He pitched the idea of using game mechanics to motivate behavior to a Princeton Business Plan competition and in the summer of 2008, he left to start SCVNGR based on that plan.
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We started humbly in 2006 as a more traditional venture plan competition focused on social innovation.
Our venture development programs include the Wharton Business Plan Competition and Wharton Venture Initiation Program (our educational incubator).
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The concept of CloudFlare started in January 2009 as an entrant to the HBS Business Plan competition as Project Webwall.
Every January Babson sends its students to more than 25 schools in these regions to teach entrepreneurship and conduct a business plan competition.
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An 11-year-old Dutch boy, Jurre Hermans, entered a serious economics competition with a plan for bringing the Greek economy back from the brink.
Now we are in the process of transforming what was once a simple venture plan competition into a new worldwide program that activates student innovators.
Hanno just returned from a trip to Ghana and Rwanda, where he and Babson students and faculty taught week-long entrepreneurship classes to high schoolers and led a business plan competition.
For instance, in spite of its commitment to competition, the plan would create, at least for a transitional period, new exclusive Internet registries: each of the new top-level domains would be controlled by just one company.
The UK will merge its Office of Fair Trading (OFT) with its Competition Commission, while Spain and the Netherlands plan to concentrate various competition, sector and consumer authorities into overarching national super-regulators.
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In January, the European Commission blocked, on competition grounds, a plan by three other Dutch banks, ABN Amro, ING and Rabobank, to help SNS with a capital investment.
The plan has been followed, more or less, as construction has stumbled forward over the past decade, but, after winning the competition for the master plan, Libeskind never managed to get a commission to design even a single building himself.
The two risks to the stock outlined in the previous article were Steve Jobs succession plan and iPad competition.
Their plan would facilitate competition to improve choice and reduce costs, and provide seniors with the option of private insurance.
Everyone can judge progress toward the plan and against the competition, in some cases even down to individual retailers.
Far from increasing competition, the government's plan would strengthen the incumbent generators.
Perhaps figuring that he has little chance to beat Real and Microsoft's lead on the desktop, Apple's boss Steve Jobs has a plan to leapfrog the competition.
OnLive will be able to stream movies as well next year (a plan the company announced earlier this week, putting it in competition with the likes of Netflix), but Perlman says the plan is to go further than that.
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Most Mittelstand companies sprang up in the absence of competition with capital provided by the Marshall Plan.
The company has been working on a turnaround plan as it faces increased competition from online retailers and discount stores.
While the plan does not assume their competition will do nothing, the news that Samsung are looking towards the same market, but from a far stronger position in the high-end smartphone market, will make for some uncomfortable moments in the Nokia boardroom.
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But this plan expands personal choice and increases competition to keep costs down.
That decision appeared to fly in the face of a judge's decision last month that women of any age should be allowed to buy both Plan B and its cheaper generic competition as easily as they can buy aspirin.
If you really want to stand out, write a plan with teeth in it and put your competition to shame.
In a letter to the European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, Lord Mandelson said Magna's plan was more expensive than that of a rival bidder.
He tries to personally hear as many good business proposals as possible, grilling potential employees or partners about the viability of the business plan, size of the potential market and existing competition.
Conservatives have a lot to like about it because it promotes free-market competition and consumer choice (more than 1, 000 different plan options exist) and, unlike every other major social program ever created, actually costs less than number crunchers first forecast it would.
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Following the steps in the article, I put together a plan and started doing research about the market and possible competition.
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Supervalu exited some markets in the U.S. in the last fiscal year including Connecticut and Ohio, and it sold its higher priced health foods chain Bristol Farms, as part of a plan to create savings that it can put into price competition for groceries, which may seem especially prudent now as shoppers are aware of rising prices as a result of higher commodity costs.
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The agreement extends to firms that plan to deliver letters when the postal service is opened to competition on January 1st.
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