The Johns Hopkins University is proude to offer a Annual JHU Business Plan Competition. The competition is open to the applicants who must be a current part-time, full-time or Postdoctoral student of any of the nine divisions of Johns Hopkins University during the current academic year.
A total of $10,000 in prizes are up for grabs in each of their 4 categories ($6,000 for 1st place, $3,000 for 2nd place, and $1,000 for 3rd place). All submissions must be new ventures.
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Who May Eligible:
To eligible, the candidates must be following all the eligibility criteria:
- For all
categories, teams may include both Johns Hopkins University students
(undergraduate, graduate and/or post-docs) and non-JHU
affiliates; however, at least one team member must meet BOTH of the following
requirements:
- be a current part-time, full-time or Postdoctoral student of any of the nine divisions of Johns Hopkins University during the current academic year.
- be a member of the venture’s startup management team.
- All categories are open to entries from any division of Johns Hopkins and members of teams can span more than one division of the university.
How to Apply & Competitions Rules:
To participate in the competition,
Applicants need to do register through
the given link:
https://web.cvent.com/event/d64599ba-b8af-4e1a-9979-1c372b78823a/register
Rules:
- All submissions must be new ventures.
- By “new,” we mean ventures that are pre-profit and have less than $10,000 in outside investment funding as of August 2018.
- Ventures that have raised equity capital from sources other than the members of the student team or their friends and families before the current academic year, i.e., before August, 2018 that exceeds $10,000, are excluded.
- However, both student and other team members may have worked on an idea or new technology in previous academic years or in the case of the student team members even prior to entering Johns Hopkins University, provided that their venture had no revenues and raised no outside equity capital prior to the current academic year.
Benefits:
A total of $10,000 in prizes are up for grabs in each of our 4 categories
- $6,000 for 1st place
- $3,000 for 2nd place and
- $1,000 for 3rd place).
Application Deadline:
The application will close on April 26, 2019.
