2014

Why Do it? Helped start 100s of businesses

— Exchange.com, SupplierMarket.com, @hoc, Brontes Technologies, Finale, New Leaders for New Schools, MyHappyPlanet, YouTea!, Cloudflare, RentTheRunway, BirchBox, RelayRides, Oscomp Systems, Triangulate, Vaxess Technologies, Good Start Genetics, ZEFER, Tauros Engineering

A great launch pad for your idea; test your interest in startups

Feedback from accomplished funders and founders

Principles into Practice ... — A learning experience that will prepare you when you DO have your great idea or when

launching a new initiative within an existing business

Fame and fortune!

Benefits – Register Now! $1,000 Experimentation Fund for EVERYONE to engage in structured

experimentation and validate assumption

Early Stage Feedback from judges and mentors

Live judging and feedback for every participant on market viability of idea, go to market plan, team, business model

Launching pad to future funding and accelerator opportunities, fast track opportunities, Pitch Day, HBS badge

$50,000 Grand Prize, $25,000 Runner Up + In-Kind Prizes

Eligibility/Rules

Open to all HBS students and anyone else, as long as team has at least one HBS student who is a member of the founding team

2 tracks (Business & Social Enterprise); dates/awards are the same, process and judging criteria are different

RC teams may NOT enter their FIELD III project; Cannot win twice for the same idea (RC/EC year); Can apply to other Harvard competitions

Collaboration with Harvard Science Labs, MIT, i-Lab, and outside team members encouraged

Focus on seed stage ideas (<$1.5M capital raised/<$2M in revs)

All teams/MBA present on Super Saturday, Finalists only for Burden finale

Calendar

TODAY: Panel of Past New Competition Winners Paris Wallace, MBA '08, Founder, Good Start Genetics Tony Tjan, MBA '98, Founder, ZEFER and Cue Ball Adrian Ross, MBA ‘14, Founder, Tauros Engineering

Team Building Mixer #1 30 Second Pitch: Problem, Solution, Help? Mix and Mingle by industry sector

Coming Soon: Early Stage Feedback (11/1, 12/11) Team Building Mixer #2, Mass Challenge (11/19) Entrepreneurship Conference: Pitching Contest (11/24) Early Registration Deadline (2/5) Super Saturday (4/5) Pitch Day (mid April) Finals (4/29)

More Details: http://www.hbs.edu/entrepreneurship/new-venture-competition

The Whole World is Waiting …

What will you do??

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