The New Venture Business Plan Competition ("BPC") is a competition to encourage students and individuals to pursue entrepreneurial ventures and develop high-growth businesses. The BPC accomplishes this objective by providing a forum in which qualifying participants may present their ideas to win prizes to help start their business ventures. The BPC is presented by Louisiana Business & Technology Center, the Baton Rouge Business Report, Stephenson Entrepreneurship Institute, and LSBDC Technology Center at LSU (collectively "the Host"). In the first phase of the BPC, judges assess business summaries submitted by registered entrants in order to select teams to move into the next phase of the competition. Phase 2 consists of selected teams submitting business plans for evaluation. In Phase 3, finalists will present their business plans to an evaluation team on October 1, 2008.

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