Pace Lubin

 

 

ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS

First Place: Surge Systems Campaigns - Magen Wolmart (Dyson), Shantina Scott (Dyson), Alex Romanelli (Dyson)

Second Place: GENECSIS Real Time Data - Ligia Galvão (Lubin), Cristiano Galvão

Third Place: Green Neighbor - Athena Greschler (Dyson), Monique Rios (Dyson), Kevin Crompton (Dyson)


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Surge Systems Campaigns

 

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Executive Summary

Surge Systems and Solutions is an organization that will specialize in public relations, marketing, advertising, event planning, social media, and more. To help future clients with these efforts, we have created a platform called Surge. Surge will allow its users to save time when it comes to campaign plans as it will do a majority of the work for the client.

Our target market and potential users would be public relations professionals, marketers, and other business professionals involved in campaign plans. These plans range from small to in-depth plans for increasing brand reputations or driving revenue. They can involve social media, email blasts, newsletters, and more. However, these plans mean nothing if the user does not know how to properly evaluate them in order to understand its success. As Peter Drucker, an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author once said, “if you don’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”

The team at Surge Systems and Solutions have the knowledge of how these plans are created, tracked, and evaluated on paper. By using this and other formulas as a basis for Surge’s algorithm, Surge will provide its users with a cohesive, time-efficient campaign plan experience. Surge will launch with evaluation being its initial feature and will utilize the accounts’ information to track numbers such as likes, follows, clicks, and more. From these analytics, Surge calculates the statistics by date and lets its users see daily, weekly, and monthly reports. The evaluated information can also be compiled by individual platforms or it can compile all numbers into one for summaries. In regard to the practicality of digitalizing the campaign plan experience, various data supports that Surge will be utilized enough to be successful.

Take for instance Hootsuite, a free and premium application capable of planning social media posts and tracking the analytics. Initially released in November of 2008, Hootsuite currently has over 18 million users, ranking in the top 10 most popular social media management tools. Other free websites provide the basic ideas of how to create a campaign experience for a business.

Surge will improve upon these tools by providing a platform that not only does more for the user but provides an easier and more understandable customer experience. Surge easily tracks and reports data based on the user’s desired filters in order to correlate with their chosen return on investment field. For example, if the marketer determines success in relation to followers, statistics will relate to this. Other analytics are always available, but these would be shown first.

In addition to its focus on providing users with a simple, easy-to-use and intuitive experience, Surge will provide a free template for planning campaigns. Eventually, the app/website could be used to conduct and create these plans, all in one place. The ultimate goal of Surge is to extend beyond the campaign plan management system and platform and become a well-known brand.

Due to the knowledge and education that users already have, and all of the free options on the internet, Surge will be free to download and use but will have in-app/premium purchases available. Advertising will also be a primary function of monetary growth. Nonetheless, we are missing one vital aspect to our team which is someone with coding experience. With additional finances invested, we could pay a coder and handle website fees, other application fees, and marketing fees.

Since public relations professionals and marketers can agree that creating, conducting, and evaluating campaign plans is time consuming, engagement should prove to be successful, given that the proper marketing steps are taken. An engaging, yet simplistic, mobile and web experience is believed to be the first step.

 

 

Biographies

Magen Wolmart is a full-time student in the combined degree program in the Media, Communications, and Visual Arts Department in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences at Pace University. Her undergraduate major was communications, which she finished in the fall of 2019. Her concentration in graduate school is social media and public relations and her expected graduation date is August of 2020. Currently, Magen is working as a Social Media/Marketing Coordinator for Anonymous Alerts, LLC in White Plains, New York. In her undergraduate study, she designed a prototype for an application, called iHospital, to be used by doctors, nurses, EMTs, and other hospital employees. Magen enjoys innovation, especially when it aligns with her hobbies and passions. She is interested in starting her own business and has a love for event planning and writing.

 

 

Shantina Scott is a graduate student at Pace University. She is currently enrolled in the Media, Communications, and Visual Arts Department. She is a full-time student and her expected graduation date is May of 2021. Shantina holds over 15 years in sales and customer service experience and will transfer this experience into aiding in the success of this app. Shantina would help to sell, market, and brand this project. Her education at Pace University will help her execute this plan. She is dedicated and passionate about this project and truly believes that if given a chance this app could change the way campaigns are built in the future.

 

 

 

Alex Romanelli is a currently a communications student in the graduate program in Pace University’s Media, Communications, and Visual Arts department. His expected graduation date is December 2020. With broadcasting and communications in his family’s history, he is looking to continue the trend of working in communications. Alex’s grandfather had previously worked as a sound engineering technician for the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team and Milwaukee Brewers baseball team. Alex has a passion for helping children gain a better education and works closely in elementary schools with different special education organizations. Alex is setting out to create his own future in the world of communications. By combining his interests in education and communications, he hopes to find a career in media literacy. He is very passionate about sports, fashion, and helping others do their absolute best.

 


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GENECSIS Real Time Data

 

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Executive Summary

The GENECSIS company helps medium and large companies to grow up their business with data analysis, making possible to improve their sales and profit with better insights from their information. Our technology combines high end IoT (Internet of Things) concept with low-cost sensors and the very accessible Microsoft Excel to analyze real time data in a large scale using automated processes. With our service, instead of using people to manually input data in a slow pace and with the risk of human mistakes, our customers can collect a great variety of data about their environment, which helps them to detect losses, discover gaps in the production time and even understand seasonality on sales.

Every sector is moving to the digital transformation and we can help the companies to achieve this, no matter what their business is: finance, commerce, industry, entertainment, or even agribusiness. By using sensors, a farm for example can collect data of solar light intensity, temperature, humidity and wind speed, crossing with time and other data to optimize their production. A store can use movement detection to understand the best days with more customers to plan their offers and to sell more. The stores in Manhattan have a promising number of customers yet to be explored because of all the volume of data available in their services that they are not collecting and mining.

This is a huge market with just a few competitors. In fact, the main competitor of our service is the old method of manual data input, that we are coming to replace it. We offer a special solution because we can implement this IoT technology at a low cost and in a short time. Since we use Excel to analyze data, we talk about an existent software in most of our clients. This brings a positive impact not only because of the cost of licenses which are already paid, but also because of the know-how of their teams to work with the tool. We sell our kits thru an online store at the Amazon marketplace, using their logistics structure to distribute them around the US. Since we deliver the standard kits with a basic programming inside, our clients can start to use them immediately to read data. For the companies with special needs, we can go beyond by offering them thru our website some custom kits and special solutions, from data analysis dashboards and prediction tools, to complete digital panels that allows people to control external devices like alarms, doors, signs, engines and others.

By counting with a large variety of suppliers around the globe, we can grant a continuous deliver even in the case of interruptions in one of the suppliers. All the devices that we use in our solutions follow some international standards and are well available in the market. On this moment, we are seeking for investors that could inject $100,000 in our company to expand our development and sales team, so we will be able to scale our business by delivering more standard and custom kits to clients in all the United States.

 

 

Biographies

Ligia Galvão is a Bachelor’s in Business Administration (BBA) by Veiga de Almeida University and has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Strategic Management by the University of São Paulo. Currently, she is a Master’s degree student at Lubin School, majoring in Customer Intelligence and Analytics. She has extensive experience in the Business Intelligence area in Brazilian Pharmaceutical Industry, such as GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Merck. Throughout her career, Ligia has been working with data collection and data analysis to transform them on insights to support business strategies. Through the implementation of business intelligence tools and the development of dashboards, Ligia works to improve a data driven culture in enterprises. She is a data visualization expert who uses diverse graphic visualization techniques to convert data sets on information easy to be read and to be comprehend. Also, Ligia keeps a blog called Vamos Analisar to share relevant information about the data analytics world to the Brazilian audience.

 

 

 

 

Cristiano Galvão has been working with Information Technology since 1996. He is MBA in Management, Entrepreneurship and Marketing, graduated in 2019 with grade 9.7/10. He also owns a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, a postgraduate diploma in Business Management and IT, and an Associate diploma in Data Processing. He helps large companies to collect data from different sources and transform it on insights. He participates of technical communities helping to spread knowledge, learning a lot and giving some advice for those who seek to improve productivity on their companies using automated processes. One of his projects is Excel Turbo, composed of a YouTube channel and Facebook page with 20K+ followers. Other project that he runs is Excel Weekend, the largest Excel conference in Latin America, which brings together the best talents on this field. Although Excel and VBA are his specialties, he is always trying something new with other technologies like Power BI, PowerApps, Python, R, Machine Learning and the possibilities of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence on business world.

 

 

 


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Green Neighbor

 

 

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Executive Summary

Brief Business Description - A large majority of online shoppers say they've kept purchases that they actually intended to return, mainly because returns are a hassle. Green Neighbor’s mission is to get rid of inefficient, expensive, and slow return services while preventing excessive waste by implementing biodegradable packaging and full service delivery methods.

Opportunity/Problem - The online shopping experience is quick, easy and can be done from anywhere. The returning experience is not nearly as practical, and it comes with costs. Return policies, shipping costs and pure inconvenience. According to a study done by Digital Commerce 360 in 2019, roughly half of American consumers reported that physically shipping their returns was the single greatest challenge when returning online goods. Ordering stuff through the mail in and of itself is often considered to be environmentally unfriendly due to the packaging and traffic it generates. That is why we are aspiring to positively influence our consumers to make a more conscious and environmentally friendly effort when considering return services. Our target audience's main concern may not be based on the environment, but will definitely play a deciding factor when it comes to comparable rates and competitive services. Why not use a service that is more efficient and beneficial to all parties.

Solution (Our Mission) - Our mission is to redesign the return experience for online shoppers by allowing online consumers to receive confirmation of their returned items instantly to their phones.

Market - U.S. consumers that shop online and purchase from retail stores and or local businesses. We target online consumers in the U.S. of all races, genders and sexes from the ages of 18 - 70. Their estimated annual income ranges between $30,000-$150,000 who own a cell phone and have an understanding of how to use mobile apps.

The Green Neighbor Business Model: The Neighbor (Package collector) - Anyone with a driving license, a car and a background check can apply to be a neighbor. After screening, the package collector is enlisted in the system and given a Green Neighbor badge making them credible and verified.

The Consumer (Returner/client) - Registered users download the Green Neighbor app to their phones or log in online and if they have an item, they need to be returned they: #1 Scan or email receipt (customer must have printed or online receipt to upload digitally) #2 Select zip codes (sender & provider or from & to) #3 Select pickup date #4 Schedule pickup time (we print out an instant label, for an additional cost & convenience for the customer) #5 Input return item (optional, but can include a picture of the product to ensure quality before pickup & return, which is also essentially damage control for consumer & provider) #6 Lastly; Optional (Special delivery notes and action requests). They can also track the neighbor while they are in transit to the store. After arrival, they will receive confirmation that the item was returned and the money is on its way back to their account. This service is convenient for the online shopper looking to return their unwanted purchases at ease and feel in control from wherever they are at the reach of their fingertips.

Revenue Model - Customers will have to pay for a delivery fee and a cancellation fee if necessary. Amount of items and size will dictate pricing. The store in which the item is being returned will pay a percentage of our costs.

Marketing & Sales Strategy / Demand Generation - Early Adopter Advocacy (word of mouth), Referrals, Reviews, Partnerships (SandCloud), Endorsements , Social Media advertisements (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Podcast Endorsements).

Deliverables/Milestones - We would start in local areas, specifically small counties to test interest, demographics and target audience. After that initial time period we would then begin to expand and make our way into the cities as we grow. Once we receive feedback from consumers and gather data we can make a better prediction of our projected income and future ROI.

 

 

Biographies

Athena Greschler is a full time senior at Pace University in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences. She is currently studying for her Masters degree in Communications and Media Arts. She is expected to graduate in May 2021.
She’s traveled to over 33 countries and has interned internationally as a Social Media Marketing Assistant for a gastronomic marketing agency known as LaMaga Comunica. She has also interned with an environmental nonprofit, (CELF) Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation in content creation and event planning. She has experience as a teachers assistant and held numerous leadership positions throughout Greek Life, Residence Hall Association, and Her Campus. She also devotes time to volunteer with organizations such as Feeding Westchester and Teatown Lake Reservation.
She’s passionate about sustainability, innovation and creativity. She actively supports conservation efforts, local business, education and women empowerment. Her goals are to create original and engaging media content while ensuring complete transparency with the public.That is the key to success in communication.. She loves being a part of the Green Neighbor because of its unique, sustainable, quick and friendly return service.

 

 

Monique Rios graduated from Manhattanville College with a BA in Communications and a BS in Marketing. As a firm believer in networking, she always found herself connecting with people who inspired her and opened doors to several internships and jobs she pursued while maintaining a high GPA. A few years after graduating, her fascination with the communications industry urged her to pursue her master’s degree in Media and Communications at Pace University.
While building her knowledge as a part-time graduate student, she has fully immersed herself in her exposure, experience and growth as a Corporate Communications Intern at Ketchum - a Global Communications Consultancy. As a graduate student and intern, Monique has been grasping different parts of the business world and mastering ways to perform and present meaningful work. When she graduates on May 20th, 2020, she hopes to continue her work at Ketchum full time.
With her marketing and communications background, Monique aims to create informative content built on a communication strategy that is flexible and capable of defining the right channels and tools for business storytelling to thrive. Most importantly, she wants to use her critical thinking to generate solutions and encourage innovation.

 

 

Kevin Crompton graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Journalism. He minored in Business Administration and completed a Cognate in Marketing. He is currently pursuing a Masters of Arts in Media and Communications from Pace University.
As an undergraduate, Crompton served as the Editor-in-Chief of his student newspaper after his tenure as Sports Editor. Crompton led and managed a 13-person staff in producing a weekly newspaper paper. He oversaw the layout and design of the paper each week and adjusted the club budget from semester to semester.
Crompton also interned at CT Sports Now, a Connecticut based sports show that aired live every Monday through Friday from 10:30-11 p.m. In this role, he worked under intense deadline pressure as a multimedia journalist to shoot local games across the state, edit together highlight packages and present them as an anchor.
In his current position as a Graduate Assistant for Pace Athletic Communications, Crompton is involved in all marketing, promotions and public relations for athletics. He assists and manages gameday operations including serving as the main media contact on some occasions. He is in charge of gameday live streams and manages staff interns.


Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Entrepreneurship Lab (eLab) is transitioning the Sixteenth Annual Pace Pitch Contest to an online virtual format. Please use this link to see the RSVP and Registration instructions

Virtual Pace Pitch Signup Instructions

 

The Sixteenth Annual (Virtual) Pace Pitch Contest

Presented by

The Entrepreneurship Lab

Contest Date: Thursday, April 23rd 2020

 

  • 27-March : Registration Deadline
  • 30-March : Pre-selection Announcement
  • 30-March to 10-April : Pitch clinic(schedule an online appointment with Bruce Bachenheimer, the Executive Director, at bbachenheimer@pace.edu)
  • 10-April : Submit additional data | Digital photograph of each team member | PowerPoint presentation, 5 slides
  • 16-April : Record and submit your pitch(uploaded as an Unlisted video on YouTube)
  • 17-April to 22-April : Judging
  • 23-April : Winners will be announced.

Bal Agrawal, CEO, LifeWorx, Inc

Bal Agrawal, Founder and CEO, LifeWorx, Inc; founded the company where trust, Skill and good fit in “Care at Home” is assured. From his own experiences and life challenges, he recognized that help at home is random and does not need to be such! LifeWorx provide Eldercare, Nannies and Housekeepers to make client’s life fulfilling and home safe. Building exceptional organization, target Marketing, investing in technology and growing LifeWorx is Bal’s key focus. LifeWorx has one of the highest ratings on Google and it continues to grow with focus and high performing organization.

Previously, Bal worked for Linde for 24 years in Marketing, Sales, Business Development, Strategy and General Management. Bal graduated from IIT, Mumbai with Distinction in Engineering. He received Sc.D. from MIT in Material Science with minor in Finance.

 

Daniel Papes, President and Chief Commercial Officer, sndr

Dan has more than 30 years of unique experience in the technology industry, including serving as a Section 16 Officer of a $36B public company, Digital Realty, the largest Data Center REIT in the world. Known as an inspiring leader, turnaround expert, and “corporate entrepreneur”, he has worked for IBM (27 years), Westcon Group (a $6B IT distributor), Siemens Networking Systems (President, North America), and Mainspring (a pre and post IPO ecommerce consulting company). Among his achievements include leading the acquisition of Mainspring by IBM, launching IBM’s e-commerce cloud/hosting business, creating a venture capital funded business inside the IBM portfolio named Mobile Enterprise Services, transforming the culture of Digital Realty from a real estate company to a customer-centric solutions provider while doubling sales volumes, and turning around a rapidly declining business for Siemens Networking to generate double digit growth. Dan has a BA from Vanderbilt University.

 

David Pike, Founder, New York Trolley Company

David Pike is a serial entrepreneur with 10+ ventures spanning multiple industries. He has been featured in Forbes, The New York Times, New York Post, Huffington Post, Business Insider, and VentureBeat among other publications. David is a mentor and advisor for startups at Founder Institute. He has guest lectured on entrepreneurship at his alma mater, the University of Michigan, where he graduated with a BSE in Industrial Engineering.

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Commuter 2.0 Universal ID Card

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Executive Summary

Our team has a vision of creating a more equal college experience for both residential and commuter students. According to the National Centre for Education Statistics, 19.9 million students attended colleges in Fall 2019. Out of which approximately 86% are commuter students, as per Laura Horn, Director of the Center for Postsecondary Education Research, RTI International. The problem is that there is a large number of college students that are commuting but their experience isn’t as fulfilling as residents because they experience multiple limitations. They aren’t given access to buildings like residents do, or are able to use their student identification cards to purchase food and things the way that residents can. These limitations are affecting commuters' college experience in a negative way.

We have come up with an innovative, modern and realistic solution that helps us decrease the gap in college experiences for commuters. Our initiative is a universal student identification card that allows both residents and commuters access to all locations on campus, including residents halls which often lock commuter students out after a certain time.

Some college campuses don’t have commuter meal plans, and our universal card would allow commuter students to have the same meal plan as their peers who live on campus. The one thing that every university/college president wants is to grasp the attention of potential students and increase their numbers. Creating a product such as our Commuter 2.0 student identification card would show that schools are taking an innovative and inclusive step forward to making the college experience equal to every student that enrolls.

Our market is all college campuses that have a fair amount of both commuter and resident students. The card will be created on each individual campus that chooses to use this product. We will garner funds from universities and off campus private companies as well, through sponsorship. The main aim would be to provide a large customer base for these companies and in turn they will provide certain benefits for students. There will be an annual fee to host the card and will be based off of the university as a whole. The product is currently in prototype development to be completed by July 2020 with a sales launch planned for the Spring semester in 2021.

Although most colleges will try to make commuter students feel more included by having commuter lounges, having commuter exclusive events on campus, etc.but this still leaves a divide between commuters and residents. Our universal ID card eliminates this segregated approach by utilising the existing ecosystem which is there for resident students. This makes our initiative both cost and time efficient for universities and students. Our ID card allows everyone to have an equal experience.

When some colleges give student ID cards, they place a sticker on it as well that states if the student is a resident or a commuter. Our new card would get rid of these stickers and have a new sleek design that would be consistent for all students.

 

 

Biographies

Shashank Dipankar is currently pursuing Masters in media studies & communication from Pace University. He has a bachelors in English literature and language and has also studied political science and philosophy. Later, he went on to do a Post Graduate diploma in print journalism. He went on to work in the field of journalism and joined India's oldest financial daily newspaper, The Financial Express, where he was covering the automobile, real estate and retail industry. Prior to that he successfully operated his own content website, covering current affairs across various topics and worked with a team of 20 writers. He has also worked as a managing editor for one other digital media startup.

 

 

 

Nigeria Belizario is a full-time graduate student of Media and Communications at Pace University with an expected December 2020 graduation date. She is interested in pursuing a career in the entertainment industry as a writer, correspondent and producer. As a transfer student who commutes to and from campus, she has a good understanding of the pros and cons that come with it. Prompting her to create a commuter friendly universal student card, for students like herself that don’t have the same access to campus amenities like their peers who live on campus. She’s excited to compete in her first ever Pace Pitch competition.

 

 

 

Arianna Santiago is a graduate student at Pace University in the Media and Communications Master of Arts program at the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences. She has been studying Communications and Media since 2015 and earned a Bachelor of Arts majoring in Communications at Manhattanville College in Spring 2019. From working multiple part time jobs and commuting to and from campus, Arianna understands the limitations and setbacks that commuting puts on your college experience. She is passionate about making the college experience more inclusive and equal for everyone on campus.

 

 

 


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GENECSIS Real Time Data

 

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Executive Summary

The GENECSIS company helps medium and large companies to grow up their business with data analysis, making possible to improve their sales and profit with better insights from their information. Our technology combines high end IoT (Internet of Things) concept with low-cost sensors and the very accessible Microsoft Excel to analyze real time data in a large scale using automated processes. With our service, instead of using people to manually input data in a slow pace and with the risk of human mistakes, our customers can collect a great variety of data about their environment, which helps them to detect losses, discover gaps in the production time and even understand seasonality on sales.

Every sector is moving to the digital transformation and we can help the companies to achieve this, no matter what their business is: finance, commerce, industry, entertainment, or even agribusiness. By using sensors, a farm for example can collect data of solar light intensity, temperature, humidity and wind speed, crossing with time and other data to optimize their production. A store can use movement detection to understand the best days with more customers to plan their offers and to sell more. The stores in Manhattan have a promising number of customers yet to be explored because of all the volume of data available in their services that they are not collecting and mining.

This is a huge market with just a few competitors. In fact, the main competitor of our service is the old method of manual data input, that we are coming to replace it. We offer a special solution because we can implement this IoT technology at a low cost and in a short time. Since we use Excel to analyze data, we talk about an existent software in most of our clients. This brings a positive impact not only because of the cost of licenses which are already paid, but also because of the know-how of their teams to work with the tool. We sell our kits thru an online store at the Amazon marketplace, using their logistics structure to distribute them around the US. Since we deliver the standard kits with a basic programming inside, our clients can start to use them immediately to read data. For the companies with special needs, we can go beyond by offering them thru our website some custom kits and special solutions, from data analysis dashboards and prediction tools, to complete digital panels that allows people to control external devices like alarms, doors, signs, engines and others.

By counting with a large variety of suppliers around the globe, we can grant a continuous deliver even in the case of interruptions in one of the suppliers. All the devices that we use in our solutions follow some international standards and are well available in the market. On this moment, we are seeking for investors that could inject $100,000 in our company to expand our development and sales team, so we will be able to scale our business by delivering more standard and custom kits to clients in all the United States.

 

 

Biographies

Ligia Galvão is a Bachelor’s in Business Administration (BBA) by Veiga de Almeida University and has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Strategic Management by the University of São Paulo. Currently, she is a Master’s degree student at Lubin School, majoring in Customer Intelligence and Analytics. She has extensive experience in the Business Intelligence area in Brazilian Pharmaceutical Industry, such as GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Merck. Throughout her career, Ligia has been working with data collection and data analysis to transform them on insights to support business strategies. Through the implementation of business intelligence tools and the development of dashboards, Ligia works to improve a data driven culture in enterprises. She is a data visualization expert who uses diverse graphic visualization techniques to convert data sets on information easy to be read and to be comprehend. Also, Ligia keeps a blog called Vamos Analisar to share relevant information about the data analytics world to the Brazilian audience.

 

 

 

 

Cristiano Galvão has been working with Information Technology since 1996. He is MBA in Management, Entrepreneurship and Marketing, graduated in 2019 with grade 9.7/10. He also owns a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, a postgraduate diploma in Business Management and IT, and an Associate diploma in Data Processing. He helps large companies to collect data from different sources and transform it on insights. He participates of technical communities helping to spread knowledge, learning a lot and giving some advice for those who seek to improve productivity on their companies using automated processes. One of his projects is Excel Turbo, composed of a YouTube channel and Facebook page with 20K+ followers. Other project that he runs is Excel Weekend, the largest Excel conference in Latin America, which brings together the best talents on this field. Although Excel and VBA are his specialties, he is always trying something new with other technologies like Power BI, PowerApps, Python, R, Machine Learning and the possibilities of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence on business world.

 

 

 


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Green Neighbor

 

 

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Executive Summary

Brief Business Description - A large majority of online shoppers say they've kept purchases that they actually intended to return, mainly because returns are a hassle. Green Neighbor’s mission is to get rid of inefficient, expensive, and slow return services while preventing excessive waste by implementing biodegradable packaging and full service delivery methods.

Opportunity/Problem - The online shopping experience is quick, easy and can be done from anywhere. The returning experience is not nearly as practical, and it comes with costs. Return policies, shipping costs and pure inconvenience. According to a study done by Digital Commerce 360 in 2019, roughly half of American consumers reported that physically shipping their returns was the single greatest challenge when returning online goods. Ordering stuff through the mail in and of itself is often considered to be environmentally unfriendly due to the packaging and traffic it generates. That is why we are aspiring to positively influence our consumers to make a more conscious and environmentally friendly effort when considering return services. Our target audience's main concern may not be based on the environment, but will definitely play a deciding factor when it comes to comparable rates and competitive services. Why not use a service that is more efficient and beneficial to all parties.

Solution (Our Mission) - Our mission is to redesign the return experience for online shoppers by allowing online consumers to receive confirmation of their returned items instantly to their phones.

Market - U.S. consumers that shop online and purchase from retail stores and or local businesses. We target online consumers in the U.S. of all races, genders and sexes from the ages of 18 - 70. Their estimated annual income ranges between $30,000-$150,000 who own a cell phone and have an understanding of how to use mobile apps.

The Green Neighbor Business Model: The Neighbor (Package collector) - Anyone with a driving license, a car and a background check can apply to be a neighbor. After screening, the package collector is enlisted in the system and given a Green Neighbor badge making them credible and verified.

The Consumer (Returner/client) - Registered users download the Green Neighbor app to their phones or log in online and if they have an item, they need to be returned they: #1 Scan or email receipt (customer must have printed or online receipt to upload digitally) #2 Select zip codes (sender & provider or from & to) #3 Select pickup date #4 Schedule pickup time (we print out an instant label, for an additional cost & convenience for the customer) #5 Input return item (optional, but can include a picture of the product to ensure quality before pickup & return, which is also essentially damage control for consumer & provider) #6 Lastly; Optional (Special delivery notes and action requests). They can also track the neighbor while they are in transit to the store. After arrival, they will receive confirmation that the item was returned and the money is on its way back to their account. This service is convenient for the online shopper looking to return their unwanted purchases at ease and feel in control from wherever they are at the reach of their fingertips.

Revenue Model - Customers will have to pay for a delivery fee and a cancellation fee if necessary. Amount of items and size will dictate pricing. The store in which the item is being returned will pay a percentage of our costs.

Marketing & Sales Strategy / Demand Generation - Early Adopter Advocacy (word of mouth), Referrals, Reviews, Partnerships (SandCloud), Endorsements , Social Media advertisements (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Podcast Endorsements).

Deliverables/Milestones - We would start in local areas, specifically small counties to test interest, demographics and target audience. After that initial time period we would then begin to expand and make our way into the cities as we grow. Once we receive feedback from consumers and gather data we can make a better prediction of our projected income and future ROI.

 

 

Biographies

Athena Greschler is a full time senior at Pace University in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences. She is currently studying for her Masters degree in Communications and Media Arts. She is expected to graduate in May 2021.
She’s traveled to over 33 countries and has interned internationally as a Social Media Marketing Assistant for a gastronomic marketing agency known as LaMaga Comunica. She has also interned with an environmental nonprofit, (CELF) Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation in content creation and event planning. She has experience as a teachers assistant and held numerous leadership positions throughout Greek Life, Residence Hall Association, and Her Campus. She also devotes time to volunteer with organizations such as Feeding Westchester and Teatown Lake Reservation.
She’s passionate about sustainability, innovation and creativity. She actively supports conservation efforts, local business, education and women empowerment. Her goals are to create original and engaging media content while ensuring complete transparency with the public.That is the key to success in communication.. She loves being a part of the Green Neighbor because of its unique, sustainable, quick and friendly return service.

 

 

Monique Rios graduated from Manhattanville College with a BA in Communications and a BS in Marketing. As a firm believer in networking, she always found herself connecting with people who inspired her and opened doors to several internships and jobs she pursued while maintaining a high GPA. A few years after graduating, her fascination with the communications industry urged her to pursue her master’s degree in Media and Communications at Pace University.
While building her knowledge as a part-time graduate student, she has fully immersed herself in her exposure, experience and growth as a Corporate Communications Intern at Ketchum - a Global Communications Consultancy. As a graduate student and intern, Monique has been grasping different parts of the business world and mastering ways to perform and present meaningful work. When she graduates on May 20th, 2020, she hopes to continue her work at Ketchum full time.
With her marketing and communications background, Monique aims to create informative content built on a communication strategy that is flexible and capable of defining the right channels and tools for business storytelling to thrive. Most importantly, she wants to use her critical thinking to generate solutions and encourage innovation.

 

 

Kevin Crompton graduated from Southern Connecticut State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Journalism. He minored in Business Administration and completed a Cognate in Marketing. He is currently pursuing a Masters of Arts in Media and Communications from Pace University.
As an undergraduate, Crompton served as the Editor-in-Chief of his student newspaper after his tenure as Sports Editor. Crompton led and managed a 13-person staff in producing a weekly newspaper paper. He oversaw the layout and design of the paper each week and adjusted the club budget from semester to semester.
Crompton also interned at CT Sports Now, a Connecticut based sports show that aired live every Monday through Friday from 10:30-11 p.m. In this role, he worked under intense deadline pressure as a multimedia journalist to shoot local games across the state, edit together highlight packages and present them as an anchor.
In his current position as a Graduate Assistant for Pace Athletic Communications, Crompton is involved in all marketing, promotions and public relations for athletics. He assists and manages gameday operations including serving as the main media contact on some occasions. He is in charge of gameday live streams and manages staff interns.


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International Global App

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Executive Summary

International Global App is a software application which has been developed to address certain specific problems related to the alien settings of international students.

A 2019 UNESCO report listed the international student rate at 5.3 million, with more than half of them enrolled in educational programs in six western countries. Many of these newlyadmitted students face a variety of challenges, such as culture shock, financial support, language barrier and academic writing. While schools of the host countries enable programs and platforms to address and ease these major problems, other areas of concern however fall outside the coverage of the well-meaning provisions.

One such area is a glaring lack of professional development resources to enhance the preparation of these international students for work in their chosen business environments. In this regard, this application attempts to resolve this challenge by providing information, tips and a social networking platform for international students to assimilate better and navigate the potential paths of the professional environments easily.

Our university-based application will operate as a social platform for international students to engage with other university students and academic programs, learn new cultures and potentially prepare them for future professional endeavors. This platform would be accessible on Blackboard with a Pace University email and password, and will allow both international and non-international students to communicate and collaborate together for networking, social support and tutoring purposes. Our platform will use automated data generated from student profiles on the platform in order to offer a generated pairing between two students with similar backgrounds and/or professional goals. The application will also function as an open platform for general student interaction.

This venture seeks to address difficulties within job searching and academic program involvement as international students adjust to new environments. According to Andrate in the Journal of Research in International Education, one of the major adjustments for international students is English language proficiency and culture which ultimately affect academic involvement. International Global App seeks to aid in the international student acclimation experience by acting as an educational and social resource for these students to learn from and connect with other students, ultimately increasing academic involvement and confidence to enter the workforce post-graduation. It also aims to add educational tools in the future such as facial recognition software to identify non-verbal cues and an interactive English language learning software, all of which, we hope, would lead to increase international students' involvement in academic programs by September 2020 from 0% to 30% of all international students’ associations.

Based on the measure of its hopeful success within the Pace University community, International Global App shall be made available as a resource tool to all New York Universities to spread the benefits to other enrolled international students, and, ultimately the country if it continues to find relevance within the academic community.

 

 

Biographies

Christly Hernandez is a full-time Media and Communications graduate student at Pace University with an expected graduation date of May 2021. She has earned a bachelor’s degree in media and communications from SUNY New Paltz and has gained valuable production experience through several internships and freelance positions at media start-ups and is interested in pursuing a career in Video Editing Being an American student, she can provide a different point of view into understanding what international students need and how students like her can be involved in the application we are pursuing. Her hobbies include going to the gym, cooking and mixing music.

 

 

 

Malika Duisebek is a Full-time graduate student at Pace majoring in Media and Communications. She has earned a bachelor’s degree form marketing and her International work and academic experience with foreign students made it possible to understand the differences in cultural communication in the classroom as well as in the work environment which turned into the passion to create the tool for international students to collaborate effectively in the global work environment. Malika is currently an operations and social media intern, leading social networks for media platforms for Pace University Career Services.

 

 

 

Kobby Amoako Bekoe is a graduate student of Media and Communication Arts at Pace University. He is a trained filmmaker (New York Film Academy), aspiring screenwriter, and a short story writer whose work has appeared in Open Road Review, (South Asia’s Leading Magazine of Literature and Culture) and other magazines in his native Ghana. He also has a background in graphics design and indulges in it mostly as a creative pastime.

 

 

 


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Media and Comms Pamphlet Book

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Executive Summary

Our team has a vision of creating a physical pamphlet book by graduate students for Media & Communications incoming, current, prospective, and future students. What we are passionate the most about is creating a go-to booklet with all the requirements and timelines for each semester in order to eliminate the current mass confusion.

The ability to supply students with this booklet will greatly decrease the current mass confusion and increase the understanding of what is required to graduate on time.

The pamphlet would outline all the requirements and explain the details associated with the program that cause confusion now. There are two paths you can take, one towards Filmmaking and the other towards Media/Social Media. Explaining that breakdown and the elective courses offered for each is the first section. Included in the details is an explanation and requirements list between the internship or thesis that students get to choose to complete the programs. At the end of the programs, a comprehension exam brings a lot of uncertainty to the students and confusion is closely followed. A fully detailed list of what is needed to submit the semester before with the exam rules and an outline will bring clarity to the students in the program.

 

 

Biographies

Akanksha Kashyap is currently a student of Dyson School of Arts and Sciences pursuing M.A in Media and Communication Arts. She has her undergraduate degree in B.A (Journalism and Mass Communication) from Amity University, Mumbai, India. Along with that, she also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Print Journalism from Indian Insitute of Journalism and New Media, Bangalore, India. She has been quite active in the field of journalism, from interning at the best newspapers and news channels in India. She is extremely energetic and passionate about communication. With a flair in writing, she is an able leader that posseses impeccable communication skills.

 

 

Emily Arrieta is a graduate student at Pace University working on her Master’s Degree in Digital Filmmaking and Media Production. Emily loves all forms of art and media. She is employed as a school photographer and her goal is to apply her knowledge and skills in the film industry. Her daily goal is to create perfect photos that give people joy for their whole lives. Her long term goal is to have a long career in the media, cultural and creative industries in the areas of television, film, video, and digital media. She enjoys collaborating with her fellow industry members to create, innovative images and video. Emily has a whimsical sense of humor and enjoys employing it to create media. Emily has created two short films the Spooky Chase and Stick Figure Summer Camp.

 

 

 

Hayley Foutz is an energetic, passionate, and ambitious person in all aspects of life. Her curiosity extends to wanting to learn as much information as she can about subjects so she can understand them better. She has the ability to apply the detailed necessary information in a layout that catches the eye. Her background knowledge involves the fields of social media, communications, research, and journalism. She is a current student in the Pace University graduate program for Media & Communications, and graduated with her undergrad at Pace University in the Spring of 2019. She looks forward to a bright future in the communications world where she will get to interact with people daily.

 

 


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Surge Systems Campaigns

 

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Executive Summary

Surge Systems and Solutions is an organization that will specialize in public relations, marketing, advertising, event planning, social media, and more. To help future clients with these efforts, we have created a platform called Surge. Surge will allow its users to save time when it comes to campaign plans as it will do a majority of the work for the client.

Our target market and potential users would be public relations professionals, marketers, and other business professionals involved in campaign plans. These plans range from small to in-depth plans for increasing brand reputations or driving revenue. They can involve social media, email blasts, newsletters, and more. However, these plans mean nothing if the user does not know how to properly evaluate them in order to understand its success. As Peter Drucker, an Austrian-born American management consultant, educator, and author once said, “if you don’t measure it, you can’t improve it.”

The team at Surge Systems and Solutions have the knowledge of how these plans are created, tracked, and evaluated on paper. By using this and other formulas as a basis for Surge’s algorithm, Surge will provide its users with a cohesive, time-efficient campaign plan experience. Surge will launch with evaluation being its initial feature and will utilize the accounts’ information to track numbers such as likes, follows, clicks, and more. From these analytics, Surge calculates the statistics by date and lets its users see daily, weekly, and monthly reports. The evaluated information can also be compiled by individual platforms or it can compile all numbers into one for summaries. In regard to the practicality of digitalizing the campaign plan experience, various data supports that Surge will be utilized enough to be successful.

Take for instance Hootsuite, a free and premium application capable of planning social media posts and tracking the analytics. Initially released in November of 2008, Hootsuite currently has over 18 million users, ranking in the top 10 most popular social media management tools. Other free websites provide the basic ideas of how to create a campaign experience for a business.

Surge will improve upon these tools by providing a platform that not only does more for the user but provides an easier and more understandable customer experience. Surge easily tracks and reports data based on the user’s desired filters in order to correlate with their chosen return on investment field. For example, if the marketer determines success in relation to followers, statistics will relate to this. Other analytics are always available, but these would be shown first.

In addition to its focus on providing users with a simple, easy-to-use and intuitive experience, Surge will provide a free template for planning campaigns. Eventually, the app/website could be used to conduct and create these plans, all in one place. The ultimate goal of Surge is to extend beyond the campaign plan management system and platform and become a well-known brand.

Due to the knowledge and education that users already have, and all of the free options on the internet, Surge will be free to download and use but will have in-app/premium purchases available. Advertising will also be a primary function of monetary growth. Nonetheless, we are missing one vital aspect to our team which is someone with coding experience. With additional finances invested, we could pay a coder and handle website fees, other application fees, and marketing fees.

Since public relations professionals and marketers can agree that creating, conducting, and evaluating campaign plans is time consuming, engagement should prove to be successful, given that the proper marketing steps are taken. An engaging, yet simplistic, mobile and web experience is believed to be the first step.

 

 

Biographies

Magen Wolmart is a full-time student in the combined degree program in the Media, Communications, and Visual Arts Department in the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences at Pace University. Her undergraduate major was communications, which she finished in the fall of 2019. Her concentration in graduate school is social media and public relations and her expected graduation date is August of 2020. Currently, Magen is working as a Social Media/Marketing Coordinator for Anonymous Alerts, LLC in White Plains, New York. In her undergraduate study, she designed a prototype for an application, called iHospital, to be used by doctors, nurses, EMTs, and other hospital employees. Magen enjoys innovation, especially when it aligns with her hobbies and passions. She is interested in starting her own business and has a love for event planning and writing.

 

 

Shantina Scott is a graduate student at Pace University. She is currently enrolled in the Media, Communications, and Visual Arts Department. She is a full-time student and her expected graduation date is May of 2021. Shantina holds over 15 years in sales and customer service experience and will transfer this experience into aiding in the success of this app. Shantina would help to sell, market, and brand this project. Her education at Pace University will help her execute this plan. She is dedicated and passionate about this project and truly believes that if given a chance this app could change the way campaigns are built in the future.

 

 

 

Alex Romanelli is a currently a communications student in the graduate program in Pace University’s Media, Communications, and Visual Arts department. His expected graduation date is December 2020. With broadcasting and communications in his family’s history, he is looking to continue the trend of working in communications. Alex’s grandfather had previously worked as a sound engineering technician for the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team and Milwaukee Brewers baseball team. Alex has a passion for helping children gain a better education and works closely in elementary schools with different special education organizations. Alex is setting out to create his own future in the world of communications. By combining his interests in education and communications, he hopes to find a career in media literacy. He is very passionate about sports, fashion, and helping others do their absolute best.

 

 

Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Entrepreneurship Lab (eLab) is transitioning the Sixteenth Annual Pace Pitch Contest to an online virtual format. Please use this link to see the RSVP and Registration instructions

Virtual Pace Pitch Signup Instructions

About the Contest

The Pace Pitch Contest is based on the Elevator Pitch concept, popular in the venture capital community. It is an extremely concise presentation of an entrepreneur's idea, business model, marketing strategy, competitive analysis, and financial plan, which is delivered to potential investors. The premise is that it could be made in a few minutes, should the entrepreneur spot a potential investor on an elevator and have the opportunity to pitch their idea during the brief ride.

Each Finalist will have exactly three minutes to pitch their new venture idea to a distinguished panel of judges and an enthusiastic audience. In addition to broad participation at Pace, we have been pleased to welcome student competitors from a number of other universities, including Columbia, Harvard, MIT, NYU, Princeton, and Stanford.

Due to the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Entrepreneurship Lab (eLab) is transitioning the Sixteenth Annual Pace Pitch Contest to an online virtual format. Please use this link to see the RSVP and Registration instructions

Virtual Pace Pitch Signup Instructions

(1) Rules: At least one team member should be a Pace Student or alumnus (graduated within past 18 months), and any venture should have been in business for less than 2 years and received less than $100K in funding

(2) (Deadline: 27-March) Registration via email to entrepreneurship@pace.edu from the team lead only, with the following:
        (a) a list of team members with a biography (100-200 words) detailing student status, school, degree, major, graduation year, and other information.
        (b) a ONE PAGE executive summary of the pitch for the website.

(3) Pre-selection Announcement: This will take place on Monday, 30-March. Teams will be notified of their selection at this time for competition.

(4) Pitch clinic: If pre-selected, you must schedule an online appointment via Zoom with Bruce Bachenheimer, the Executive Director, at bbachenheimer@pace.edu between 30-March and 10-April.

(5) (Deadline: 10-April) Additional data to provide to entrepreneurship@pace.edu include:
        (a) a digital photograph of each team member (separately)
        (b) The PowerPoint presentation, using only 5 slides as this is the limit.

(6) (Deadline: 16-April) Record and submit your pitch! Email the 5 slide PowerPoint presentation and link to a 3 minute video, which is uploaded as an Unlisted video on YouTube, to entrepreneurship@pace.edu

(7) Judging will take place between April 17 and 22, with winners bring announced 23-April. Winners will be notified and will have to send their details for the prizes. 

New Business Concepts Pitch Guidelines | Social Ventures Pitch Guidelines | Ten Questions That You Should Try To Answer

New Business Concepts Pitch Guidelines

 

New Business Concepts will be evaluated on the following judging criteria.

  • 1. Business Description: Details of the venture and what it does.
    • How well was the concept explained?
    • How reasonable, sustainable, and scalable is the new concept?

  • 2. Market Analysis: Characteristics of the market and description of its customers.
    • Is there a genuine need for the product or service?
    • How well was the target market defined?
    • What is the size and growth of the market?
    • What is the consumers' willingness to pay for the product/service?

  • 3. Product or Service Analysis: The specifics of the product or service.
    • Is the description clear?
    • Is the product feasible?
    • How easily it can be duplicated?
    • Is there a presence of potential substitutes for the product?

  • 4. Competition: Identify current and potential competitors.
    • Have the current and potential competitors, competitive response, and analysis of strengths and weaknesses been adequately defined?

  • 5. Marketing Strategy: How sales will be achieved.
    • How realistically defined is the marketing plan?
    • Does the plan adequately address price, product, place, and promotion?
    • Are resources sufficiently allocated for marketing?

  • 6. Operations: How the product or service will be produced and delivered.
    • What is the likelihood of securing resources required for production?
    • Is there an ability to operate competitively and grow?

  • 7. Management: An assessment of the entrepreneur(s) and team.
    • Does the team exhibit the experience and skills required for operation?
    • What is the depth and breadth of the team's capabilities?
    • Does the team demonstrate the ability to grow with the organization and attract new talent?

  • 8. Finances: An overview of the required resources and economics of the venture.
    • How compelling is the business model?
    • Have the resources required for the venture been addressed?
    • Has the team clearly and adequately presented a breakeven analysis?
    • How reasonable are the financial projections?
    • Are there prospects for long-term profitability?

  • 9. Investment Proposal: The terms and conditions offered to investors.
    • Did the entrepreneurial team explain funding?
    • Were offerings to investors and anticipated returns clearly explained?
    • Did the team calculate a realistic valuation?
    • How feasible is the exit strategy?

  • 10. Presentation: Overall effectiveness of the actual presentation.
    • Did the presenter(s) engage the audience and hold their attention?
    • Did the presenter(s) appear to speak with confidence authority?
    • Were visual aids (i.e. PowerPoint® slides) clear and valuable?
    • Was the pitch exciting and compelling?
    • How efficiently did the team allot their time?

 

Social Venture Pitch Guidelines

 

Social Ventures will be evaluated on the following judging criteria.

  • 1. Assessing the Need: An analysis of the social issue and its affected population.
    • Does the proposed venture address a significant and critical social problem?

  • 2. Well-defined Target: Characteristics of the market and targeted population.
    • Does the proposed venture adequately describe the problem it hopes to address and have defined parameters within which it plans to operate?

  • 3. Management: An assessment of the entrepreneur(s) and team.
    • Does the entrepreneurial team possess the skills and experience required to translate the plan into action?
    • Can they demonstrated the passion, commitment, and perseverance required to overcome inevitable obstacles?
    • Is the team comprised of individuals committed to ethical standards?

  • 4. Creativity: A demonstration that the proposed solution displays a unique approach.
    • Does the proposal approach the social problem in an innovative, exciting, and dynamic way?

  • 5. Feasibility: A demonstration that the venture can be successfully implemented.
    • Does the initiative aspire towards clear, realistic and achievable goals, while thinking big?
    • Can it be implemented effectively?

  • 6. Planning: A clear and well-defined strategy to achieve objectives and goals.
    • Are there clear and coherent schedules, milestones, objectives, and financial plans?

  • 7. Operations: How the product or service will be physically produced and distributed.
    • Has adequate attention been given to the way in which the product or service is to be produced and/or delivered?
    • Do they have, or can likely secure, the resources required for production?
    • Will they be able to operate competitively and grow?

  • 8. Sustainability: Long-term prospects for viability and success.
    • Does the proposed venture include adequate strategies for fundraising and income generation?
    • Does it consider the different dimensions of financial and social sustainability in a conscientious manner?

  • 9. Social Impact: The value that the new venture will bring to society.
    • How will the implementation of this social venture benefit the community and the multiple stakeholders involved?
    • Is there the potential for significant social impact and engagement of the broader community?

  • 10. Presentation: Overall effectiveness of the actual presentation.
    • Did the presenter(s) engage the audience and hold their attention?
    • Did the presenter(s) appear to speak with confidence authority?
    • Were visual aids (i.e. PowerPoint® slides) clear and valuable?
    • Was the pitch exciting and compelling?
    • How efficiently did the team allot their time?

* While there is some debate regarding the precise definition of a social venture, and what exactly differentiates it from a traditional for profit business, the Selection Committee and Judging Panel will use the following criteria:

  • PRIMARY MISSION - is the organization's primary purpose to serve its owners (New Business Concept) or society (Social Venture)
  • PRIMARY MEASURE OF SUCCESS - does the organization measure its success primarily by profitability (New Business Concept) or positive social change (Social Venture)

 

Ten Questions That You Should Try To Answer

 

Whether pitching a New Business Concept or a Social Venture, try to address the following ten big questions as completely as possible. Remember, you should not simply talk about a general idea (those are "a dime a dozen"), rather, try to present a concise concept with a cleareconomic model, convincing everyone that you can actually make it happen.

  • 1. What's the PROBLEM?
  • 2. What's your SOLUTION?
  • 3. How large is the MARKET?
  • 4. Who is the COMPETITION?
  • 5. What makes you so SPECIAL?
  • 6. What's your ECONOMIC MODEL?
  • 7. How exactly will you achieve SALES?
  • 8. Have you assembled a qualified TEAM?
  • 9. How will you secure required RESOURCES?
  • 10. What are you proposing for an INVESTMENT?

Suggested reading: The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki (Penguin 2004), especially Chapter 3, "The Art of Pitching"

First Prize

A $1,000 cash prize will be awarded to the winner.

Second Prize

A $500 cash prize will be awarded to the second place.

Third Prize

A $250 cash prize will be awarded to the third place.

Pace University reserves the right to disqualify, at its sole discretion, any individual or team from the competition at any time (before or after the Pitch Contest or the award of any prize) for any reason. Reasons for disqualification may include, but are not limited to, misrepresentations in the application process, plagiarism, infringement of the intellectual property of others, and any failure to comply with the rules of the competition. Disqualified individuals or teams shall forfeit any and all prizes awarded to them.


 

 


Previous Pitch Contests

Fifteenth Annual Pace Pitch Contest (April 22nd, 2019)
Fourteenth Annual Pace Pitch Contest (April 19th, 2018)
Thirteenth Annual Pace Pitch Contest (April 20th, 2017)
Twelfth Annual Pace Pitch Contest (April 14th, 2016)
Eleventh Annual Pace Pitch Contest (April 16th, 2015)
Tenth Annual Pace Pitch Contest (April 17th, 2014)
Ninth Annual Pace Pitch Contest (April 18th, 2013)
Eighth Annual Pace Pitch Contest (April 19th, 2012).
Seventh Annual Pace Pitch Contest (April 11th, 2011).
Sixth Annual Pace Pitch Contest (December 3rd, 2009).
Fifth Annual Pace Pitch Contest (December 4th, 2008).
Fourth Annual Pace Pitch Contest (December 6th, 2007).
Third Annual Pace Pitch Contest (November 17th, 2006).
Second Annual Pace Pitch Contest (December 9th, 2005).
Inaugural Pace Pitch Contest (December 3rd, 2004).

 

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