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Entry

Entrants are encouraged to address the following points in their executive summaries:

Business Concept: What, precisely, is the product or service that you are trying to sell? What problem does your product or service solve? What types of people or companies suffer from this problem? What is the technology (if relevant) behind your product? Is your business model different from the industry standard?

Sales and Marketing: How big is the market? How many customers? Who, specifically, will you sell/provide services to? Why will they buy/consume? How do you position your product? How do you divide up your target niche and execute? How do you make money/what is your path to sustainability? What is the possible total revenue (if relevant)?

Competitive Advantage: Who is your competition/What other organizations provide the same service? How long have they been in business? What are their future prospects (revenue and growth projections, if relevant)? What alternative products or services already exist in the marketplace? Why are your idea and team better than the competition? What stops other people from copying you?

Financial Plan: Explain in more detail the assumptions used for revenue and expense projections. When does cash flow become positive? How much money are you planning to raise? When? What will you use it for? Where will you source the capital?

Management Team: Include a brief bio of each team member and the role that s/he will play in the venture.

Submission Pointers - All entrants are required to read these pointers.

• Email submission WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED!
•  An optional appendix for financials may be submitted.
  
  • Keep in mind that your plans will be printed out on a black and white laser printer.
  • All pages in the PDF must be in vertical orientation.
  • If you did not submit your entire PDF in vertical orientation and the resulting landscape pages get truncated, we can not help you.