For the last several years, I’ve had the distinct pleasure of being a judge at the UW Business Plan Competition. I’ll admit, this year I was a little scared when 6 of the 7 plans I read in the screening stage failed to pass the Pets.com sniff test.
But last Wednesday, I was able to tour the 36 semi-finalists and talk with the teams in action. It’s always an interesting exercise. You see a few companies with ideas that you see every year, and you see some companies who are developing a cure for cancer. But then there are those teams with ideas that are interesting enough that they just may work.
I gave “money” to a number of the teams, and while I won’t tell you who I tried to help make the next round, here are some ideas and companies I will try to keep an eye on:
- GreenStone International: Revolutionary Bio-Paving and Bio-Stone Technology
- TrueLight Flip: Capabilities to turn your phone into a projector.
- Snovision: Cameras in snowboard parks
- Broadspeak
- Clear Potential
- EmergentDetection
- Illionix
- Native Roots
- Switchstrip
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One response to “Entrepreneurship Reigns at UW Business Plan Competition”
Hi Andy,
Paul Moyes from Broadspeak. Thanks for posting us on this blog. We are charging hard, currently going for Angel investing and hope to have a downloadable beta version within a 3-4 month period. If you are interested (and own an android) I will send you a passcode that you could use to download our first product and let us know what you think.
Cheers,
Paul