UCCS team wins 2nd place in sports-business-plan contestOctober 29, 2011 - Post by Wayne Heilman, THE GAZETTE A firm headed by a University of Colorado at Colorado Springs graduate has won a $10,000 second prize in a new competition launched by the school for college students who are trying to develop business plans to support sports, health and outdoor recreation companies. DC Golf, which is trying to raise money to develop a smartphone application that allows golfers to receive instr..
October 26, 2011 - Posted by Tom Hutton The nation’s first sports/outdoors business plan competition attracted interest from across the country and several potential new businesses that would be a perfect fit in the Pikes Peak region, according to UCCS event organizers. Tom Duening, director, UCCS Center for Entrepreneurship and El Pomar Chair of Business and Entrepreneurship, promised more than $35,000 in prizes to teams of col..
November 3, 2011 - Wei-Yin Ko | News Editor Janji, a sports apparel company founded by Washington University students, won first place in the 2011 University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) Sports/Outdoors Business Plan Competition last weekend. The company beat out 15 other teams to win the first place prize of $20,000. “[The competition] was for student entrepreneurs, and most of the semi-finalists ended up be..
Student-run Janji named top social ventureWhat do cross country runners and the global food and water crisis have in common? Janji, a start-up venture created by members of Washington University's cross country team who wanted to figure out a way runners could do more than run in races to raise money for charities. Here's how Mike Burnstein '12 and Dave Spandorfer"11 describe how their plan for a sports apparel business to help provide safe water and food in deve..
Janji Location: St. Louis Team: Michael Burnstein (pictured) and Dave Spandorfer, friends from Washington University. Mission: Help fight the global food and water crisis by selling running shorts and t-shirts where approximately $4 of every sale goes to provide clean water and food in select impoverished countries. Strategy: Start as a for-profit company and build to become a B corporation. Be..