2005(第四届)岭南MBA创业计划大赛即将举行

l        比赛简介

1998年香港中文大学举办了首届“亚洲创业计划比赛”（Asian Moot Corp® Competition）。此后，亚洲区一些著名的商学院每年三月都派代表队参加在香港举办的亚洲创业计划比赛。2002年起此比赛改在美国夏威夷大学举行。

2002年3月，中山大学岭南学院MBA代表队在美国夏威夷举办的“亚洲创业计划比赛”（Asia Moot Corp 2002）中力克来自亚太地区的其他12所著名的商学院，以绝对优势赢得总冠军，并囊括了小组赛中的最佳陈述奖和最佳商业计划书奖。

作为2002年亚太区冠军，岭南MBA应邀参加了2002年5月份在美国德克萨斯州首府奥斯汀举行的“国际创业计划竞赛”（MOOT CORP 2002）全球总决赛。来自全球13个国家和地区的30所著名商学院的代表队参加了此次比赛。首次参赛的岭南MBA学生在小组赛中胜出击败另外4个小组，以小组亚军的成绩跻身第19届“国际创业计划竞赛”（MOOT CORP 2002）全球总决赛前十强（小组冠军为东道主德克萨斯大学），成为本次大赛的“黑马”，让诸多老牌大学队对这个首次参加此大赛的中国中山大学岭南学院MBA刮目相看。

MOOT CORP Competition (国际创业计划竞赛)于1983年由德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校创办，并得到了全球各大商学院的认可和支持。参加此比赛必须受到邀请或者在区域性（如亚洲区比赛）中取胜获取“参赛资格”。 

l        比赛规则

Lingnan MBA Business Plan Competition 2005

Official Rules, Guidelines and Submission Requirements

The Lingnan MBA Business Plan Competition is modeled after the Asia Moot Corp Business Plan Competition.  The winners at Lingnan Business Plan Competition will proceed to compete in the Asia Moot Corp Competition in Hawaii. Therefore the official rules, guidelines and submission requirements are modeled after the Asia Moot Corp competition.  

Eligibility 

*  All ventures must be seeking outside equity capital.

*  At least one graduate student must be a member of the team. All graduate students, not just MBA candidates, are eligible, including executive MBAs. Non-students may be members of the management team and participate in planning the venture; however, only students may participate in the competition. In other words, only students may present the plan and answer questions from the judges. The maximum size of a team is five (5) students.

*  The competition is for new, independent ventures in the seed, start-up or early stage. Generally excluded are the following: buy-outs, expansions of existing companies, real estate syndications, tax shelters, franchises, licensing agreements for distribution in a different geographical area, and spin-outs from existing corporations. The licensing from universities or research labs of technologies that have not been commercialized previously is not excluded and is encouraged.

*  The competition is for student created, managed and owned ventures. In other words, students are to have played a major role in conceiving the venture, to have key management roles and to own significant equity. An equity position of less than 20% will be suspect and require the students to show evidence that they were a major cause in the venture creation. One objective of this rule is to exclude ventures formed and managed by non-students who have given token equity to MBAs for writing their business plan.

*  Ventures with revenues in prior academic years are excluded. The history of a team member working on an idea or new technology in previous academic years or even prior to entering graduate school does not exclude a venture, if there were no revenues prior to the current academic year.

*  The business plan must represent the original work of members of the team and be prepared under faculty supervision; ideally, the business plan will be prepared for credit in a regularly scheduled course or as an independent study.

Business Plan
 
*  Plans must be limited to 25 (typed and double-spaced) pages of text, including the executive summary and summary financial data. Detailed spreadsheets and appropriate appendices should follow the text portion of the plan. In total, the plan should be no longer than 40 pages.

*  Financial data should include a cash flow statement, income statement, and balance sheet. Include an explanation of the offering to investors indicating how much money is required and how it will be used. Also, delineate the possible exit strategies.

*  Appendices should be included only when they support the findings, statements and observations in the plan. Because of the number of teams in the competition, judges may not be able to read all the material in the appendices. Therefore, the text portion of the plan (25 pages) must contain all pertinent information in a clear and concise manner. 

*  Judges will use the three-part Asia Moot Corp Judge's Evaluation Form. Part I (valued at 40%) is designed to help assess the written business plan focusing on key elements and the effectiveness of the summary financial data. Part II (20%) assesses the poise and professionalism of the presentation. Part III (40%) evaluates the perceived viability of the venture. This quantitative assessment is meant to complement, not replace, the qualitative evaluation of the judges in their determination of winners. 

*  For ease in handling, we request that all copies of business plans be professionally bound (i.e., velo, spiral, tape, etc.). Three-ring binders will not be accepted. 

*  Ten (10) copies of the final plan are due at the Lingnan MBA Center on or before 16:00 January 8, 2005. Teams not meeting this deadline may be disqualified. Five (5) copies will be distributed to the divisional judges before the competition. Five (5) copies will be distributed to the Finals judges should your team move forward into the Finals of the competition.

*  Plans should be sent to Ms. Zeng Shuimei, Ip Po Ting Hall, Lingnan MBA Center, Lingnan (University) College, Sun Yat-sen University.  She may be reached at 020-8411 5881, fax: 020-8411 1918 and email: zengsm@lingnan.net 

Presentation
 

*  The presentation is in two parts. In the divisional competition, each team will have 15 minutes to present its plan. THIS TIME LIMIT WILL BE STRICTLY ENFORCED. The presentation will be followed by a 20-minute question-and-answer session with the judges. 

*  Each member of the team must participate in the formal presentation of the plan. 

*  A team, once it has finished its presentation, may observe both the presentation and Q&A session of the teams that follow it. A team that has not given its presentation may observe only the presentation segments of teams before it must exit the auditorium at the start of the Q&A sessions.

*  Each team will be given 15 minutes to present its business plan followed by a 20-minute question and answer session between the presenting team and the judges. Each presenting team will have approximately 10 minutes for set-up.

*  Teams may not observe other presentations or question and answer sessions in their division until after they have presented their own plan. 

*  All public sessions of the competition, including but not limited to oral presentations and question/answer sessions, are open to the public at large. Any and all of these pu

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