LondonAnnual Conference 2012

The second ‘NIBS business plan competition’

The NIBS business plan competition

■ Welcome■ History

►Conference in Antalya in 2009• Analysed the possibilities to integrate

the world wide start-upcafés

►Conference in Bangkok in 2010• Launched the idea of ‘business plan

competition’

The NIBS business plan competition

■ History

► Proposal presented to the Board: June 2010

- stimulate entrepreneurship amongst students- teach them how to write a good Business Plan- teach them how to present their ideas to an audience - teach them how to work in a team and combine each member’s strenghts- develop their communicational skills needed as an entrepreneur- and last but not least, create the opportunity to

compete with international students

Fiat of the board

Try-out on the annual conference at Maastricht

NIBS Business plan competition 2011

■ Try-out in Maastricht■ Only two NIBS members

participated: Rotterdam and Leuven

■ An international jury selected the winner in Maastricht=> goal: motivate more members to participate

=> We sent in december 2011 the guidelines and rules of this competition to all the NIBS members (with an added letter)

This year 2012

■ we received at the end of January the registration from 8 NIBS members

■ each university organised their own national selection (in Belgium Rotary of Leuven)

■ on April 10th we received the names of the national selection but only from 4 NIBS members:►From Lahti Finland►From Leuven Belgium►From Rotterdam Netherlands►From Amsterdam Netherlands

■ ……

This year 2012

■ An international jury read the 4 business plans. Thanks!

■ Selected 2 teams based on criteria developed by Leuven and Rotterdam

■ The 2 selected teams are from the Netherlands►Dutch final!

The NIBS business plan competition 2012■ Today

►A COMPETITION between 2 TEAMS

Hogeschool of Rotterdam, University of Applied Sciences

Hogeschool of Amsterdam, University of Applied Sciences

Selected by this international jury:-Sarah Bunch: Salisbury University-Maurice Mergeay: The Rotary Club of Leuven-Leslie Gadman: London South Bank University

The NIBS business plan competition

Parts of the overall evaluation:

■ Written business plans sent to the jury■ Presentation: 10mins■ Q&As: 20mins

■ Jury deliberation4 PM: coffee break4.30 PM: proclamation of the winner

The NIBS business plan competition: guidelines for jury

Grade (1-5)*      

Presentation  Approach message support and

reinforcement; variety; humor 

Organisation coherence; clarity; appropriately  

Visual aids appropriately; clarity; handling  Delivery pace; enthusiasm; eye contact;

audibility; intonation; confidence; body language

 

Language clarity; accuracy; fluency; appropriately; pronunciation; signalling

 

Question Time/answers  Answers clarity, accurately, fluency  Overall clarity of message; achievement

of objectives; interesting? enjoyable? informative? motivating?

 

The NIBS business plan competition London 2012!

The NIBS business plan competition

■ Amsterdam with NextThing BikepadStephan SchmidtNoury WestersEwout Wisselink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ231q7XtnM

The NIBS business plan competition

■ Rotterdam with Qube►Mark Janson►Rosemarie Mos►Viona Ustasia►Henk van Dillenhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=ap_OVmp0xjk

The NIBS Business Plan competition 2012

■ Good luck!■ Bonne chance!■ Veel geluk!■ Viel Glück!■ Buena Suerte!

■ Next year: We hope to have 10 participated NIBS members for this business plan competition!