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<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline" id="docs-internal-guid-427eac6e-6c4e-8057-602e-77312dc49837">Other business plan competitions deal with early-seed entrepreneurial businesses - ACMI is designed for mid to late companies. ACMI supports both their company competition, as well as a student competition, although the latter has been combined with the Michigan Collegiate Innovation Prize (MCIP). The MCIP is limited to students from any Michigan university</span>.
<span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The competition is adjudicated directly by venture capatlists. According to the website:</span><blockquote>''<span style="font-size:larger">In 2012, sixty venture capitalists capatlists from fifty one 50 firms judged the 2012 competition</span>''. <br/></blockquotespan>
<br/><span style="font-size:15px; font-family:Arial; color:#000000; background-color:transparent; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; font-variant:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline">The MCIP is a six month program that guides students from brainstorming an idea to making it a reality. This is faciliated in a manner like UIF, through webx conferences, but is exclusive to Michiganites.</span>