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If you have further questions please contact Larae Hackney:

Phone: 406-243-4830
Email: larae.hackney@business.umt.edu

Platinum Sponsors ($2,500+):

City Brew Coffee

George C. Dodge Foundation

Huse Law Office, P.C.

Pyron Technologies

Jeff Shay-Poe Professor

Surgical Principles, Inc.

Ken & Carol Thuerbach

University of Montana Office of the President

Gold Sponsors ($1,000+):

Allied Waste Systems

Anderson ZurMuehlen

Bank of Montana

Big Sky Brewing Company

Broadway Inn

Campus Inn

First Security Bank of Missoula

Frontier Angel Fund

Glacier Venture Fund - John Marchi

Governor's Office of Economic Development

Hilton Garden Inn

Missoula Federal Credit Union

Montana Board of Investments

Mountain West Bank

NorthWestern Energy

Payne Financial Group
PrintingForLess.com

Quality Construction

saltStudio

US Bank

vSpring Capital

Wells Fargo Bank

 
History of the Competition


The John Ruffatto Business Plan Competition was founded in 1990 and has become one of the premier entrepreneurial events in the state.  Each May, the event attracts approximately 15 teams from college programs around the state to compete in the day long event.  The top 4 teams present their plans to an audience of more than 250 business leaders, academicians, and students.  The competition’s distinguished judges and the audience submit their votes following the evening presentations and awards are given to all four teams that made the final round.  Students traveling to Missoula for the event are provided with scholarships to cover their transportation and lodging.

More than 500 students from around the state have participated in the event since its inception and approximately 30 of the student business plans have been implemented.  The most recent success stories are Big Sky Brewing Company (now one of the top 20 microbreweries in the country) and Kinetic Sports Interactive, an interactive media company that provides personalized training program supplemental software for companies such as Eastbay, Prospot, and several others.

 
       

 
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