{"id":9666,"date":"2011-12-02T17:58:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=9666"},"modified":"2011-12-02T17:58:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T17:58:49","slug":"entrepreneurs-take-note-competition-to-award-25k-top-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2011\/12\/entrepreneurs-take-note-competition-to-award-25k-top-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurs, Take Note: Competition to Award $25k Top Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/competition21.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-9802 img-responsive lazyload\" title=\"competition2\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/competition21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"268\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 206px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 206\/268;\" \/><\/a>The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI) at UConn has announced the third annual university-wide business plan competition, open to all UConn students.\u00a0 The competition will award a total of $50,000 in prize money to the top three teams or individuals for exceptional business plans.<\/p>\n<p>Interdisciplinary teams are encouraged, and all plans submitted will be reviewed by a team of professional and experienced entrepreneurs.\u00a0 Following submission of their intent to compete, participants may take advantage of CCEI-sponsored workshops intended to help teams polish their plans so they are ready for submission. For full details, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www4.business.uconn.edu\/ccei\/events\/competitions\/\">competition website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Key deadlines are as follows:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">December 19, 2011- Letter of intent due<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">February 15, 2012 &#8211; Business plan submission<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">April 2012 \u2013 Awardees announced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI) at UConn has announced the third annual university-wide business plan competition, open to all UConn students.  The competition will award a total of $50,000 in prize money to the top three teams or individuals for exceptional business plans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[63],"class_list":["post-9666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engr"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-09 06:28:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=9666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}