This exciting national business plan competition literally takes student entrepreneurs from the ground floor to the boardroom. Staged at Wells Fargo Bank, teams present their plans to venture capitalists during two, two-minute elevator rides. The top teams advance to full presentations made to an expanded group of venture capitalists. Winners receive a return trip to present their plans to a venture capital partnership group appropriate for their venture funding.
KACE Competition
The Kauffman/Angell Center for Entrepreneurship National Case-Writing Competition is an outgrowth of the business school's successful teaching case competition. Students prepare original teaching cases with teaching notes based on their summer internships. The inaugural competition, funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, was held in January 2001. Participating schools included Harvard, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Chicago, Michigan, Nebraska and Wake Forest. The winning case was from Northwestern. The competition was the winner of the Irwin-McGraw-Hill Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award, presented by the Academy of Management.
NOTE: These files are for educational purposes only. All files are in PDF format only. If you are a faculty person and would like a copy of the teaching notes, contact Donna Fulp.
- 2006 Cases
- Welcome to KACE 2006 (Video)
- Traditional: University of Chicago: Joyce Glaid (Second Helping LLC: A Joint Venture)-- Video / Teaching Case (PDF)
- Traditional: Wake Forest University: Scott Bevis (Blue Ridge Distillers, Inc.)-- Video / Teaching Case (PDF)
- Social: University of Chicago: Gabriel Senior (Fundefir’s Self-Sustainability)-- Video / Teaching Case (PDF)
- Social: Wake Forest University: Brody Eldridge (The Delivering Difficult News Video)-- Video / Teaching Case (PDF)
