2012 Mark Ain Business Model Workshops and Competition

Congratulations to the 2012 Winners

1st Place: LighTip - Cristina Canavesi (PhD), Nebiat Kidane ’12 (MBA), Cheng Shu ’12 (MS), Luis Soto ’12 (MS)

2nd Place: Mono-Mano - Travis Block ’12 (BS), Sara Hutchinson ’12 (BS), Dominic Marino ’12 (BS), David Narrow ’12 (BS), Martin Szeto ’12 (BS)

3rd Place: TrueSeal - Shaojie Liu ’12 (MS), Rachel Rakvica ’12 (MS), Sijia Sun ’12 (MS), Ethan Williams ’12 (MBA)

Finalist: Kukla Tea Company - Clarissa Perkins ’12 (BA)

Finalist: Poseidon - Nicole Varble ’12 (MS), Christopher McLane ’12 (MBA), Laurana Ryback ’12 (MS)



2012 Workshop 3: Video


2012 Workshop 2: Video


2012 Workshop 1: Video


Congratulations to the 2011 Winners

1st Place: Maravilla - Henry Eshenour ’11 (MBA), Tim DeGrave ’11 (MBA), Christopher Larsen ’11 (MBA)

2nd Place: TaaDoo - Kevin Beavers ’11 (EMBA), Chad Carta ’11 (MBA), Brennan Mulcahey ’11 (MBA), David Reiner ’11 (MBA)

3rd Place: OmNeo, LLC - Benjamin Freedman ’11 (BS), Johanna Kelly ’11 (BS)

Finalist: MRSA - Boris Alvarez ’11 (MS), Daniela Santibanez ’11 (MS), Sergio Toloza ’11 (MS)

Finalist: VendiCab - Seth Hauben ’11 (MBA), Alex Sylvester ’11 (MBA), Maya Boyd ’11 (MBA), Deirdre Corbi ’11 (MBA), Stanley Cheung ’11 (MBA)


2011 Mark Ain Business Model Competition: Full Video



2011 Workshop 2: Video


2011 Workshop 1: Video


Congratulations to the 2010 Winners

1st Place: MediTel Health Solutions - Benjamin George '13 (MD) and Jason Reminick '13 (MD and MBA)

2nd Place: QMD Biosystems - Christophe Dorrer'11 (MBA), Soumya Mitra '10 (MBA), and Jie Qiao '11 (MBA)

3rd Place: I-Squared Materials - Sriram Atchutuni '10 (EMBA), Pankaj Gupta '13 (PhD), Nitin Tyagi '11 (MS), and Weston Wicks '11 (MBA)

Finalist: Oregano.com - Byron Barnes '10 (MBA), James Hart '10 (MD and PhD), Brian Jenssen '10 (MD), Jason Morrow '10 (MBA), and Alexander Pearson '10 (MD and PhD)

Finalist: Arm EmBrace - Sara Ripp '10 (BS) and Kerry Wang '10 (BS)


2010 Mark Ain Business Model Competition: Full Video


2010 Workshop 3: Video


2010 Workshop 2: Video


2010 Workshop 1: Video


Congratulations to the 2009 Winners

1st Place: CustomEyes - Melissa Chow, Ying Geng, Rodrigo Mancilla, Abbie Tippie

2nd Place: MCH Management - Christopher Czarnecki, Jeffrey Haniff, Brian Mirochnik

3rd Place: Polynet Technology - Cheryl Blechman, Woojin Han, Alvin Lomibao, Charity Wallace

Finalist: Brightwave Solar, Inc. - Eric Christensen, Xinye Lou, Jonathan Sherwood, Raisa Velthuis

Finalist: Target Waveform, Inc. - Prashant Baveja, Shih-Shuan (Sean) Hsu, Matt Piede, Christy Sheehy


2009 Mark Ain Business Model Competition: Full Video


2009 Workshop 3: Video

Workshop 3: Financials, Cash Flow, Balance Sheets

Instructor: Gina Mangiamele, Assistant Director of Education and Counseling, Simon Graduate School of Business


2009 Workshop 2: Video and PowerPoint Presentation

Workshop 2: Competitive Analysis, Customer Identification, the 4 P's

Instructor: Kara Painting, Managing Partner/Creative Director, Dixon Schwabl Advertising

Workshop 2 Powerpoint Presentation by Kara Painting - PDF



2009 Workshop 1: Video

Workshop 1: Market Need, Opportunity, Idea Formation

Instructor: Dennis Kessler, Edward and Agnes Ackley Professor of Entrepreneurship at the

Simon Graduate School of Business and co-owner of Friendly’s and Burger Kings across upstate New York


2008 Mark Ain Business Model Competition: Full Video


2007 Workshop: Video

Workshop 1: Articulating your business idea



Watch Workshop 1 video separately