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Gigot Center Announces
Business Plan Competition Winners
The Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies awarded Christopher Ladd ('02), Stephen Colucci (ND Ph.D. '75) and D. Scott Null the $20,000 grand prize during the College's business plan competition in April.
The winning venture, "PartScope," is an online replacement parts ordering system for consumer durables such as lawnmowers and kitchen appliances.
Special awards were also given to:
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Seattle Raindrops, LLC -- Best Bootstrap Venture; Melissa O'Loughlin White (JD '97) and Richard E. White.
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Haiti BedNet -- Best Social Entrepreneurship Venture; Keith Smith (MBA '01). Haiti BedNet manufactures and provides insecticide-impregnated mosquito bed nets to Haiti's poor.
Finalists
were chosen from among 75 alumni, graduate and undergraduate teams. Members
of the IrishAngels network served as judges for the competition. For more
information, visit www.nd.edu/~entrep