Belmont Entrepreneurial Showcase: April 2008 Archives

Here are the two winners from Belmont of the Entrepreneurial Challenge -- Sally Munns and Kevin Jennings -- with Will Robinson from ideablob.com
Here is Belmont's 2008 Delta Epsilon Chi Team:

Sixteen of our students traveled to Atlanta to participate in the International meeting of Delta Epsilon Chi, which is the collegiate division of DECA. Over 1500 college students participate in various business competitions. 58 teams with over 100 students participated in the Entrepreneurial Challenge -- one of the featured events of this conference. It is a three day event in which students (in teams of 1-3) come up with a business idea for a specific industry or trend (this year it had to be a "green" business). They research the idea and make a pitch for a business proposal to a series of business executives who serve as judges. The finalists all had to present to a panel of five executives on Tuesday morning. Belmont had 5 of the final 10 teams! 1st place -- Belmont -- Kevin Jennings (Entrepreneurship and Music Business major -- from Nashville) and Sally Munns (Entrepreneurship major from Brentwood) Winning Team members share $5,000 Don DeBolt Scholarship and up to $3,000 in travel awards to attend the International Franchise Association Annual Meeting to present their winning proposal. They also got $10,000 in seed money from ideablob.com. 2nd place -- Belmont -- Noah Curran (International Business/Entrepreneurship concentration) and Julie Zaloba (Entrepreneurship major) -- $3,000 prize In addition to being on the first place team in the Entrepreneurial Challenge, Kevin Jennings also took 1st place in the Business Plan Competition for his business soundAFX, which he currently runs in our hatchery program. The advisers for the Belmont team in this competition included Becky Gann (program coordinator for our Center for Entrepreneurship), Robert Lambert (professor of Marketing), Jose Gonzalez (Instructor of Entrepreneurship), and me. I will post a few pictures from the event as soon as I get them from our team members. Go Belmont!!

Congratulations to Belmont students Kevin Jennings, Andy Tabar and Emily Swinson who all competed as finalists at the annual business plan competition at the University of Evansville.

Kevin Jennings took third place, winning $2,500, for his business soundAFX. His business specializes in sonic branding for businesses. He has already worked for clients such as MTV and Dale Earnhardt, Inc.

Andy Tabar took second place, winning $5,000, for his business Bizooki. His business offers a web-based platform to help manage virtual teams.

The competition drew finalists from several universities, including Purdue University, Bradley University, and Indiana University.

Here is a link to the story from the Evansville Corier Press on the competition.