{"id":207859,"date":"2018-12-04T14:10:04","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T19:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/?page_id=207859"},"modified":"2019-12-06T14:08:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T19:08:09","slug":"2019-pitch-contest-results","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/2019-pitch-contest-results\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Contest Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our winners of our 2019 pitch contest were:<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Place &#8211; $50,000:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Mavo Care:<\/strong><br \/>\nLisa Noesi, gender sexuality &amp; women&#8217;s studies<br \/>\nKenna Brockway, visual communications design<br \/>\nNicole Curley: visual communications design<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Place &#8211; $20,000:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Hypeman:<\/strong><br \/>\nAnthony Russo, marketing<br \/>\nRobert McPherson, computer science<\/p>\n<p><strong>Third Place &#8211; $10,000:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Good Deed Bead:<\/strong><br \/>\nLauren Elwell, alumna 2018 (was family and child studies)<br \/>\nJacqueline Lynch, sports, events &amp; tourism marketing<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/newscenter\/2019\/05\/10\/a-perfect-pitch-helps-a-startup-clean-up-at-inventors-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read about the 2019 contest and winners.<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/montclairstateuniversity.smugmug.com\/2019\/050819-SBUS-Pitch-Contest\/n-ZMDKsK\/\" target=\"_blank\">View photos from the 2019 contest.<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lk1EBSpjbKY\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the Recap Video from the event!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Preliminary Round consisted of the following, due in March 2019:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a. Signed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2019\/02\/MSU-Annual-Student-Pitch-Competition-Agreement-2019-FINAL-022719-PDF.pdf\">pitch competition team agreement<\/a>\u00a0(all team members must complete and sign the agreement; one agreement per team)<\/li>\n<li>b. Video of no more than 2 minutes, zero seconds in mp4 format only.<\/li>\n<li>c. One-page executive summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"m_-6899760911289786158gmail-m_8251248410622809622gmail-m_-9045690812325847164gmail-s1\">Only current Montclair State University students and alums were eligible to enter.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Contest Prizes and Payment Process<\/h2>\n<p>The contest featured a prize pool of $80,000 awarded as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First prize: $50,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Second prize: $20,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Third prize:\u00a0$10,000<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At each prize level, 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<\/p>\n<h2>Hear from the 2018 Winners<\/h2>\n<p>In the videos below, last year&#8217;s first-prize winner, Wheatpaste, offers advice and insight on how they succeeded in the contest.<\/p>\n<h3>Wheatpaste Team Profile:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Video: Wheatpaste Team Profile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T0bVb3u9yXc?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>Wheatpaste on What Makes a Good Idea:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Video: Wheatpaste on What Makes a Good Idea\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EQ4jIZSfdmI?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>Wheatpaste on Preparing for the Pitch Competition:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Video: Wheatpaste on Preparing for the Pitch Competition\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oszC5HB3mE8?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>Wheatpaste on How They Won the Contest:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe title=\"Video: Wheatpaste on How They Won the Contest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p5fPRf2IQoc?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<h2>Contact Information<\/h2>\n<p>Questions about the contest should be addressed to: <a href=\"mailto:pitchcontest@montclair.edu\">pitchcontest@montclair.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our winners of our 2019 pitch contest were: First Place &#8211; $50,000: Mavo Care: Lisa Noesi, gender sexuality &amp; women&#8217;s studies Kenna Brockway, visual communications design Nicole Curley: visual communications design Second Place &#8211; $20,000: Hypeman: Anthony Russo, marketing Robert McPherson, computer science Third Place &#8211; $10,000: Good Deed Bead: Lauren Elwell, alumna 2018 (was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":208198,"parent":0,"menu_order":32,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-207859","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207859"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209004,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/207859\/revisions\/209004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/entrepreneur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}