Elevator Pitch Competition

Undergraduate Winners:

• First Place: Trevor Shepard for Green Light Scheduling
• Second Place: Tyler Casperson and Tim Smith for Mouth Brush
• Third Place: Mariel Donoso, Kent Ownings, Lupe Gonzales, and Dustin Atkins for Instint

Graduate Winners:

• First Place: David Rush for WAW Green Ammonia
• Second Place: Kristin Bierle for Alzar School
• Third Place: Siddarth Dhanasekaran for Palmistry

Business Plan Competition

Undergraduate Winners:

• First Place: Shawn Phillips, Brittany Reed, Steven Schrader, and Alisher Siddikov for MyRoadTrip.com
• Second Place: Rachael Garner, Tyler Casperson, Ryan Underdahl, Timothy Smith, and Paul Greenfield for The Ledge
• Third Place: Jennifer Orr, Matt Jost, and Chase Lowther for BBL Built-in Bike Light

Graduate Winners:

• First Place: Michelle Sabick, Lisa Laajala, Mike Mercil, and Sara Gomez for Innovative Cardiology
• Second Place: Tim Perry, Jane Reed, Elizabeth Pearson, and Igor Zagorskiy for Accumulus
• Third Place: Andrew Smyth, Dean Hahn, Ellie Reese, and Thomas Shoeck for Scratch X

The Competitions and prizes were made possible through the generous sponsorship of Key Bank and United Heritage Insurance.

For more information on Global Entrepreneurship Week, visit the Global Entrepreneurship Week webpage.

Do you have an idea for a new product or service? An idea for a new business concept?

Do you want a chance to pitch your idea to entrepreneurs, investors and people who can help you make it happen?

Do you want to win money for your idea?

If so, the Boise State Elevator Pitch is for you!

You have 2 minutes to present your idea for a new product, service or business concept. What is the problem? How do you solve it? What do you need to make it happen?

Pitch your idea to a group of entrepreneurs, investors, and others who can help.

Award categories include: “Best Overall Elevator Pitch,” “Most Viable Idea Pitch,” ” Best Green/Sustainable Idea Pitch” and “Best Technology Idea Pitch.” Enter your idea today!

Over $1,500 in awards! Each category will award 1st Prize ($250), 2nd Prize ($100) and 3rd Prize ($50).

This competition is open to ALL Boise State University Students.

Location: Student Union Building, Boise State University

Teams have 15 minutes for presentation of business plan, up to 20 minutes for Q&A.

Extended Deadline: Written business plans due by Friday November 13, 2009.

1st, 2nd and 3rd place awards for undergraduate and graduate teams

This competition is open to all Boise State University Students.

Location: Student Union Building, Boise State University

Beginning in the fall of 2008, Idaho Universities have been eligible to apply for participation in this program which assigns technologies developed (and protected) by INL scientists and engineers. The general purpose is for Idaho students to first, understand the technologies assigned; second, to develop market feasibility information; and third, to develop and recommend partners for further development and possible licensing.

Boise State’s MBA team, consisting of Michael Brand, Stephanie, and Anne Wimer, was recognized at TechLaunch 6.0 as the leader in the program for its work this last year. The team was coached and mentored by COBE Management Professor, Sandy Gough. “I was particularly pleased with the students that volunteered to take part, and the quality of their completed effort given the time restrictions,” said Professor Gough.

For more information on this project, view Idaho Ideas to Market Program (I2M) description.

David’s team came in 3rd in the preliminary round of the 2009 Global Moot Corp Business Plan Competition losing out to a team that was a finalist in the competition. The Global Champion of the competition was Novophage Therapeutics, a team from Boston University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that provides a novel approach to combat antibiotics-resistant infections by combining engineering bacteriophages with antibiotics. The Novophage team was made of an MD/PhD., a PhD and an MBA and took home $135,000 in prizes.

The other teams in the Benchmark Capital Challenge round included: Fluoptics has developed a patented system for intra-operative cancer imaging that simultaneously reduces the risk of remission and increases quality of life post-operation (E.M. Lyon, France), SOVAmed provides a means for assessing vascular diseases in radiological image data by means of computer-aided procedures as a distant service provider (Wissenschaftliche Hochschule fur Untemehmenffuhrung WHU, Germany) and Cee-bot allows people to interactively design robots via the internet and interactively telecontrol the actions of the robots with real-time visual feedback and other hepatic feedbacks (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China).

Thirty eight (38) teams from around the world competed in the 2009 Global Moot Corp Business Plan Competition. These included:

USA

• Boise State University
• Boston University
• Brigham Young University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Colorado School of Mines
• Fayetteville State University
• Kennesaw State University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Northwestern University
• San Diego State University
• University of Texas at Austin
• University of Texas at Dallas
• University of Arkansas
• University of California at Berkeley
• University of Chicago
• University of Louisville
• University of Michigan
• University of Oregon
• University of San Francisco
• University of Utah

Australia

• University of Adelaide (Australia)

Canada

• Queen’s University
• University of Manitoba
• University of Waterloo

China

• Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Columbia

• Pontifica Universidad Javeriana
• Universidad de los Andes

France

• E.M. Lyon

Germany

• Wissenschaftliche Hochschule fur Untemehmenffuhrung (WHU)

Great Britain

• London Business School
• University of Oxford

Mexico

• Centro de Investigacion en Materiales Avanzados

Norway

• Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Thailand

• Thammasat University

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