Our annual C2V Challenge provides is a way for all members of the UIC community – students, faculty, staff and alumni - to collaborate on C2V Teams that develop and pitch their startup ideas and plans for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. The C2V Challenge offers networking mixers to help participants find and/or build a team, access to experienced mentors, templates that introduce fundamental concepts and workshops that help contestants mature their startup ideas into a winning startup plan and pitch.
Participants in the C2V Challenge learn how to:
- Identify a real problem and develop an attractive business solution
- Crisply describe the product or service their startup will offer
- Identify and quantify a valuable competitive market position
- Create a financial and operating plan for their startup
- Forecast 3-5 year growth of their business
- Write an Executive Summary
- Create an effective pitch deck
- Pitch a winning proposal
- Develop and deliver an “Elevator Pitch”
Learn more at http://business.uic.edu/home-uic-business/faculty-departments-research/institute-for-entrepreneurial-studies/concept2venture.
