrid, Boston and San Francisco. We bridge technologies from seed to series A funding, providing the following services: Business plan definition, IP protection, CEO sourcing, and VC roadshows
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Wyzzle
Social shopping platform that provides a comprehensive online solution for both consumers and retailers
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A friendly note that the next UC Berkeley Entrepreneurial Best Practice Session is "SECRETS TO THE SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS PITCH: A VC PERSPECTIVE" and will be on March 1st at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. The Best Practice series are always open to all!
Additional details located here:
http://entrepreneurship.berkeley.edu/resources/bestpracti...
A friendly note that the next UC Berkeley Entrepreneurial Best Practice Session is "Building Better Business Models" and will be on Feb 9th, 2010 - at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business (Room change: Andersen Auditorium). The Best Practice series are always open to all!
Additional details located here:
http://entrepreneurship.berkeley.edu/resources/bestpracti...
Another Exciting Event, hosted by the UC Berkeley Engineering Department:
*BEARS Business Plan Poster Session*
Extra opportunity to test your ideas in front of real VCs
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010
Time: 12:00noon-2:00pm
Location: Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge
BEARS is an annual symposium where Berkeley Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department exhibit its brightest achievements to date.
This event attracts many VCs and industry partners and provides /*YOU*/, a team in the BBPC 2010, a great opportunity to get feedback before the
next phase of the competition.
This event in the past has been met with great enthusiasm. Please register at:
http://BerkeleyEntrepreneurship.info
You can also find out more about BEARS at:
http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/BEARS/
For more information, please contact: jike@berkeley.edu
A friendly note that the next UC Berkeley Entrepreneurial Best Practice Session is "Building Better Business Models" and will be on Feb 9th, 2010 - at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. The Best Practice series are always open to all!
Additional details located here:
http://entrepreneurship.berkeley.edu/resources/bestpracti...
A reminder that the 3-page executive summary for the UC Berkeley Business Plan competition is due on January 27, 2010.
Further details and the Executive Summary Package are located on the UC Berkeley Business Plan website: http://bplan.berkeley.edu
Thanks and Good Luck!