USF Business Plan Competition

Overview

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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: 

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2019 Winning team No Flood Florida

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

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 2019 Presentations

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2019 judges (from left to right) - Dr. Michael Fountain, Jennifer Sineway, Chon Nguyen, Skye Idehen , Dr. Pradeep Haldar, Gilbert Gonzalez, Tim Hangge

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 No Flood Florida team with USF Center for Entrepreneurship Director Dr. Michael Fountain (left) and Gil Gonzalez (right)

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No Flood Florida team receiving the plaque

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No Flood Florida team with the giant check