Two Business Plan competitions run by The UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge are coming up soon.
Register (at no charge) for these great events via the links below and get the pulse of the innovation scene here in San Diego.
May 31: BioTech/MedTech Finals June 7: Tech/Innovation Finals
Check back tomorrow, May 17th, when finalists will be announced. (Jacobs School of Engineering students always seem to make it into the finals.)
Biological Dynamics, Cognionics, ChemoTactics and Wolf Biosciences are just a few of the companies created by Jacobs School alumni who participated extensively in, and benefited from, events put on by the UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge. (What other companies should be added to this list? Send me suggestions at: dbkane AT ucsd DOT edu)
Side note: watch Raj Krishan from Biological Dynamics give a TEDx talk here.
Side note: Watch the Jacobs School students and alumni with winning pitches from the UC San Diego
Entrepreneur Challenge “Elevator Pitch” competition from earlier this year.
UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge
The Entrepreneur Challenge is a UC San Diego student-run organization that promotes the commercialization of the research and innovation that occurs on the Torrey Pines Mesa, in San Diego.
The mission of the Entrepreneur Challenge is to foster community involvement and technological innovation by bringing multidisciplinary teams of engineers, scientists, and business-minded students together with local area entrepreneurs and professionals in order that they might shape the world of tomorrow by securing the health of San Diego’s economy today.
The Entrepreneur Challenge focuses on start-ups from the inception phase to the early seed-stage. Their goal is to give teams the confidence and resources necessary to launch a successful company that otherwise might not exist.