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Note: Written business plans
are due to BPC by Wednesday, April 23, 2008
at 5:00pm. All plans must follow guidelines
provided in this document. No exceptions
will be made to this rule. We have
established this deadline in order to give
our Preliminary Judging Team ample time to
rigorously review all plans submitted before
sending out invitations to the competition.
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General Guidelines – Plans
must be limited to 20 pages of text
(typed, single or double-spaced, minimum of
12 pitch font, and 1” margins on all sides).
The 20 page limit does not include: title
page, Table of Contents, and Executive
Summary. Detailed spreadsheets and
appropriate appendices should follow the
text portion of the plan but will be limited
to 20 pages. Plans with fewer than 20 pages
of appendices may not use the
remaining pages to increase the size of
their business plan beyond 20 pages.
In total, the maximum
number of pages is 40 (excluding Title
Paper, Table of Contents, and Executive
Summary).
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Financial Data –
Financial Data should include
a cash flow statement, income statement,
balance sheet, and any other relevant
information for the judges. Include an
explanation of the offering to investors
indicating how much money is required, how
it will be used, and the proposed structure
of the deal, (i.e., stock, debentures, etc.)
and possible exit strategies.
Please note:
The team is not required to reveal the exact
desired terms of the deal (i.e., proposed
company valuation and percentage of company
being offered). However, teams should
expect to be asked about these terms and
should be prepared to answer questions in some
fashion (if this information is not already
provided in the written plan). It is up to
the team to assess the BEST way to address
this question; however, past experience
indicates that some judges will want to know a
team’s estimated company valuation.
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Appendices
should be included only when
they support the findings, statements and
observations in the plan. Because of the
number of teams in the competition, judges
may not be able to read all the material in
the appendices. Therefore, the text portion
of the plan (20 pages) must contain all
pertinent information in a clear and concise
manner. All appendices must fall within the
20 page limit; any pages over this limit
will not be posted or otherwise provided to
the judges.
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Written Plan Submission –
the final plan from each team is due to the
University of Montana Business Plan
Competition on or before 5:00pm on
Wednesday, April 23, 2008. Teams not
meeting this deadline will not be considered
for this year’s competition.
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All submissions must include
a one-page Executive Summary that will be
distributed to the audience.
This may or may not be
different from the Executive Summary from
the business plan itself (i.e., some may
need to be shortened in length). This
one-page Executive Summary should be
submitted in hard copy and on a CD or
3.5 inch floppy disk.
Scoring Criteria –
Please read carefully the Scoring Criteria
Guidelines and Criteria section. |