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Do you have an idea or product? Looking for the basics, exposure, and mentors? At the UMass Innovation Challenge we award over $65K annually during competitive events where graduate & undergraduate students pitch innovative business plans... Learn more »

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UMass IC Fall MinutePitch Competition

October 29, 2013 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm

Flavin Auditorium, Isenberg School of Management

Come watch the teams compete; $2,500 in prizes!

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Announcements

Fetch Rewards won the top prize of $30,000.  VideoConversation won a total of $15,000 ($10,000 from judges plus $5,000 David Wolf Prize) while Crowd Solar received $10,000. 

SCH-MGMT 797B -- Learn more about this graduate-level course.  Applications are required.  Priority deadline is April 30, submissions are accepted until course is full.

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Highlights from the final business plan competition 2011/12

Thank You Sponsors

Founding Platinum Sponsor

Wolf Greenfield: Specialists in Intellectual Property Law

Platinum Sponsor

Saint Gobain

Silver Sponsors

Cantor Colburn, LLP • CISCO • Raytheon • Saul Ewing, LLP • Steven Luby • William Firestone

Community Sponsors

Provenance Venture Partners, LLC • Karen Lauter Utgoff Consulting •Stephen Dunne •  Michael Tunstall • Anonymous Faculty Donor

Additional program support generously provided by Ronnie and Eugene ('50 Economics) Isenberg