<p>A good, detailed article:
Chapman</a> University Competition Gives Start-ups a Head Start | AccountingWEB</p>
<p>Excerpt:
"In April, Chapman University in Orange, California, became a mecca for "out-of-the-box" thinking when aspiring student entrepreneurs from top university programs across the western United States put their business plans to the test in the second annual California Dreamin' Investor and Fast Pitch Business Plan Competition.</p>
<p>Student teams from twenty-five schools vied for a total of $230,000 in prize money and had the chance to develop connections to venture capital firms and to glean advice on their start-ups from real-world entrepreneurs and investors at the 2013 competition.</p>
<p>"California Dreamin' has become the premier university pitch competition including all of the top business schools in the West," said Richard Sudek, PhD, director of the Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Ethics at Chapman University..."</p>