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I’ve been involved with two great business plan competitions: The Duke Startup Challenge and the MIT 100K. These are just two out of hundreds of competitions out there. On top of all the existing groups, many more new competitions are created every week. The problem is, many of these organizations face similar needs yet are constantly forced to reinvent the wheel. For instance, I’ve been helping the DSC a bit with its registration system. The goal is to make the registration process as easy as possible for contestants AND the volunteer organizers. I bet a few competitions have better systems, and I bet many have much worse systems(I’m talking using paper forms and manual data entry to register teams). I personally really want to help the DSC, but think the best solution to the problem is for someone or some group to form a low key organization to support Business Plan Competitions. I’m thinking just a few people who will take it upon themselves to increase communication and collaboration among the hundreds of BPlan competitions out there for the benefit of all. This new group could foster the sharing of techniques, marketing materials, website code, etc. Since these are generally non-profits, I think this would be welcome by all.

And it would be a lot more efficient than current methods, which consist of either reinventing the wheel or only small communication by different organizations.

Let me know what you think and especiallly let me know if there is a group out there already–I would love to connect people with them.