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BITS Pilani's B-plan contest
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November 14, 2008

What: Imagine getting a shot to pitch your idea to a guy who will give you USD 200,000 to make it a reality. Better still, imagine doing this when you're still in college.

 

Conquest 2009, BITS Pilani's International Business Plan Competition, currently in its sixth edition aims to become the largest student run business plan competition in India and is now accepting entries for its screening stage. It is organised by the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (CEL) at BITS.

 

Contestants can be students pursuing undergraduate or graduate studies in any recognised University from across the world or interested individuals from the corporate sector.

 

The winners this year receive the following benefits

CEL is also proud to announce that this year they have launched their online platform for Conquest, which has great features for building a business plan and will make evaluation a much simpler process. This is being done in collaboration with the India Development Gateway.

The platform can be accessed here: http://conquest.cel-bits.org/

   

The Business Plans can be based on any sector and past winners have presented their plans relating to the health, leisure, manufacturing and even neuroscience sectors.

 

Judges include the creme de la creme from the corporate as well as academic sectors. This also includes venture capitalists and investors from firms such as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Siemens Venture Capital amongst others. For the ever expanding full list of judges visit here http://conquest.cel-bits.org/judges.html

 

To submit your entries before November 22, 2008 visit: http://conquest.cel-bits.org/

 

For Rules of the Business Plan Competition visit: http://conquest.cel-bits.org/rules.html

 

For more resources for Business Plan competition visit: http://conquest.cel-bits.org/resources.html

 

The deadline for sending the entries is November 22, 2008.

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