{"id":138502268,"date":"2013-04-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acccapital.com\/governors-cup-finalists-making-their-cases-winners-announced-april-10\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T13:07:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:07:49","slug":"governors-cup-finalists-making-their-cases-winners-announced-april-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acccapital.com\/hi\/governors-cup-finalists-making-their-cases-winners-announced-april-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor\u2019s Cup Finalists Making Their Cases; Winners Announced April 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The road to Little Rock goes through Fayetteville today and Friday for collegiate business-plan teams aiming to take home the\u00a0Donald W. Reynolds Governor\u2019s Cup.  Semifinalists and finalists are at the Chancellor Hotel \u2014\u00a0<em>as we speak<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 making their cases before a panel of judges. Winners will be announced at the big awards banquet shindig April 10 (next Wednesday) at the Statehouse Convention Center in downtown Little Rock.  Business-plan teams from Arkansas colleges and universities have competed all over the world in prestigious competitions in recent years, and fared well. Teams mentored by Carol Reeves from the University of Arkansas have fared so well that Arkansas has become a prominent player on the business-plan scene. Sort of like the Hogs were in hoops in the early 90s, or on the gridiron circa 2010-11.<!--more-->  The success of UA teams has sort of upped the game for teams from other Arkansas schools, which have experienced their own recent Governor\u2019s Cup success stories (<a href=\"http:\/\/innovation.arkansasbusiness.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/12\/entrepreneurs-put-john-brown-on-business-plan-map\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we\u2019re looking at you, specifically, John Brown<\/a>\u2026).  Indeed, teams from JBU, Harding and Ouachita Baptist, in particular, are making their way to the Gov\u2019s Cup finals. Winners from the Arkansas competition move on to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dwrgovernorscup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tri-State Cup<\/a>\u00a0in Vegas against state winners from Oklahoma and Nevada (the three states represent the primary territory of the old Donrey media empire).  The undergraduate semifinals were scheduled to kick off first thing this morning, with undergrad finalists being selected and then presenting Friday morning along with the graduate finalists. Other categories (presenting today) include innovation and agriculture.  Read the full article\u00a0<a title=\"Innovate Arkansas Governor\u2019s Cup Finalists Making Their Cases; Winners Announced April 10\" href=\"http:\/\/innovation.arkansasbusiness.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/04\/governors-cup-finalists-making-their-cases-winners-announced-april-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> from Innovate Arkansas.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The road to Little Rock goes through Fayetteville today and Friday for collegiate business-plan teams aiming to take home the\u00a0Donald W. Reynolds Governor\u2019s Cup. Semifinalists and finalists are at the Chancellor Hotel \u2014\u00a0as we speak\u00a0\u2014 making their cases before a panel of judges. Winners will be announced at the big awards banquet shindig April 10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138502268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-entrepreneurship-foundation-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Governor\u2019s Cup Finalists Making Their Cases; Winners Announced April 10 | ACC Capital<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/acccapital.com\/hi\/governors-cup-finalists-making-their-cases-winners-announced-april-10\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"hi_IN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Governor\u2019s Cup Finalists Making Their Cases; Winners Announced April 10 | ACC Capital\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The road to Little Rock goes through Fayetteville today and Friday for collegiate business-plan teams aiming to take home the\u00a0Donald W. 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