{"id":590,"date":"2015-03-02T17:11:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me.business.holycross.edu\/?p=590"},"modified":"2015-03-02T17:11:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T17:11:58","slug":"annual-shark-tank-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2015\/03\/02\/annual-shark-tank-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Shark Tank Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual SHARK TANK COMPETITION was held on Thursday, March 26, 2015, where students pitched product\/service ideas to a panel of alumni judges for the chance to win! Multiple prize monies awarded from clever idea to serious start-up, funds to be used towards the venture.<\/p>\n<p>Over $10,000 in Prize Monies! *Multiple prizes will be awarded.<br \/>\nCompetition Date: Thursday, March 26, 2015<br \/>\n5:30pm in McGrath Lecture Hall (Smith Labs 155)<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMPETITION:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Serious Start-up: 5 minute pitch + 5 minute Q&amp;A. <span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Two prizes will be awarded for teams most ready for launching their business.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>$7,500\/team given to Studily, presented by John Tabone &#8217;15 and Sena Donoghue &#8217;15.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">$4,000\/team given to SRKA, presented by Andrew Valencia &#8217;15 and Michael Casey &#8217;15.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Two teams won the Clever Idea competition where students had to distill their idea into a two-minute pitch.\u00a0 No Q&amp;A, just $250 per team for an original and promising idea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you to our 2015 JUDGES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Addonizio P16, CEO, J. Addonizio &amp; Company, LLC<\/li>\n<li>Bob Allard \u201991, Co-Founder, extensionEngine (eE)<\/li>\n<li>John Calcio, VP Channel Development, QStream<\/li>\n<li>Tom Flynn \u201987, Managing Partner, SV Life Sceinces<\/li>\n<li>Ben Kaplan \u201915, Co-Founder &amp; CEO, WIGO &amp; 2013 Holy Cross Shark Tank Winner<\/li>\n<li>Mary Moran \u201977, Financial Services Consultant and Contractor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t want to compete but want to check out all the good ideas? This event is always free and open to the campus community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annual SHARK TANK COMPETITION was held on Thursday, March 26, 2015, where students pitched product\/service ideas to a panel of alumni judges for the chance to win! Multiple prize monies awarded from clever idea to serious start-up, funds to be used towards the venture. Over $10,000 in Prize Monies! *Multiple prizes will be awarded. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/2015\/03\/02\/annual-shark-tank-competition\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Annual Shark Tank Competition&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,106,158,159,227,341,359,368,426,449],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-annual","tag-competition","tag-entrepreneurial-studies","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-holy-cross","tag-open-to-campus","tag-pitch","tag-prebusiness","tag-shark-tank","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.holycross.edu\/business\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}