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  • Silicon Valley Business Plan Competition 2010

    27 May 2010
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  • Table of contents:

    1. Congratulations to the Winners of the Silicon Valley Business Plan Competition 2010!
    2. Thank you to the sponsors and judges

  • 1. Congratulations to the Winners of the Silicon Valley Business Plan Competition 2010!

    We are pleased to announce the winners of the SVBPC 2010:

    * Wanda Ginner First Prize Award: $10,000 - Rota Mobility Inc.- Michael Bayne
    * Larry Boucher Second Prize Award: $5,000 - iJockey - Will Steinberger, Bret Yerkovich
    * Dan Doles Third Prize Award: $2,500 - Hops Beer Bar - Helen Heydeman, Frederic Rouhana, Arash Rahimi, Rita Sader
    * Best Written Business Plan Award (sponsored by Dave Hadden): $500 - Rota Mobility Inc.- Michael Bayne

    All the finalist teams did a terrific job. We look forward to staying in touch with all of you!

  • 2. Thank you to the sponsors and judges

    Our sincere thanks to the sponsors of the awards: Wanda Ginner, Larry Boucher, Dan Doles, and Dave Hadden.

    Many thanks to all the judges for their participation in the Initial Screening, Semi-Finals and Finals. The external judges were:
    • Bill Barton (former Sr. VP and CFO, Granite Construction, Inc.)
    • Larry Boucher (CEO & Founder, Alacritech),
    • Simon Brafman (CEO, Green Java)
    • Ken Burns (CEO, Patelco Credit Union)
    • Jim Connor (Board Director, Sand Hill Angels)
    • Dan Doles (former CEO, WhereNet; Co-Founder, Red Pepper Software)
    • Dave Hadden (Co-founder, Arlo Inc.)
    • Tony Pollace (Co-Founder and CEO/CFO, Armored Mobility, Inc)
    • Mike Rose (Managing Partner, Montage Capital)
    • Charlie Smith (Principal, CHS Ventures)
    • Chris Surdi (President & Co-founder, GEP)
    • Ron VandenBerghe (Founder and President, Vandenberghe Properties)
    • Bill Youstra (Venture Partner, Kohlberg Ventures)

    The internal reviewers to select the semi-finalists included the following SJSU faculty:
    • Steve Bennet, Accounting & Finance
    • Subhankar Dhar, Management Information Systems
    • Fabian Eggers, Marketing
    • Bobbi Makani, Marketing
    • Gita Mathur, Organization & Management
    • Michael Merz, Marketing
    • Iris Quan, Organization & Management
    • Anu Vuorikoski, Accounting & Finance
    • Joel West, Organization & Management
    • Robert Wood, Organization & Management
    • Anu Basu, Organization & Management, and Director, Silicon Valley Center for Entrepreneurship

    Thanks to Sofia Moede for helping with the arrangements, Prabha Chandrasekhar for arranging to record the event, Stephen Guerguy and the E-Society for helping on both judging days, and last, but not least, to Rakshit Ashtekar for his assistance throughout the semester.