2008/2009
Entrepreneur of the Year!
Jacob Willis
Allure Album Designs
Second Place: Amanda Kleen, The Lighter 1
Third Place: Ashleigh Livingston & Carrie Stewart,
Nu Intentions
All the plans received a check for $500 and Jacob Willis was awarded an additional $2500 as Entrepreneur of the Year. Nu Intentions received the Social Entrepreneur Scholarship ($200) from an anonymous donor and The Dagger Project and The Lighter 1 each received The David and Dorothy Latter Free Enterprise Scholarship ($250 each).
Congratulations To All the EEP Participants!
Pictured above are the 2008-09 EEP Exposition Participants. From left to right, front row: Amanda Kleen, Tanya Johnson, Dustin Kunkel, Anna Runion, Dalia Andrade. Second row, left to right: Ian Grier, Jim Houliston, Phil Barnes, Paul Gentry, Jon Bassett, Ashleigh Livingston, Jon Crane, Carrie Stewart, Jordan Cherry, Robert McCarty, Chris Gutierrez, Kyle Duffy, Jacob Willis.
The group then moved to the Fermanian Conference Center which then gave each of the thirteen projects four minutes to do their “elevator pitch” for their project followed by questions from the twenty-one judges who traveled from not only the San Diego region but also Boise, Phoenix, Fresno and Sacramento. All of the judges are experienced entrepreneurs and business persons and represent a wide variety of business sectors. Following the pitch and question time the group ended the evening with dessert on the Plaza. Now in its second year, the PLNU Entrepreneur Enrichment Program exists to support the burgeoning interest of the PLNU community in entrepreneurship and small businesses, both for-profit and non-profit, across all academic disciplines and interests of PLNU students. In the inaugural 2007-08 EEP, seven student-entrepreneur projects completed the program and were honored at the Entrepreneur Banquet in May of 2008. The EEP is a co-curricular program that provides business mentoring and incubation assistance from skilled entrepreneurs and business leaders through a six month project incubation process that culminates in a completed market-ready business plan. In the next week the judge’s scoring sheets will be tabulated and selected projects will advance to the incubation and mentoring process.
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2008/2009 EEP Projects
Garbage Mining Co. Ian Grier: Business Administration
Nu Intentions
Carrie Stewart: Business Administration
Ashleigh Livingston: MBA
San Diego BikeShare
Chris Gutierrez: Business Administration
Jordan Cherry: Journalism (SP 2007 Graduate)
Project NEIBA Mentoring Program
Dalia Andrade: Business Administration
Cabanga Textbooks
Phillip Barnes: Environmental Science
Honey Rewards
Tanya Johnson: Business Administration
Allure Album Design
Jacob Willis: MOCM (SP 2008 Graduate)
Urban Roots Cafe
Jon Crane: Business Administration
Anna Runion: MA Theology
Anit Enterprise
Jonathan Bassett: Graphic Design
SolarBright
Dustin Kunkel: Business Administration
Lighter 1
Amanda Kleen: Consumer & Environmental Science/Fashion Merchandising
Deontic Fine Imports
Robert McCarty: International Development Studies
Kyle Duffy: Business Administration
The Dagger Project
Paul Gentry: MBA
Jim Houliston
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