Below you will find the "1-Page Application" for the 2012 Monterey Bay Regional Business Plan Competition, as well as an "Entry Form and Agreement".
*Forms must be submitted by the February 27 deadline or applicant will be disqualified. Participation in the March 9th "Fever-Pitch" Event at CSUMB is mandatory.
**If you are unable to attend a workshop in your area, you may view last year's YouTube instructional video by clicking here.
Complete the Entry Form Agreement and Application by 5:00 p.m. on Monday, February 27, 2012 and submit by mail or in person to:
Marina Technology Cluster
3180 Imjin Road, Suite 149
Marina, California, 93933
Attn: Adam Davis or Natalie Macdonald
OR via email to: Natalie.Macdonald@MarinaTechnologyCluster.org
OR in-person to Iris or Grace at NextSpace, 101 Cooper Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Entry Form and Agreement, Applications:
Click here to download the Entry Form and Agreement Click here to download the Venture Play and Main Street Application Click here to download the Student Application
The 2012 Monterey Bay Regional Business Plan Competition has established separate tracks for Main-Street, Student and Venture-Play companies.
A Venture-Play company will return 10X the investor's investment to him or her within three to five years. In order to do that, it is usually "scalable," that is, it can grow rapidly across the state, across the nation and, most likely, across the globe. So, a software company is easily scalable, as long as it can be adapted to different languages and cultures (see our friends at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and also Monterey Language Services.)
In contrast, a Main-Street Business might be a great idea for a town or region, but not for the whole nation. This is often because the business is personality driven or appeals to a specific region's demographics or even geography. So a business that thrives putting people into canoes on the Russian River and then shuttling them back in buses might do great in Sonoma County, but probably won't translate all that well on a large scale across the country.
That said, both types of companies are important for job creation. In the 2012 competition the cash prize for the Main-Street category is $5,000; the prize package for the Venture-Play category $50,000 in cash and services.
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