2004's Competition drew 25 teams from around the world with an equally impressive panel of judges (e.g. Shawn Fanning), and was featured in SF Chronicle in three separate SFChronicle articles.
[1][2][3] In 2005, it was renamed as the USF-Pacific Specialty Insurance International Business Plan Competition in honor of its largest donor.
It was also the first time that the Competition was held in conjunction with the San Francisco-Silicon Valley Global Entrepreneurship Research Conference, and was once again featured on SFChronicle [4].
20 were selected for the event held at the Miyako Hotel from March 22 to 25 with the top team automatically qualifying for Moot Corp at UT Austin.
In the Fall of 2000, the faculty of the USF Business School, led by Mark Cannice, organized the USF New Venture Center (later renamed the Entrepreneurship Program) after which time the Business Plan Competition has been co-organized by both the MBA faculty and the students of the Entrepreneurship Club.