Competitions
With £5000 total prize money, E-Club runs two pitching competitions sponsored by Santander and a business plan competition sponsored by Grant Management. At the start of the year, we also have a friendly pitching session to break the ice.
Pitching events
The Santander pitching competitions
The second of two Santander Bank sponsored pitching competitions will be held on the 1st March. Up to four student (or recent student) entrepreneurs will pitch their business ideas to a panel of judges and the club membership. The winner will receive a cheque for £1000 provided by Santander Bank. This is a great opportunity for the participants to hone their presentation skills. Participants will have 5 minutes to pitch their idea and then take questions from a panel of judges in a Dragon's Den-style format. The winner will be announced during the drinks reception afterwards.
All participants are invited to attend a dinner about a week later with the judges so that a more detailed debrief and discussion about the various plans can take place.
To apply for a pitching slot please send a summary of your business plan (max 300 words) to entrepreneurship@ed.ac.uk by Wednesday 20th February.
Grant Management Business Plan Competition
This business plan competition is limited to either individual postgraduate students from the Business School or teams of University of Edinburgh postgraduate students of which at least one must be from the Business School.
- Business Plan Competition
- Next deadline: 8 November 2011
- Prize: The winning entrant will receive a prize of £3000, generously donated by Grant Management.
[ -/+ ] Format of Business Plan
- Flexible - does not need to conform to any given business plan template.
- Simple - to catch the imagination of potential backers and to keep the prescriptive 'box ticking' element to the minimum.
- The submitted document may simply be a proposed business model, with many of the traditional business plan elements stripped out. However, the management team must be presented, and the required level of finance must be presented and justified.
