 | | | | The Enterprise Challenge Guidelines
Intent to submit Business Plans are due on February 5, 2010 to Mary McKillop. Business Plans are due on February 19, 2010 by 12:00 p.m. (noon) at Weatherford Hall, D106. Plans should be submitted as one hard copy version and one electronic version.
Business Plan Guidelines:
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Plans are limited to 20 pages (typed, double-spaced, #12 font, and 1-1-1-1 margins) of text, including the executive summary and summary financial data.
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Detailed spreadsheets and appropriate appendices may follow the text portion of the plan but are limited to 10 pages.
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In total, the plan is limited to 30 pages. (title page and table of contents do not count against this)
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For ease in handling, all copies of business plans must be professionally bound, for example spiral bound.
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Three-ring binders are not acceptable.
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Plans must include a cover page that lists the following:
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Names and contact information for all team members
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Name of student presenter
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Your enterprise name must be identified on the cover page, and plan must include page numbers.
a. Profit and Loss Statement:
c. Balance Sheets:
c. Cash Flow Statement
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Teams are highly encouraged to integrate summary financial information into the business plan text.
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Include an explanation of the offering to investors indicating how much money is required, how it will be used, and the proposed structure of the deal, i.e., stock, debentures, etc. The team is not required to reveal its desired deal, although judges are entitled to ask questions about it.
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Plans should be submitted to The Austin Entrepreneurship Program, D106 Weatherford Hall. For further information, contact Mary McKillop at mary.mckillop@bus.oregonstate.edu or 541.713.8044.
Competition - The Enterprise Challenge 2010
Presentation Guidelines:
Teams selected to present at The Enterprise Challenge will have the opportunity to demonstrate their venture to judges and the general public.
Each team is to create a tabletop display of its product/new enterprise for trade show. The trade show will offer teams a first look at their competition in an informal setting and will also provide the judges the opportunity to visit with each team.
In the finals presentation round, each team will be given 8 minutes to present its business plan followed by a 7-minute question and answer session between the presenting team and the judges. THESE TIME LIMITS WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED.
Teams may not observe the presentation of competing teams, or question and answer sessions until after they have presented their own plan. A team, once it has finished its presentation, may observe both the presentation and Q&A session of the teams that follow it.
Equipment needs: the presentation room will be set up with a LCD projector and screen. Each team presentation will be pre-loaded onto a university provided computer.
Confidentiality, Intellectual Property, and other Guidelines:
The authors of the business plan will retain all rights to the plan regarding its use at all times prior to and following the competition except as stated below. Due to the nature of the competition, we will not ask judges, reviewers, staff or the audience to agree to or sign non-disclosure statements for any participant.
Each team is responsible for managing its intellectual property.
All public sessions of the competition, including but not limited to oral presentations and question/answer sessions, are open to the public at large. Any and all of these public sessions may be broadcast to interested persons through media which may include radio, television and the Internet. Participants should not assume any right of confidentiality in any data or information discussed, divulged or presented in any public session.
The Austin Entrepreneurship Program and Oregon State University reserve the right to make photocopies, photographs, videotapes (DVDs) and/or audiotapes of the presentations including the business plan and other documents, charts or material prepared for use in presentation at The Enterprise Challenge. Teams retain all proprietary rights. By submitting a business plan in The Enterprise Challenge, teams also grant Oregon State University and the Austin Entrepreneurship Program non-exclusive world rights in all languages, and in all media, to use or to publish the materials in any book, other printed materials, videotapes or other medium, and to use the materials and derivative products thereof in future editions.
Dissemination of the business plan submitted to The Enterprise Challenge will be governed by FERPA.
The Enterprise Challenge offers prize monies to support the development of new ventures by Oregon State University students. In this spirit, The Enterprise Challenge prize monies will be awarded to students to support milestones that will be individually defined by each prize winning student team and AEP.
An initial award of $500 will be made to the team upon organization of the team into a company (LLC, subchapter S, etc.). The remainder of the prize money and the payment schedule for it will be individually decided by each winning student team and AEP consistent with the agreed upon milestones.
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