{"id":209005,"date":"2019-12-06T14:28:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T19:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/?page_id=209005"},"modified":"2021-01-14T10:15:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T15:15:23","slug":"2020-pitch-contest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/featured-programs\/2020-pitch-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Startup 麻豆传媒在线 Contest Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Startup 麻豆传媒在线, our annual pitch contest, held virtually on April 22, is to identify the most innovative ideas, with a panel of judges awarding prizes to the most compelling concepts. Any 麻豆传媒在线 student and alum can enter the competition. Alumni teams must have at least one 麻豆传媒在线 student. Find out more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/start-up-montclair\/\">2021 Startup 麻豆传媒在线 pitch contest here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>2020 Competition Highlights:<\/h2>\n<p><iframe title=\"Video: 2020 Startup 麻豆传媒在线 Pitch Competition Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship &amp;amp; Innovation 4\/22\/20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IV-ysNXK1w0?feature=oembed\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen style=\"width: 500px; height: 281px; border: 0px solid #000;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>JUDGES:<\/h3>\n<div>Jill Johnson, CEO &#8211; Institute for Entrepreneurial Leadership<\/div>\n<div>Steven Rosenblatt, Co-Founder &amp; General Partner\u00a0&#8211; Oceans Ventures<\/div>\n<div>Ricardo Tavera, Serial Entrepreneur<\/div>\n<h3>STUDENT WINNING TEAMS:<\/h3>\n<h3>1st Place- Dr. Floss:\u00a0Hassan Kashif and\u00a0Zaki Tahir<\/h3>\n<h3>Female Founders Prize-\u00a0Garbage Wine: James Reilly,\u00a0Melissa Spigelman, and\u00a0Rashelle Jackson<\/h3>\n<h3>2nd Place-\u00a0SoLo&#8217;s Food: Diamonique Lundy and\u00a0Kheyyon Parker<\/h3>\n<h3><strong>3rd Place-\u00a0Cloud Card: Tiamera Rasmussen-Ellen and\u00a0Megan Canzonieri<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>PRIZES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teams will compete for the following prizes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1st place &#8211; $25,000 cash* + industry support (details below)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Female Founders** prize &#8211; $25,000 cash* + industry support (details below)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2nd place &#8211; $10,000 cash*\u00a0 + industry support (details below)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>3rd place &#8211; $5,000 cash + industry support (details below)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* For cash prizes, 20 percent of the award goes directly to the team members and the remaining 80 percent must be invested in the startup venture under the coaching of the Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship &amp; Innovation. See team agreement for more info.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>** Women and women-identified must make up more than 50% of the founding partners.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Industry support is valued at more than $31,000 and includes:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cloud credits and business tech support from<\/span><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/startups\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AWS Start-Ups<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Free provisional patent applications, provided by<\/span><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gearhartlaw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gearhart LLC<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Website support\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">from <\/span><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wix<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0including but not limited to:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1) Hands-on Wix workshops on how to plan a website, use the Wix platform, explore design features, and learn about advanced digital marketing like SEO and email marketing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>(2) A one-year f<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ree coupon code for students to upgrade their site to any of <\/span><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wix.com\/upgrade\/website\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wix&#8217;s Website or Business Premium Plans<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This will allow students to connect to their own domain (i.e. <\/span><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mybusiness.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">www.mybusiness.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), utilize Google Analytics, design a professional logo, unlimited bandwidth, and more.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(3) One-to-one sessions with Wix designers to provide professional guidance and design feedback on how to take their website to the next level.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dedicated desk(s) &amp; access to co-working space within the Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship &amp; Innovation from June 2020 until December 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Option for prize money to be paid as work stipend, depending on team composition and at the discretion of faculty mentor upon achievement of mutually agreed upon milestones.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Community Prize:<\/h2>\n<p>On May 1, we held a 麻豆传媒在线 Community pitch contest for four 麻豆传媒在线 based businesses to compete in. Top prize was $2,500 and industry support from our center.<\/p>\n<h3>COMMUNITY PRIZE WINNING TEAM:<\/h3>\n<p>1st Place-\u00a0Roncero Reiki<\/p>\n<p>Honorable Mention-\u00a0Vett News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startup 麻豆传媒在线, our annual pitch contest, held virtually on April 22, is to identify the most innovative ideas, with a panel of judges awarding prizes to the most compelling concepts. Any 麻豆传媒在线 student and alum can enter the competition. Alumni teams must have at least one 麻豆传媒在线 student. 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