Tufts Entrepreneurial Leadership Program
is in the business of ideas—inspiring them, polishing them and putting them to
work.
The program sponsors two annual business plan competitions
that award a total of $100,000 in cash and in-kind services. The competitions
encourage members of the Tufts community to take action on their ideas for
business or social ventures.
Tufts 5th
Annual 100K Entrepreneurship Competition
Business Plan Competition Finalist Presentations
$50K Classic Business Plan Competition
$50K Social Entrepreneurship Competition
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
1-5 pm
Tufts Gordon Institute
200 Boston Avenue, Suite 2400
Medford, MA 02155
Please join us as the competition finalists
present their business plans to a panel of
judges. An awards ceremony and reception will
immediately follow the presentations.
For directions, go to
http://gordon.tufts.edu/about/directions.asp
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50K Classic Business Plan Competition
The Classic Business Plan Competition will award a total of $50,000 in
cash and in-kind services to the winning plan(s).
Frequently Asked Questions
Relay Technology Management, Winner of the 2008
Classic Business Plan Competition
http://www.relaytm.com/Relay/Relay.html
The success of this year's Classic competition's winners, Brigham Hyde
and David Greenwald, was truly fueled by academic and professional
expertise. Both PhD candidates at Tufts Sackler School of Biomedical
Sciences, Hyde and Greenwald created Relay Technology Management, an
Intellectual Property Brokerage Firm focused on facilitating licensure
agreements between academic institutions and the
pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry. Relay is described on the companys
website as one that "facilitates the development and commercialization of
biomedical discoveries and technologies that have an impact on alleviating
disease."
Profile adapted from Eve Delaneys (Class of 2009) write-up
50K Social Entrepreneurship Competition
The Social Entrepreneurship Competition was created to encourage members
of the Tufts University community to think about developing new ventures
that benefit society. A total of $50,000 in cash and in-kind services will
be awarded to the winning plan(s).
Frequently Asked Questions
China Mobile Banking Company, Winner of the 2008
Social Entrepreneurship Competition
Chryssa Rask is CEO of China Mobile Banking Company and the winner of
Tufts' 2008 Social Entrepreneurship Competition. Her company will provide
mobile banking services (via smart phone) to rural-urban migrants in China.
She aims to make crucial financial services accessible to unbanked Chinese,
while simultaneously coordinating employment for impoverished Chinese women
as licensed village phone operators.
Of her plan, Rask states: "Microfinance and mobile banking are hot topics
right now, and doing work in the developing world is intriguing. Not only
does this plan have enormous potential for positive social change, but also
it has large potential to generate high revenues."
Profile adapted from Eve Delaneys (Class of 2009) write-up
