The Global Security Challenge is a business plan competition focused on homeland security technologies. The sponsors of this cool, niche competition include London School of Business, Accenture, The US Dept. of Homeland Security, and Smiths Detection. Here are the details — one of which is the entry date, June 30, 2007.
No doubt there is big money in security; campus entrepreneur Sean Gorman of George Mason’s School of Public policy was able to launch his mapping firm, FortiusOne, by initially focusing on the security market. BTW, his dissertation eventually led to $5.4 million in VC funding.
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100K American Security Challenge B Plan Comp « Campus Entrepreneurship // March 13, 2008 at 9:42 pm |
[...] 13, 2008 · No Comments Awhile back we covered a global security business plan contest. In that same ’security’ niche of business plan contests is the American Security [...]