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Rice Alliance

As I looked up from my business plan reading chores yesterday, I saw an email from the business school at Rice University announcing that this year’s Rice Business Plan competition is setting a record with more than $1 million in prize money. Congratulations to Brad Burke and his team for building this competition up in [...]

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Lora Kolodny has a nice piece on How to Win a Business Plan Competition in last week’s New York Times. Since their advent in 1984, when the University of Texas at Austin held its first “Moot Corp,” business plan competitions have proliferated within academia and beyond. More than 50 American colleges and universities host them. [...]

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