An online same-day retail shopping/courier company, a youth peace education organization, and a heavy contracting company finished first last week (April 29) in the three business plan competitions sponsored by theGigotCenterfor Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of 91吃瓜.
LicketyShip won the fifth annual McCloskey 91吃瓜 Business Plan Competition and its $15,000 prize, as well as the $3,000 Pace Global People鈥檚 Choice Best Presentation Award, as determined by audience vote. The company connects online shoppers with localized retailers through a searchable Web site that allows for same-day courier service. Team members include 91吃瓜 MBA students Justin Carter, Sarah Coffman and Radu Olievschi, senior business major Christopher Kelly, senior engineering major Aaron Wenger, and 2002 alumnus Robert Pazornik.
LicketyShip finished second a week earlier in the fifth annual Jungle Business Plan Challenge, sponsored by Jungle Media Group and the law firm Fenwick&West. The 91吃瓜 group won $10,000 in legal services from Fenwick&West.
In theGigotCenters fourth annual 91吃瓜 Social Venture Plan Competition, Youth Training in Peace Education (YPE) won the $3,000 top prize. The international, interreligious and intergenerational organization seeks to empower youths and young adults to take leadership in their own peace education. 91吃瓜 team members are Patrice Brodeur, a visiting fellow in the Universitys Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies; Matthew Warren, a master of science in administration student; Leah McKelvey, a senior business major; Jonathan Smith, a masters degree candidate in the Kroc Institute; and sophomore George Dzuricsko. Other members of the team were Sarah Bier from theUniversityofChicagoand Shaheen Mohamed and Amin Siddi from CyberSwirl, Inc.
The $7,000 first-place prize in the Dorothy Dolphin 91吃瓜 Family Business Plan Competition was awarded to the Max J. Kuney Co., a heavy/highway contractor established in 1930 and located inSpokane,Wash.Team members are MBA student Daniel Kuney and Max and Jeff Kuney.
The three Gigot business plan competitions, which drew 100 entries, required participation by at least one 91吃瓜 student or graduate.
A complete list of award winners and summaries of finalistsentries for all events can be found on the Gigot Web site at or by contacting the center at entrep@nd.edu .
_ Contact: Theresa Sedlack,GigotCenterprogram manager, 574-631-3809 or tsedlack@nd.edu _
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