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Camino Real Venture Competition |
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Camino Real Venture Competition
March 4 - 5, 2011
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DATE
March 4 - 5, 2011
LOCATION
University of Texas El Paso, College of Business Administration
BACKGROUND
The Camino Real Venture Competition’s (CRVC) primary purpose is to provide a venue for young entrepreneurs to develop a business concept from planning stage, to start up, and hopefully to product commercialization.
Student teams will present business plans based on innovative technologies to a group of judges consisting of successful business people, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other business experts. Teams will submit a written business plan to the judges prior to the event and will be expected to participate fully in the Competition. The Competition will consist of a Venture Forum, 60 Second Elevator Pitch, and the PowerPoint presentation of the business plan.
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The University of Texas at El Paso - College of Business Administration |
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ELIGIBILITY
The CRVC is for student created, managed, and owned ventures. In other words, students must (1) have played a major role in conceiving the venture, (2) have key management roles in the venture, and (3) own significant equity in the venture. Non-students may be members of the venture’s management team and may participate in planning the venture. However, only students may participate in the Competition.
The maximum number of students on a Competition Team is five (5); although there is no restriction on the total size of the venture’s founding team. At least one (1) of the members of the Competition Team must be a graduate student. Team members can be pulled from all academic disciplines. In order to be eligible to be on the Competition Team students must have been enrolled for at least one (1) semester of the Academic Year in which the Competition is held.
The following schools are allowed to send up to two teams:
REQUIREMENTS
Entry Forms and Written Business Plan
Each school must submit a Binding Intent to Compete Form in order to reserve slots for their Teams in the CRVC.
Each Team must submit a Team Competition Entry Form detailing the names of team members and a Project description. This Form certifies that all work on the Business Plan by all Team Members is original.
Teams must submit an electronic copy of the Written Business Plan in English. Plans should be:
Plans should be submitted to Nancy Lowery at nlowery@bnsl.org
Venture Forum & Elevator Pitch
All Teams will participate in a Venture Forum and Opening Reception. This will allow each Team to display poster, prototypes and other material relevant to their technology and business plan to an audience of entrepreneurs, investors, academics and their peers. During the Forum one (1) team member will present a 60 Second Elevator Pitch to this same audience.
PowerPoint/Oral Presentations
In the Opening Round each team will be given 15 minutes to present its business plan followed by a 20-minute question and answer session between the presenting team and the judges. Teams will then participate in Feed Back Rounds. Teams that are selected to go onto the Finals round will present the second day of competition. All Team not in the Finals round will present in Challenge rounds. In these each team will be given 20 minutes to present its business plan followed by up to 25 minutes of question and answer. THESE TIME LIMITS WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED. Each member of the team must participate in the formal presentation of the plan.
JUDGING
Judges
Judging panels will const of successful business people, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other business experts. Judges reserve the right to alter prize amounts. The decisions made by the judging panels are final.
Judging Criteria
Judges will evaluate the written plan and the oral presentation. Judges will score the materials presented in the following manner: Judges Evaluation Form
These quantitative measures will depend upon the qualitative evaluation of the judges.
Judging will focus on:
Ownership/Disclosure
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.
Contestants must abide by the laws governing intellectual property. All use of copyrighted or trademarked materials may be used only with the express permission of the owners. Contestants must acknowledge their use of these materials.
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. Any data or information discussed or divulged in public sessions by entrants should be considered information that will likely enter the public realm, and entrants should not assume any right of confidentiality in any data or information discussed, divulged or presented in these sessions.
Contestants agree to allow the Camino Real Venture Competition, and the Bi-national Sustainability Laboratory, to make photocopies, photographs, videotapes and/or audiotapes of the presentations including the business plan and other documents, charts or material prepared for use in presentation at the CRVC. Students retain all proprietary rights. The Competition may use the materials in any book or other printed materials and any videotape or other medium that it may produce, provided that any profits earned from the sale of such items is used by The Competition solely to defray the costs of future Camino Real Venture Competitions. The Competition has 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 in future editions thereof and derivative products.
IMPORTANT DATES AND FORMS
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Monday, October 25, 2010 - Submission of Binding Intent to Compete Form
Monday, January 24, 2011 - Submission of Team Competition Entry Form
Monday, February 14, 2011 - Submission of electronic copy of the Competition Written Business Plan to Nancy Lowery at nlowery@bnsl.org
Monday, February 14, 2011 - Submission of Team Eligibility, Permission and Prize Money Forms
Thursday, March 3, 2011 - Arrive in El Paso
March 4 to 5, 2011 - Camino Real Venture Competition.
May 2011 - Global Moot Corp® Competition
ISSUES NOT COVERED BY THIS DOCUMENT
All questions not answered by this website can be directed to Nancy Lowery at: nlowery@bnsl.org or Lidia Caraveo at: acaraveo@gmail.com
