- Ole Miss School of Business
- Innovate.ms
- Mississippi Angel Network
- Miss. Small Business Development Center
- Transactional Law Clinic
- UM Foundation
- North Mississippi Enterprise Initiative (NMEI)
- Oxford-Lafayette County Chamber of Commerce
- Insight Park
- Division of Technology Management
- Haley Barbour Center for Mfg. Excellence
- Mississippi Development Authority
- Mississippi Small Business Development Center
Fall Business Model Competition
Fall Business Model Competition
In the Fall semester, the CIE hosts a business model competition following the guidelines of the International Business Model Competition. This is a lower burden way to craft a business idea. It focuses on talking to customers and rapidly iterating through variations of your solution to get to something customers want quickly.
There are two rounds:
Round 1
Answer some simple questions about your business. Registration is open! You can submit your entry by clicking Get Involved
Round 2
After we coach you up on completing the business model canvas and customer validation techniques, you will submit a final business canvas. Judges from within the university will review the models and invite participants for the final round. The finalists will be invited to present your canvas to a panel of judges from the industry and investment communities. The judges will choose the winners. We’d like you to use the template we provide.
Prizes
- Winners earn the latest iPad Pro OR cash equivalent deposited into your bursar account.
- Overall winning team is automatically advanced as a semi-finalist to the Gillespie Business Plan Competition. You still have to apply for the Gillespie Competition, but you will be an automatic semi-finalist.
- Winners will earn automatic advancement to the International Business Model Competition Oxford Regional Qualifier. If you win the regional, you get a shot to compete for over $100,000 in prize money at the international finals in the spring.