The deadline for submitting Intent to Competes for the 2007 Competition is now past. 

Welcome to the 2007 Rice Business Plan Competition. We appreciate your interest in participating in this year’s event, hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University.

Please note: Your business plan must be for a seed, start-up or early stage venture and must address the entire business concept (including implementation). Proposals for the buy-out or expansion of an existing company, tax-shelter opportunities, real estate syndications, subsidiaries and other consulting projects or analyses are not eligible. The judges will be looking for new ventures, not just a distribution play in the American market of a product already being sold in another market. The business should not have generated revenues prior to Sept. 1, 2006.

Each team MUST have the endorsement of a faculty advisor at their school and must provide contact information for their faculty advisor, regardless of whether or not the advisor will travel with the team to Rice University. All faculty advisors will be contacted for verification.