BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : JULY 24, 2000 ISSUE
Intro The field Mixing Working Plans Showtime Winners PHOTO ESSAY Contests for college kids have sure come a long way from goldfish-swallowing and trivia bowls. In may, Garage.com, the Silicon Valley-based incubator for startups, By Joan O'C. Hamilton. Photographs by William Mercer McLeod, Gerry Gropp, Michael L. Abramson. upped the ante among the growing list of engineering and business schools around the country that now host big-bucks business-plan contests for young entrepreneurs. This spring, more than 600 plans representing 2,000 students streamed into Garage.com. Garage plucked out five finalist teams to come to Silicon Valley and "pitch" before a blue-ribbon panel of high-tech heavyweights. The carrot: a walloping $150,000 to the Grand Prize team and an additional $150,000 split among the others, intensive presentation coaching to all, and priceless introductions to some of the Valler's big names. Let the contest begin . . . Next _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ BACK TO TOP

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