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Important Dates
Finalist Announcement:
Apr 2, 2012
Deadline for Final Plans:
Apr 27, 2012, 5:00 p.m.
Oral Presentations:
May 4, 2012
$50k Winner Announcement:
May 9, 2012
Contact Information
| Contact Information for College of Business | |
|---|---|
| Website | College of Business |
| Phone | (775) 784-4912 |
| Fax | (775) 784-1773 |
| Location |
Ansari Business Building
409 |
| Address | 1664 N. Virginia Street Reno, NV 89557-0024 |
| Contact | Contact Us |
Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition
A huge round of applause to the winners of the 2012 Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition, Mining Environmental Technology and Services (METS). At a luncheon on Wednesday, May 9, 2012, METS received a check for $50,000 to help launch a business developing, producing, and marketing optical instruments to detect potentially harmful airborne particulates in mining work places. Team members include David Karr, Ben Sumlin, Heather Zunino and Bryan Rainwater. Congratulations are also in order for the competition finalists whose solid business proposals made this competition such a difficult one to judge. Thanks must be extended to Rick and Susan Sontag for their generous gift that kick-started this competition and to everyone who helped administer and manage the competition.
- See photos from the luncheon
- Read a Nevada Today article about METS
- Read a Reno Gazette-Journal article about METS
- See how the College of Business can help you invest in your future
Rick Sontag
Alumnus Rick Sontag created the Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition with his $1 million gift to the University in 2011.
Ready for a real life business competition?
In the Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition the stakes are real-life real; giving your hopes and dreams a real opportunity to be really real. We are going to take one select group of students through the new venture creation process that promises to provide an environment for business excellence. So if you are for-real about making your ideas more than just un-real, break out your entrepreneurial keyboard-punching fingers and get to typing your really-legit future reality (one great business idea) because this competition is on.
"Do not go where the path may lead,
go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition was established to develop the entrepreneurial capacities of University of Nevada, Reno Students and facilitate the creation of new businesses in Nevada by awarding $50,000 every spring to the student's (or group of students') business plan that clearly demonstrates performance potential and embodies the innovative spirit for which Nevada is known.
To compete in the 2012 Sontag Entrepreneurship Competition start by:
- Making sure that you are a University of Nevada, Reno Student (seriously, University students only)
- Reading the Competition Rules
- Completing the intent to enter form no later than February 10th.
- Like us on Facebook.
Now start building your Business Plan.
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
