Be a VC Competition

February 16, 2012
Your Venture Group will soon be holding its yearly strategy session. The Partners in your firm have turned to you to create an initial investment thesis on ONE of the two following sectors: Cloud Computing or Mobile . Given that your fund has a 5-year investment horizon, $200 million of capital, and reserves up to $20 million of capital per prospective investment, you will make a 15 minute presentation to lay out your investment thesis on the chosen sector and recommend an attractive investment opportunity to the partnership based on your thesis.


Register here by February 10th to be eligible to receive up to $1000 in prizes.

Official Rules:

  • Teams of 3 to 4 current undergraduate students
  • 10 Slides, 1 page outline
  • 15 Minute Presentation + 5 minutes for Q&A
  • Registration due February 10th, 2011
  • Competition on February 16th, 2011


This competition is an internal competition used in preparation for the regional competition in April with both Stanford and UC Berkeley.
Example Slides from Previous SCU Winners/Contestants:
NorthScale (1st place in Internal Competition, 2nd place in Regional Competition) Team: Dean Hoang, Aris Harutyunyan, Preet Anand, more info here

Associated Content (First place in Internal Competition, 3rd Place in Regional Competition) Team: Chaz Flexman, more info here

More Info on the Regional Competition:Click here

Register here

 

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