2010 Business Plan Competition Winners
Meet the BPC winners! These 4 teams collectively won $30,000 in cash prizes.
37 judges from all over the world have chosen the 2010 winners.
Congratulations to all the teams!
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Total Participants Entered
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Total Team Represented
$30k
Total Cash Awards
HealthEworks
Christina Johns, David Mathison, Moh Saidinjead
HealthEworks' mission is to optimize and customize emergency health information. The core product will be a catalog of video information prescriptions (VIPs) customized for each patient according to the patient's ED discharge diagnosis. This educational effort will transition doctor-driven emergency health education from the ED to the home. Each VIP will be less than five minutes in length and will be hosted by a board-certified emergency physician. On-screen bullets and visual demonstrations will be used to accentuate points.
$20,000
1st Place Winner ($20,000)
ScentShots
James Albis, Raymond Marcovici
The mission of ScentShots is to provide unique "scent solutions" for two important vertical markets: weight loss & energy. The energy market encompasses both mental alertness and enhanced athletic performance. After launching the first two product lines (ThinShot & EnergyShot), the company will expand into other markets such as relaxation, sleep, and study aids.
$6,000
2nd Place Winner ($6000)
Karmen
Ari Menase
Karmen Certified Angus is dedicated to breeding high quality Angus cattle with superior taste for the meat loving consumers in Turkey. Karmen ensures that each cow earning the 'Certified Angus Beef (CAB)'brand will offer each consumer the same quality eating experience. Research from USDA has proven that demand for CAB has more than doubled worldwide in 2009 in spite of the economic crisis and that CAB production has had an average solo increase per year from 2005 to 2009.
$3,000
3rd Place Winner ($3,000)
AEC Inc.
Richard Bradford, Kate Comiskey
AEC, Inc., a woman-owned small business, will deliver highly specialized, scenario-based training in personal security- situational awareness, observation skills, route analysis, and surveillance detection - surveillance, and defensive driving to military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies at the federal, state and local levels.
$1,000
4th Place Winner ($1,000)