I recently participated as a judge in the UW Business Plan competition: a fun experience that I’d highly recommend to anyone with entrepreneurship in their blood. 

Some of the business plans I reviewed really stood out, others stumbled in a big way. I wrote up a short blog post about my top 5 tips for anyone considering a business plan competition. The post is published on the University of Washington Foster School of Business blog: http://depts.washington.edu/foster/5-tips-succeeding-business-plan-competition/