Welcome to the UML $10K Business Plan Competition Web Site!

The UML 10K Business Plan Competition offers students and alumni of the University of Massachusetts Lowell (UML) an opportunity to develop business plans and launch new ventures. The UML $10K Business Plan Competition is designed to encourage students and researchers in the UML community to act on their talent, ideas and energy to produce tomorrow's leading firms. Students and alumni form teams, develop their business ideas and compete for cash and in kind prizes. The UML Business Plan Competition provides teams who enter with valuable resources in the following areas crucial to the success of entrepreneurship: Networks of world-class entrepreneurs, investors and potential partners UML 10K News Mentorship by seasoned professionals Education in specific business planning skills as a well as general entrepreneurial insights Teambuilding opportunities to create a winning team of founders Prize funding to help start the ventures of WINNING teams in the competition The goal of the $10K Business Plan Competition is to promote entrepreneurship and the development of start-up companies by members of the UML community and to build bridges between UML and the Merrimack entrepreneurial community. To encourage commercialization of promising ideas emerging from UML's strong technology tradition.

The competition is hosted by the UML College of Management.