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Press and Pictures HOPKINS TEAM WINS GBTC MOSHPIT COMPETITION BALTIMORE, MD (4/27/07) -- Four Johns Hopkins students are the winners of the 2007 MoshPit Business Plan Competition. Billed as the region's coolest business plan competition, MoshPit was created by the Greater Baltimore Technology Council (GBTC) to simulate the real-life world of an entrepreneur as students from area colleges and universities experience every aspect of starting a business, from recruiting employees to securing investment funding. The members of this year's winning MoshPit team - Veros - include: Student Entrepreneur Stephen Chen, Stephanie Huang, Jason Hsu, and Jeffrey Choi, all of whom attend Johns Hopkins University. More
Veros, Pictured with the Judges and Executive Director of the GBTC Click here to view the all seven teams that made the Finals!
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FINALISTS NAMED FOR GBTC MOSHPIT COMPETITION BALTIMORE, MD (4/18/07) - The votes are in and seven student teams will be advancing to the Finals in the Greater Baltimore Technology Council's (GBTC) annual MoshPit business plan competition. "The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in Greater Baltimore and it is proven every year by the innovation and creativity of the business plans submitted, representing a diverse range of industries from medical devices to online social networking," says Melanie Kelleher, the GBTC's Director of Programs and Partnerships. Kelleher adds, "MoshPit was created to provide students with the experience of starting a business. Based on the quality of the business plans received, all of the MoshPit participants are off to an outstanding start." More
JUDGES NAMED FOR GBTC'S MOSH PIT COMPETITION BALTIMORE, MD (4/11/07) - Venture capitalist Steve Walker and BDMetrics CEO Rick Geritz are among the group of prominent area business leaders named today by the Greater Baltimore Technology Council (GBTC) to judge the Finals of this year's MoshPit, dubbed "the world's coolest business plan competition." Other judges for the MoshPit Finals - to be held on Thursday, April 26 at UMBI (Columbus Center, 701 East Pratt Street, Suite 200, Baltimore, MD) - are: Jenny G. Morgan, Principal of Sterling Partners and former CEO of ViPS, Inc.; Jason Pappas, CEO of EntreQuest; and Nora Zietz, Managing Director of Red Abbey Capital Partners. "MoshPit is an excellent vehicle for showcasing and accelerating untapped talent within Greater Baltimore's entrepreneurial community," notes Morgan. "It is an honor to judge such an impressive group and, hopefully, have a hand in helping them on the road to success." More
AREA COLLEGE STUDENTS GET READY TO WHEEL AND DEAL AT "THE PIT" BALTIMORE, MD (3/28/07) - Ladies and gentlemen, it's time to wheel and deal. Are you ready to enter "THE PIT"? Today, the Greater Baltimore Technology Council's (GBTC) will host "THE PIT," the main event in the GBTC's unconventional business plan competition for college students throughout Maryland - MoshPit (aka "the World's Coolest Business Plan Competition"). Taking place at the Law Offices of DLA Piper (6225 Smith Avenue in Mt. Washington) from 5:30-8:30 p.m., "THE PIT" is a free-for-all at which student entrepreneurs present their ideas for starting new businesses while trying to recruit the best "executive" team of fellow students and advisors, drawn from GBTC member companies. More
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MOSH PIT ROCKS ON IN ITS SIXTH YEAR BALTIMORE, MD (3/7/07) --- Over 130 students from 10 regional Universities submitted ideas for this year's MoshPit - aka the "world's coolest business plan competition" -- created by the Greater Baltimore Technology Council's (GBTC) in 2002. "This competition continues to far exceed our expectations each and every year. The ideas are outstanding and the business plans are incredibly well developed. Throw in the multitude of connections that get made between these students and our business community and it's truly become a home run program for the GBTC and, more importantly, this region," says GBTC Executive Director Steve Kozak. "Now we're seeing more and more of the student teams continue to develop their ideas well after the competition, creating real businesses." More |
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