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Win $2500 in the CES New Business Competition!

1st Place: $2,500  -  2nd Place: $1,000  -  3rd Place: $500

Work on your own to create a business plan or team up with other BSC students to develop a business plan.
You can even team up with a local business owner to work on his/her plan.
Meet other people looking to create a team on our Facebook Page...

And we offer FREE workshops, advice and counseling throughout the entire process!
Both events will be held in the Martha Denison Rondileau Room (MDR), Maxwell Library, Room 104

      
  Friday, March 5th - Understanding and Preparing Financial Statements
(9 a.m. - 12 noon)
         
Presented by Melinda Ailes, Regional Director, Southeastern MA Small Business Development Center (SBDC)
         at UMASS Dartmouth, in conjunction with South Eastern Economic Development Corp. (SEED).

         Friday, April 2nd - Business Plan Discussion Opportunity (9 a.m. - 11 a.m.)
         Melinda Ailes, SBDC at UMASS Dartmouth will answer questions and advise contest participants in finalizing their plans.

Deadline to Register is Monday, March 15th!
Your Business Plan Summary is due at this time, so don't delay!

Click here to download the competition guidelines.
Click here to download the registration form, which should be emailed to CES@bridgew.edu.

For a list of all competition dates and deadlines:
click here
. For more information call 508-531-2026 or email CES@bridgew.edu.

FACULTY: Click here to download the Faculty Stipend Application, which should be emailed to CES@bridgew.edu.
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Event Listings

Entrepreneur Week Events...........Click here to download an event flyer

Keynote Speaker Tim Rowe                               
Founder & CEO of the Cambridge Innovation Center
Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010 @ 6 p.m.
Maxwell Library Lecture Hall, 10 Shaw Road, Bridgewater
Cambridge Innovation Center is the largest facility in the US dedicated to housing early stage technology businesses. Tim serves on the boards of several private companies, including Lumidigm, Inc., a biometric sensor technology company. He has particular interest in consumer-oriented mass-market companies.

Tim says, "Being an entrepreneur is the best job one can have. You can set your own course, make something new, create livelihoods for others, benefit your community, and make yourself rich. If you can do all this with passion and integrity, you will make the world a brighter place." Check out his full bio.

Ben Lester, Massachusetts SBA 2008 Young Entrepreneur of Year &
Co-Owner of Wheatberry Bakery & Cafe
Thursday, Feb. 25 @ 2 p.m. - Rondileau Campus Center, Council Chambers, Room 201, 19 Park Ave., Bridgewater
Merging Entrepreneurship & Sustainability
in Amherst, MA, Wheatberry Bakery & Cafe makes breads, pastries, sandwiches, soups and drinks all from scratch with ingredients that are rigorously selected for quality, ethics of production and value. In 2009 Ben and his wife Ella organized Pioneer Valley Heritage Grain, a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) that explores the frontiers of local staple food production. CSA members get a mixture of locally grown wheat, oats, barley, rye, spelt, beans and corn. Find out more at: www.localgrain.org/fieldsandfire

These events are free and pre-registration is requested. 

Please go to our
event registration page.

For more information, please email Shannon Donovan or Tami Knotts at ces@bridgew.edu or call 508-531-2026.

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Event Photos:
 

Click here to see photos from past events, which are posted in Photo Albums on a Facebook Page.
 

 

 Types of Events:

  • Workshops, Seminars and Case Studies are held at BSC on a regular basis to provide practical knowledge and skills needed to run a small business.



  • Off-Site Events, Workshops and Seminars hosted by local entrepreneurs and business groups related to entrepreneurship studies are also promoted by CES on a regular basis.



  • Speaker Series/Conference: Each semester entrepreneurs are invited to speak on campus and an annual conference to stimulate entrepreneurial activity within the region.



  • Business Plan Contests: CES research found that 73% of the Entrepreneur Centers surveyed have business plan competitions (Donovan & Ross, 2006). The contests incorporate seminars on topics that include: how to identify opportunities; how to develop those ideas; how to form and work in teams; and how to write business plans. Finalists will present their plans at a final event. Judges will include faculty, local entrepreneurs, bankers, venture capitalists and alumni. Winners will receive a monetary prize and additional advising on how to get their proposals up and running. Interdisciplinary business plans, as well as plans that include sustainability and/or social entrepreneurship, are encouraged.

 

Last Modified: February 18, 2010