The Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Business Plan Competition is an event where students, faculty, and members of the community have a chance to present their business ideas and compete for prizes. Below are the winning teams of 2009.

Click here to view the PDF on the 2009 FAU Business Plan Competition

Investment Intensive Plans (require more than $1 million)

1^st place – Take My Stuff

TakeMyStuff.com is a service that will help its customers sell their excess inventory and overstock items found around the house and business. Statistics show that homeowners have, on average, over $2000 worth of “stuff” that can be sold for a profit. TMS.com philosophy is “You don’t have the time. We do.” TMS is willing to look for business in unusual places: estate sales, funeral homes (in those hard moments in life where small matters are cumbersome), moving, going away to college, divorce settlements, anywhere there is excess that needs a space.

Team Members: Armand Jeangeorges, Marie Miranda, Wayne St. Amand, Mia Valdes and Elliot Ziegelman

2^nd place – Boca Mom Inc.

Boca Mom Inc. has developed a safety device that will increase your chances for a quick and safe rescue. At the push of a button it sends a silent alert to a back end call center, and with built-in GPS technology, tracks your location while simultaneously alerting the authorities to your emergency.

Team Members: Katherine Fletcher, Michele McCauley and Jaime Williams

3^rd place -Generation Oxygen

Generation Oxygen is an exciting cause-driven website for 18-34 year olds. The site has multiple channels for members to positively contribute to society through charities, organizations, and fundraisers. The main focus is to create a brand image that connects with today’s younger generation, gives them social recognition for their contributions, makes donating as easy as possible, and keeps them on the site for repeated transactions.

Team Members: Jason Langford and Freddy Moldt

 

Limited Investment Plans (require less than $1 million)

 

1^st place – Student Housing Off Campus
Student Housing Off Campus' concept is to provide an off campus housing solution for FAU's students and faculty. We want to create on campus real estate location where the FAU community can conveniently come to take care of all of their real estate needs with professional, licensed agents.

Team Members: Steve Gabay, Andrew Haverstick and Marshall Sklar

2^nd place – Bicycle Transit System

Bicycle Transit System is a self-sustainable bicycle transit system that will be a more affordable, environmentally friendly and healthier way of transportation. BST would like to place the bicycle transit systems in all of the 11 public state Universities in Florida.

Team Members: Joey Baird, Abraham Cohen, Kyle Maier, Alvaro Gozales-Rubio and Chinar Shah

3^rd place – 4urConvenience.com

4urConvenience.com offers an online enhanced shopping list service that is open to the wide public and is integrated with any chain store the public is interested in. The service has the ability to support unlimited product types and to provide shopping lists filtered by items available at the stores visited.

Team Mebers: Adam Dier, Mark Henry and Tamara Kochen

 

 

 

 

* Cash and in kind gifts