University of Maryland $75K Startup Challenge

University of Maryland $75K Startup Challenge
Entries are due February 22. Visit www.bpc.umd.edu for details!

The UMD $75K Startup Challenge is an intensive business model competition for students, staff, faculty, postdocs and recent alumni at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the University of Maryland, Baltimore to leverage their talent and ideas to create tomorrow's leading companies.

INNOVATE!
Take your research or great idea and start a company!

Enter the UMD $75K Startup Challenge by February 22, 2013 with just an executive summary and a three-minute video pitch.

Interested initial entrants can take advantage of Innovation Office Hours, offered weekly on campus, for advice in preparing submissions. Visit www.ioh.umd.edu for a complete schedule.

ACCELERATE!
Advance your company with the credibility that comes from completing the business model canvas and customer development process through a premier competition.

Up to nine finalists will be invited to complete the new Maryland-Corps (M-Corps) program, where teams are guided through an intensive business model development and customer development process modeled after the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps (I-Corps).

WIN CASH!
Potentially win a share of thousands in cash prizes and in-kind services.

The competition has awarded nearly $700K to companies originating at the University of Maryland since 2001.

Winners are eligible for a free year in the TERP Startup Lab.

Find out more at: www.bpc.umd.edu

Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech)
A. James Clark School of Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742
301.405.3889