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At last official count in 2006 the Kauffman Foundation identified 353 business plan contests at colleges and universities.
They have frequent speakers from industry and special interest subgroups, and they even sponsor business plan contests.
Contrary to what the organizers of these competitions will tell you, university business plan contests don't produce winning companies.
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You scuttled their buyout plan, contesting the $36.26-a-share deal as woefully too low.
They are now partners in Lymphedivas, which was officially born in 2006 after they won third place in a business plan contest sponsored by Drexel University.
But according to Mr. Araújo, the fortunes of the company really changed when the partners decided to enter a business plan contest sponsored by the Brazilian government in 1997.
And I've won an award for a business plan submitted to a business plan contest.
Amazon, Google, Ebay, Yahoo none of them won a business plan contest.
I submit that losing in a business plan contest is actually more beneficial than winning.
In fact, not a single home run from that era won a business plan contest.
Altius Space Machines took home the top at NewSpace 2011's business plan contest for its vision of simplifying the process of wrangling out-of-control satellites and the like.
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