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Michigan Business Challenge - 2008 MBC Winners

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The 2008 Michigan Business Challenge attracted 32 teams with students from academic interests all over the University. The Round One was held on November 30 from which, 16 teams were chosen to advance to Round Two on January 11. Eight teams were chosen as Semi-finalists. They were instructed to develop a full business plan and prepare a complete investor pitch to deliver to judges on February 15.

Here are the results of the 2008 Michigan Business Challenge.

Pryor-Hale Award for
Best Business
$15,000

  Army Property - Angelo Adams, Ambra Heard, Parren James, Ben Kozma, and Sherman Powell (MBAs ’08)
Develops a secure, online, multi-user inventory management system for individuals in the Armed Forces to organize, delegate, and account the military equipment that they are responsible for.

Runner-up
$5,000

 

Potentia - Ruba Borno (Ph.D. ’08), Rishiraj Das (MBA ’08), and Tzeno Galchev (Ph.D. ’09)
Manufactures a microfabricated battery-replacement component to generate power by scavenging environmental energy.

Williamson Award for
Outstanding Business and
Engineering Team

$5,000

  Potentia - Ruba Borno (Ph.D. ’08), Rishiraj Das (MBA ’08), and Tzeno Galchev (Ph.D. ’09)
Manufactures a microfabricated battery-replacement component to generate power by scavenging environmental energy.

Erb Award for Sustainability
$5,000

  Potentia - Ruba Borno (Ph.D. ’08), Rishiraj Das (MBA ’08), and Tzeno Galchev (Ph.D. ’09)
Manufactures a microfabricated battery-replacement component to generate power by scavenging environmental energy.

Outstanding Presentation
North Room
$2,500

  Army Property - Angelo Adams, Ambra Heard, Parren James, Ben Kozma, and Sherman Powell (MBAs ’08)
Develops a secure, online, multi-user inventory management system for individuals in the Armed Forces to organize, delegate, and account the military equipment that they are responsible for.

Outstanding Presentation
South Room
$2,500

  Hitchsters - Catherine Lee (MBA ’08), Jason Lin (MBA ’09), and Sriram Viji (MBA ’08)
Operates a service that connects travelers going to and from airports so that they can share a cab and split the fare.

Outstanding Written Plan
$2,500
  Hitchsters - Catherine Lee (MBA ’08), Jason Lin (MBA ’09), and Sriram Viji (MBA ’08)
Operates a service that connects travelers going to and from airports so that they can share a cab and split the fare.

Finalist
$1000
  ePack Corp – Razi Haque (MBA '08) Jay Stewart Mitchell (Ph.D ’08), Sang Woo Lee, and Michael Urcan (MBA ’08)
Provides high volume, high yield, batch mode micro-device packaging for semiconductor manufacturers.

Finalist
$1000
  Org Org - Jennifer Anderson, Abhishek Gopalka, Lauren Rosenthal, Heath Silverman, and Sriram Viji (MBAs ’08)
Offers an internet tool for organizations to manage and communicate with their members and for members to define their interests in the organization while networking with and discovering other organizations.

Semi-finalist
$500
  Audiallo - Aaron Nelson (MBA/MA ’09)
Designs biology-inspired, audio processing technology which targets the hearing-aid and high-end audio markets.

Semi-finalist
$500
  BCCJ Biodiesel - James Bucher (Ph.D. ’09), Meghan Cuddihy, and Edward Jan (Ph.D.s ’09)
Sells biodiesel fuel reformulated from waste grease collected from local restaurants or other food service establishments.

Semi-finalist
$500
  Hitchsters - Catherine Lee (MBA ’08), Jason Lin (MBA ’09), and Sriram Viji (MBA ’08)
Operates a service that connects travelers going to and from airports so that they can share a cab and split the fare.

Semi-finalist
$500
  VidFlips - Jared Ailstock (B.A. ’08), Richard Lam, and Mark Thompson (BBAs ’08)
Combines aspects of Facebook, JumpCut, YouTube and iMovie in a new online product for users to record events in a personalized manner.

Congratulations to everyone who participated!

 


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