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Last year's grand prize winners took home $20,000 and rang the closing bell on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

Yesterday, they had an idea. Today, they have a business.

Last year, over 250 professionals helped aspiring entrepreneurs get their feet off the ground with technical and networking support.

These judges and mentors turned ideas into reality.

Learn about how you can become a mentor or judge.

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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2008 Wharton Business Plan Competition!!!!

Grand Prize
Solixia
Team Leader: Irene Susantio
Team Member: Brian Smith
Industry: Life Sciences/Biotech
Solixia is an early stage radiopharmaceutial company developing products that allow doctors to target radiation specifically to solid tumors. Our portfolio of product candidates include SLX-1016, a breast cancer imaging agent, and SLX-804, a treatment for ovarian cancer.





2nd Prize, Gloeckner & People's Choice Awards
Innova Materials
Team Leader: Michael Young
Team Members: Priyanka Agarwal, Alex Mittal, Calvin Peng, Sasha Seletsky, Arjun Sriniva
Industries: Manufacturing, Other
Innova Materials is a surface modification technology company that provides a simple and easily-adoptable process to functionalize plastic and rubber surfaces. This post-manufacturing spray process, called InnlayTM embeds active particles into nearly any plastic or rubber, creating durable and functional product surfaces. Applications include anti-microbial surfaces, biosensors, and RFID tags.




3rd Prize
Proteza
Team Leader: Chrysta Irolla
Industry: Life Sciences/Biotech
Proteza develops the SmartSock, a prosthetic accessory that is worn on the residual limb of a transtibial (below-knee) amputee. This prosthetic sock contains technology that alleviates discomfort and prevents the skin breakdown commonly referred to as a pressure sores. SmartSock is made of a sweat-wicking material and has a pressure relieving system.





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Phase III Feedback is Now Available


Workshops
View the videos from our Past Winners Panel (held Jan 23) and the BPC Idea Generation Workshop (held Dec 4 and featuring Wharton Professor Gary Dushnitsky)!
Click here to view the videos

Please continue to check the site for further updates


The Wharton BPC Blog

BPC in the Wall Street Journal

Feb 29, 2008


The Independent Street blog at the Wall Street Journal gives some love to the BPC and five of its entrants.

Preparing Winning Business Plans deck

Feb 21, 2008


Download the presentation from Eric Siegel’s How to Write a Business Plan workshop last Monday. Video to be posted soon.

WBPC Semifinalists Announced!

Feb 14, 2008


Congrats to the 25 semifinalists!

2007-2008 WBPC Semifinalists:

Changin Your Life Forever LLC
FlyBy
Gelomatrix
Illumination Diagnostics
Innova Materials
Crave Mobile
iTherapetuics
Mahila
Mtandao
Organ Transplant Technologies
PerfectExpression
Proteza
SCM Inc.
Sextant IP
Snowball Exchange
Solixia
Sustenance Health Food
syatsui@wharton.upenn.edu
Tollbit
TracNatal
Ultrasonic
Visigy Systems Inc.
Waterways
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How to Write a Business Plan Workshop and DIY Week

Feb 14, 2008


The Wharton Business Plan Competition will host a Business PlanWriting Workshop next Monday, February 18th from 4:30pm - 6pm in JMHH 240. Join WEP’s Eric Seigel author of The Ernst & Young Business Plan Guide for a sesion on how to structure and write your plan. The workshop is open to everyone; you do not need to have entered or be continuing in the BPC to attend.

Next week DIY Week kicks off with a series of panels on topics relevant to entrepreneurs. Learn form your fellow students!

“Finding Early Funding”

Monday, Feb. 18 | 12 – 1:20pm | JMHH F45

“Prototyping Your Product”
Tuesday, Feb. 19 | 4:30 – 6pm | JMHH F92

“Acquiring Your First Customer”
Wednesday, Feb. 20 | 12 – 1:20pm | JMHH F45

“Bootstrapping Basics”
Wednesday, Feb. 20 | 4:30 – 6m | JMHH F92


“Launching Your Website Quickly”
Thursday, Feb. 21 | 12 – 1:20pm | JMHH F50

Phase I feedback

Nov 20, 2007


For those of you who submitted a business concept for Phase I, judge feedback will be returned to you by December 1st! Remember Phase I is non-competitive. There is still time to submit plans for the Phase II deadline January 25th.

Don’t miss the upcoming Past Winner’s Panel! Come hear how they did it and what they’re doing now. Wednesday, November 28th, 4:30pm JMHH 345.




Events
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