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  • Silicon Valley Business Plan Competition 2010

    05 May 2010
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  • Table of contents:

    1. Business Plans due by May 8th, 2010
    2. Business Plan Format and Outline
    3. Business Plan Judging criteria
    4. Judges for SVBPC 2010
    5. Any Questions?

  • 1. Business Plans due by May 8th, 2010

    Participants – don’t forget to upload your Business Plans by 11:59pm on May 8th, 2010.

    To upload your Business Plan, click on “Manage my entry” under the SJSU logo.

    Name your document as follows: Projectname_Date (for e.g. Zombie_May5). We recommend that you upload a single PDF document, but you can upload multiple documents if you need to do so (e.g., ZombieBP_May5, ZombieFinancials_May5, etc.)

    Remember to click on the "Save changes" button after you upload the documents.

  • 2. Business Plan Format and Outline

    For guidelines on the format of the Business Plan and the Competition presentations, see http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/SVBPC/participate/format.html

    For a sample Business Plan format, see http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/SVBPC/participate/outline.html

  • 3. Business Plan Judging criteria

    Business Plans will be evaluated on the following criteria:

    PRESENTATION: Quality and thoroughness of the presentation and business plan

    CUSTOMER NEED/MARKET OPPORTUNITY: Does it address a significant problem or market void? Who is the customer? What is the Market size?

    BUSINESS CONCEPT: What is the proposed business solution to the identified problem/ opportunity? What is special or ingenious (from a technical or business perspective) about the ‘solution’? What is the strength of the value proposition of the proposed product or service?

    BUSINESS MODEL & PLAN: Does this business have the potential to develop into a viable enterprise? Does the company have a feasible, well developed plan to grow revenues and reach breakeven?

    COMPETITIVE POSITION: Does the presentation demonstrate an understanding of industry competition? Does this business have a strategy to achieve competitive differentiation?

    MARKETING/DISTRIBUTION PLAN: Does this business have a strategy to reach its customers & sell to them?

    DISTRIBUTION & OPERATIONS: Does this business have a well-developed strategy for producing/completing its product/ service offering, and operating effectively to serve customers?

    QUALIFICATION OF FOUNDERS AND THE MANAGEMENT TEAM:
    Do the founders have the requisite knowledge/skills to start the business? Are they cognizant of management voids? Are they committed to expanding the team?

    RISKS AND ASSUMPTIONS
    Have the key risks been identified and addressed? Are the milestones identified and realistic?

    FUNDING:
    Are the financial projections consistent with the specifics of the operation? What are the main uses of funds?

    A final Q that could be asked: “How would winning $10,000 change the way you launch your business? What difference would $10,000 make to your starting up the business?”

  • 4. Judges for SVBPC 2010

    We have an extremely distinguished panel of judges to judge the semi-finals and the final presentations this year. They include:

    • Bill Barton (Sr. VP and CFO, Granite Construction, Inc.) (Retired),
    • Larry Boucher (CEO & Founder, Alacritech),
    • Simon Brafman (CEO, Green Java)
    • Ken Burns (CEO, Patelco Credit Union)
    • Jim Connor (Board Director, Sand Hill Angels)
    • Dan Doles (former CEO, WhereNet; Co-Founder, Red Pepper Software)
    • Dave Hadden (Co-founder, Arlo Inc.)
    • John Hall (Managing Director, Horizon Ventures),
    • Tony Pollace (Co-Founder and CEO/CFO, Armored Mobility, Inc)
    • Mike Rose (Managing Partner, Montage Capital)
    • Charlie Smith (Principal, CHS Ventures)
    • Chris Surdi (President & Co-founder, GEP)
    • Ron VandenBerghe (Founder and President, Vandenberghe Properties)
    • Bill Youstra (Venture Partner, Kohlberg Ventures)

    The internal reviewers to select the semi-finalists include the following SJSU faculty:
    • Steve Bennet, Accounting & Finance
    • Subhankar Dhar, Management Information Systems
    • Fabian Eggers, Marketing
    • Bobbi Makani, Marketing
    • Gita Mathur, Organization & Management
    • Iris Quan, Organization & Management
    • Anu Vuorikoski, Accounting & Finance
    • Joel West, Organization & Management
    • Robert Wood, Organization & Management
    • Anu Basu, Organization & Management, and Director, Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship


  • 5. Any Questions?

    Please contact Dr. Anu Basu at anu.basu@sjsu.edu or Rakshit at ashtekar_r@cob.sjsu.edu