Events

Annual Business Plan Competition

The Seidman College of Business, Center for Entrepreneurship – Business Plan Competition serves to stimulate and nourish the Entrepreneurial Spirit at the undergraduate level. In particular, this Competition seeks to encourage entrepreneurially oriented undergraduate students to develop and grow new ventures based either on their own ideas. This Competition also seeks to provide the participating undergraduate students with forums in which they develop skills in pitching their ventures to investors and receive constructive feedback for increasing the probability of successfully launching their ventures. Finally, each year the Business Plan Competition will provide the “best” of these ventures with substantial resources to assist the “winning” student in launching its venture.

Teen Entrepreneur Summer Academy

The Teen Entrepreneur Summer Academy is a free, Grand Valley program
for students from grades 9 through 12. Students are who desire an opportunity
to learn the areas of networking, innovation, and entrepreneurship. This year, the
Academy will stretch over a three day period, focusing on the development of an
entrepreneurial idea, and the production of a publicized commercial. Students will
leave the academy with a professional portfolio piece and a University experience.
The winning teams of the competition will also receive cash prizes totalling $700.

The Competition spans across a three-day period. The first two consists of students organizing and developing their entrepreneurial concept, the third is reserved for the competition/presentation.

The 2009 Competition will focus around developing an entrepreneurial concept (product, service, etc.) and creating a professional marketing campaign for it. Students will learn valuable marketing tactics, and gain understand of how to sell one's original idea. The end result will be a professional commercial, which will be presented before judges, along with being showcased on our website.

Idea Pitch Competition

• Do you have an idea or concept for a new product, business or service?
• Do you have the drive and desire to become an entrepreneur and create a business or product of your own?