Sustainable Business Plan Collaboration

Our program may look like a traditional business plan competition, and yes, there are prizes for top finalists, but most of our support goes towards *all* of the companies that are accepted into our program. We offer a collaboration of entrepreneurs, mentors, and investors, all working to support each other.

This page contains a simplified overview of how our program works, including information that applicants and mentors will need. Because the MCN is dedicated to building the field as a whole, we are happy to “open source” our program — a detailed overview is available here.

• Entrepreneurs provide exciting new ideas and receive feedback and a chance to build deep mentoring relationships.
• Mentors provide “mentor capital” in the form of feedback and mentoring, and receive the knowledge of what their peers are thinking from different perspectives, as well as a chance to work with entrepreneurs who truly appreciate them.
• Investors provide the financial companies, and they get to learn which companies are a good fit for them both quickly and deeply through the perspectives of the mentor team supporting the entrepreneurs.
• The MCN team provides the coordination.