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
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