Entrepreneurs, time to strap on your thinking caps
Entrants, sponsors sought for state contest
The organization that puts together a statewide business-plan contest for college students is seeking corporate sponsors and entrants for its spring event.
Nevada’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology is preparing for the third annual Donald W. Reynolds Governor’s Cup Business Plan Competition, which will award $200,000 in cash to aspiring entrepreneurs in the Silver State.
Though competitors don’t need to commit to the contest until Feb. 15, the center’s executives, along with university professors from across Nevada, are encouraging students to begin thinking now about business proposals.
Dave Archer, chief executive officer of Nevada’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology, said the agency is especially interested in proposals that combine disciplines, such as engineering and business or journalism and business. The center added a Lieutenant Governor’s Award in 2007 for energy-related business plans, and the Commissioners’ Award, new in 2008, will go to the commercial idea that best addresses the economic needs of rural Nevada. Panels of judges will sift through the plans in April.
Nevada’s winners will advance to a tristate competition against students from Oklahoma and Arkansas.
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