Business Plan Highlights

The 2006 $10,000 Boomer Business Plan Competition

The competition attracted 76 executive summaries from entrepreneurs with early-stage companies. Of these, 47% were from student teams; 53% were mid-career entrepreneurs.

Schools that submitted Executive Summaries, included Wharton (3), Stanford (6), Duke, University of Michigan, Santa Clara University, USC, Brown, Harvard, Northwestern and a wide range of other universities.  Submissions fell into 6 primary categories:  technology (24%), medical (14%), Financial (9%), Health – i.e supplements (6%), Apparel (3%) and pets.

Grand Prize Winner

iRhythm Technologies,
Cardiac rhythm monitoring device. iRhythm Technolgies, Inc. has secured VC funding and is actively developing its product for a market release in early 2008
Founder: Uday N. Kumar, M.D., Stanford University, Stanford, CA.

Finalists (in alphabetical order)

• ALCiS Health, Inc., CEO: Brian Berchtold, San Jose, CA, Santa Clara University. Develops, distributes and sells total body therapy solutions.
• In Your Home, Co-CEOs: David Dickinson and Brian Bartholomew, Portland, OR. Provides assessments and advice, basic modifications, complete remodeling services and on-going home maintenance to help seniors age-in-place.
• Novelios Pharmaceuticals, Inc., CEO: Daniel Catron , Duke University, Durham, NC. Developing a breakthrough class of drug that restores the eye's natural means of preventing glaucoma.
• Renovus, Founders: Vivek Munshi, Leslie Oley, Sean Scanlan, Rich Vecchiotti, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Offers a Complete solution for patients who have undergone ostomy surgery.

Finalist judges for the 2006 Boomer Business Plan Competition

Jennifer Fonstad, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Michael Goldberg, General Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Nancy Kamei, Investment Manager, Bio Med and Life Science, Intel Capital
Emilio Pardo, Chief Brand Officer, AARP
Jon Staenberg, Partner, Rustic Canyon Partners
Brad Vale, Vice President, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation

	John White, CEO, Stanford-based iRhythm Technologies and Amy Pruitt, Santa Clara University
	Left to right: Brad Vale, Vice President, Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation Jennifer Fonstad, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Michael Goldberg, General Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures Nancy Kamei, Investment Manager, Bio Med and Life Science, Intel Capital Jon Staenberg, Partner, Rustic Canyon Partners Emilio Pardo, Chief Brand Officer, AARP
	In Your Home, Portland, OR
	Dean Barry Posner, Leavey School of Business, SCU