2011 FIU Track
Lessons learned: Be nimble, stay focused, don’t give up
Challenge Champion Raw Apps found ways to execute its strategy in the mobile market.
Highlights
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Challenge rules
Entries due March 24
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The People's Pick
Watch videos of the finalists
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Social networks
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The judges
Meet this year's judges
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Challenge Q&A
Challenge coordinator Nancy Dahlberg answers questions
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Winning example
Download past plans
Enter the Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge
Find the contest rules and all you need to get started on your entry, but first let’s look back on the progress of last year’s winners.
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Editor’s Note
Business Plan Challenge launches new features, opportunities for entrepreneurs
At an event last week, an audience member gave an elevator pitch for his company called Sweat EquiTees, which sells t-shirts with slogans like “Run LLC” and “Kiss me, I’m an Entrepreneur.”
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Advice from the judges on business plans, entrepreneurship
Here is advice on writing a business plan from the 2012 Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge judges:
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2012 Business Plan Challenge Rules
Have you hatched a great idea for a business? If your business is less than 2 years old or exists only on paper, you can enter our 14th Annual Miami Herald Business Plan Challenge, co-sponsored by Florida International University’s Eugenio Pino and Family Global Entrepreneurship Center. This year, we offer three tracks: a Community Track open to anyone in South Florida; an FIU Track open to students and alumni of the university; and a High School Track for grades 9-12.
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2011 High School Track
For Challenge’s teen winners, the world is their oyster
Team behind First Place Kit Korp prepares for life’s next chapter — there’s no kit for...
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2011 Community Track
Passion, persistence, partnerships mark winners’ year
First Place winner DonorCommunity is building a name in the nonprofit industry.
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BUSINESS PLAN CHALLENGE
Colleges produce educated entrepreneurs
Students in new entrepreneurship certificate programs offered by Miami Dade College and Broward College gra...
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Made in Hialeah
Hialeah firm makes a billion napkins a year
Flamingo Products of South Florida manufactures almost a billion napkins a year in a Hialeah factory. Tonny...
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Made in Hialeah
Manufacturing in decline? Hialeah missed the memo
Manufacturing is still an important — and growing — industry in Hialeah.
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Sunshine Industries
Armour Group builds bullet-proof business
A Fort Lauderdale company sells armored vehicles to military clients and companies with employees overseas.
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FIU College of Law offers free legal help for small businesses
The Community Development Clinic at the Florida International University’s College of Law Clinical ...
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Small Business Makeover
Quilt company finds a new business pattern
Comfort in The Word explores ways to improve sales during a Miami Herald Small Business Makeover.
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