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Business Plan Contests

2010 - Invention2Venture Apprentice Challenge - 1

2011 - Invention2Venture Apprentice Challenge - 2

2012 - AU Startup Challenge

2013 - $9000 Business Plan Contest for Engineering Inventions

1. Click here for Contest announcement
2. Sample Business Plan Template
3. Template for Product Design & Development
4. Business Model Worksheet
5. Example of customer survey analysis
6. Competing design ideas from world leaders
7. Goldieblox video: How to take a vague idea to practical product, prototype, Internet marketing, and raising capital on the Internet
8. Goldieblox is for real: Hits the market in a few months
9. Market research
10. Customer Survey

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