• Students operating businesses at any stage.
• Students with high-potential business ideas.

1. Get helpful feedback on your business.
2. Build your network by meeting like-minded students, faculty, alumni, and judges.
3. Receive a veteran entrepreneur as a mentor from SUU’s ELC.
4. Cash Prizes include the following:
   
   • First place: $1,500 
   • Second place: $1,000, given to 3 winners
   • Third place: $750, given to 2 winners, One Business will be awarded a $750 Kahlert Bootstrapper Award

A business model is a brief document that outlines the problem and solution your business is addressing. The purpose of the document is to convince the reader that the business is viable and has the potential to grow.

Your business model should be a 3 to 6 pages (with standard 1-inch margins and a 12-point font size). All pages, except the cover page, should be numbered.

Your business model should cover:

• Company overview: Include the most important points about your business idea — your history, product or service, mission statement and legal structure if applicable.
• Product or service: Describe product or service for sale, stage of development, market differentiation and intellectual property if applicable.
• Market: Describe the market where you aim to sell your product or service. Include target market, competitors in the market and an analysis of your competitive advantage.
• Sales strategy: Explain how you will go about selling your product or service while increasing profits. Include marketing strategy, distribution channels, key partners and relationships.
• Revenue model: Describe how your business generates revenue. Include the cost to produce, cost to sell, customer acquisition strategy and market price for the product or service.
• Team: Describe who is currently on your team, their role, education and experience. Detail current and future personal needs.

Please submit one GOOGLE slide, which will be used in your presentation. Once submitted, you will not be able to make any changes.  This must be submitted with your application. You have the option of using video, but it must be embedded into your slide (not linked).  Please note if you show a video, the video is part of your 90 second pitch.

• Application deadline: Thursday, February 15th, 11:59pm.
• Finalist notification: Friday, February 16th.
• Finalist competition: Tuesday, February 20th, 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM. Check in will begin at 4:15 with a reception to follow prior to the start of the event. Food will be provided.

• The team must be organized and directed by a student from SUU.
• The founding student must be registered for a minimum of six (6) credit hours.
• The student team members must be involved in all aspects of the competition.
• There are no restrictions regarding other team members; however, we suggest building a balanced team with a strong combination of finance, marketing, engineering and technology skills.
• SUU’s Opportunity Quest competition uses the same application materials as the University of Utah’s Utah Entrepreneur Challenge. We encourage you to apply to both.

• Each participant/team will present a total of three times. Each time will be in front of a different panel of judges.
• Each presentation will be 90 Second Pitch followed by approximately 3 minute Q&A, total approximately 4.5 minutes.  
• After all presentations in participants' first room are completed, participants will rotate to the next room / panel of judges.
• Judges will stay in their assigned rooms with their cohort of judges.