Fall 2012 Business Concept Competition

Now that the World Series (thankfully, since I’m a lifelong Tiger fan) has ended and the Super Bowl won’t happen until February, it’s a great time to focus on the next enormous competitive battle – that’s right, the Fall 2012 Chico State Business Concept Competition. This year’s Final will be held Wednesday November 14 at 7:00 in Tehama 100. The public is more than welcome.

Past winners include Andrew Gazdecki with Bizness Apps (http://www.biznessapps.com/ ) and Jon Richardson, Hobie Jensen and Patrick Edelman of Upper Park Designs (http://upperparkdesigns.myshopify.com/password) whose first production run of awesome disc golf backpacks is on its way to America even as I write this post.

If you haven’t attended any prior events then I whole-heartedly urge you to come take this one in. The range and breadth of the ideas is always staggering. This year is no exception. Here’s a list of the finalists and their business ideas:

Aram Favala ...      Global U

Bernard Maushardt & Laurence Duterte...           Ronin Brewing Company  

Brett Conner, Kevin Crowe...     Impetus Calendar Management  

Jason Schroeder, Keith Rincon, & Ashley Croom ...    Northern California River Rafting  

Jeff Huckabay...   FoodEase

Joe Malinovsky et al ...     DUI Vanguard

Katharina Chiu ... MEETING PUNKT

Max Frederick ...  MusicSession

Nick Delucchi ... Greenware

Raette Meredith  ...         Artazine

Raette Meredith, Kami Rowedda, John Woolery ...               Puppicures

Ricky Owaki, Jasen Henderson, Jake Wade  ...     The Accordion Curtain

Ryan Robeson, Neoma Frary & Joe Malinovsky ... Textbooks to Cash

Sam Thomas, Nico Chesterton,  Andrew Paddock  ...      EcoRacks

Tyler Israel ...      EasyScrip

Don’t worry if you can’t quite understand what these businesses are supposed to do; neither do I. We'll find out together. That’s the beauty of Finals night. See you there!