X-Message-Number: 16811 From: "Trygve Bauge" <> Subject: Venture Cup, a ventureplan writing competition with high monetary awards. Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2001 12:23:41 +0200 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C102F1.D4EA8E00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" For the last few years several European countries like Switzerland, Germany, Sweden and Norway have had competitions called The Venture Cup. Here individuals and business teams compete as to who can write the best venture plan for setting up a new venture. We have had such competitons here in Norway for the last 2 years, organized and sponsored by our universities and a few big companies. There will be a 2 stage competition next spring as well, most likely with deadlines at the end of February and the end of April. The winner gets about USD 21,000 and the ten runners up get something less. All participants get a chance to meet with the main Norwegian investment companies. There are also free weekly lectures in how to start your own venture. I am planning to write a 30 page venture plan for how to set up a bio bank, actually more a cryobank, first in a rented facility and later in its own partially terrain integrated fire, storm, earthquake and nuclear war proof terrain integrated cryonic storage facility. I am mentioning this, in case anyone else would like to be part of the business team and participate in the competition. We will have to do some market research, create a budget with 5 year projections etc. I am in particular looking for a cryobiologist, or a forensic medical doctor/patologist, or any student of cryo biology. But am open to include anyone interested in being part of such a team. Of course anyone of any nationality is free to participate with their own ventures as well. Most Norwegian participants turn in venture plans written in English, so the language would be no barrier for foreigners that want to participate. This year there were about 60 participating teams at the final stage of the competiton. The web address is www.venturecup.com click on "Norge", then on "gaa videre" then click on the British flag to get the English version of the Website or try: http://www.norge.venturecup.org/submain.asp?section=english&page=english Sincerely, Trygve Bauge Ps. Cryonisists around the world might consider participating in similar entrepreneurship competitions around the world, so to improve their own skills in setting up and running cryonic related ventures. ------=_NextPart_000_0016_01C102F1.D4EA8E00 Content-Type: text/html; [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=16811