KALAMAZOO ? The Great Lakes Entrepreneur?s Quest business plan writing contest will host an ?Entrepreneur?s Roundtable on Business Commercialization? March 21 from 6 ? 8pm at the M-TEC in Kalamazoo.
Southwest Michigan First will co-sponsor the event to kick off a new collaboration with GLEQ.
Mike Klein, partner at CompanyCrafters, will moderate the roundtable, which will focus on the business commercialization process from prototype, through beta testing to market adoption.
Registrants are requested to e-mail [email protected] with their specific questions or business commercialization challenges by March 20th to have them included in the roundtable discussion.
To register for training classes, learn more about the competition?s eligibility requirements or register for the current Business Plan Competition Cycle – please visit www.gleq.org.
The GLEQ sponsors a statewide business plan competition with a deadline for registration on April 15th and business plan submission on May 15th. The Quest is structured into two distinct maturity ?paths?: companies with more developed businesses compete in the Emerging Company (EC) path while teams with new or less developed business ideas compete in the New Business Ideas (NBI) path.
The EC teams must complete and submit an 8 to 12 page business plan, while the NBI teams must develop and submit a five-page executive summary describing their business or business idea. The GLEQ provides the assistance of coaches and educational programs to help all entrepreneurs with their business plans. Cash and in-kind awards are provided to the EC and NBI winners.
The GLEQ is currently sponsored by the Ann and Carmen Adams Fund of the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan, Wayne State University, Apjohn Group, Southwest Michigan First, Ann Arbor SPARK and Lambert, Edwards & Associates. Additional cash sponsors include MPI Research and The Right Place.
To register online, click on GLEQ.Org
