USF Business Plan Competition

Overview

about this year's competition:

On October 16th at the auditorium of the Lynn Pippenger Hall seven teams of a smart mix of undergraduate and graduate students were selected from to present their entrepreneurial innovations and get a chance to win $15,000. The students were selected based on a submission of a full written business plan.

This year’s competition was sponsored by  Gilbert Gonzalez, a  Muma College of Business alum (DBA ’17 and MBA’ 90)

2019 PARTICIPANTS

• Dream Scape- Taylor Morris, Xilong Jing, Biwei Jin, Brad Williams
• DS Academy- Alysson Silveira, Julian Heredia
• The Space- Julia Wingle, Robert Dennard III
• Touriffic- Robert Huggett, Qilin Li, Jesualdo Perez, Javier Ramirez
• No Flood Florida- Ahmed Hamed, Taylor Lankford, Chris Needham
• Vortex- Sonya Khan,Allison Timo, Thornthun Noppakaorattanamanee, Chang Yang
• EdukMais- Eduardo Mourra, Luiza Marques

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNING TEAM: 

ABOUT THE usf business plan competition

• Each year 5-8 USF students teams  will be invited to pitch their innovations 
• The pitch competition offers a unique opportunity to showcase ones business plan and present a 10 minute pitch before a panel of professionals (PowerPoint presentations might be used as visual aid). 
• Awards will be provided to the winner of the competition
• The winning team will represent USF at the Florida Venture Forum pitch competition

OUR GOALS

• To inspire USF students to start new businesses
• To teach valuable business skills
• To promote entrepreneurship across Florida
• To help students achieve success in the classroom and after they graduate

For more information, please contact entrepreneurship@usf.edu.

Applications are not currently open