Vying for a $1,500 first place prize from the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship, teams of master’s business students from the University will showcase concepts at the Venture Quest business plan competition today in Rooms 211 and 212 of the Lillis Business Complex beginning at 9 a.m.
Ideas such as technology-based health care and environmental monitoring, multi-media mental development content for children, cell phone-enabled fan participation during sporting events, branded innovations for personal fitness and second-hand designer clothes will contend. According to graduate student and contestant Phil Ferranto, many are “technologies that have a chance of making a difference in the world.”
Winning teams from previous competitions have gone on to compete in national and international business plan events and launch new start-ups. This year’s winners have the option of traveling to Portland to compete in the New Venture Championships, one of the preeminent business plan competitions in the world.
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