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NEWS:
In the News
November 24, 2006
Best of Boot Camp
Ann Arbor SPARK Honored Entrepreneur Boot Camp Participants at Celebration
Ann Arbor SPARK honored participants at the Entrepreneur Boot Camp Celebration held Tuesday at SPARK Central. The evening highlighted the Best of Boot Camp award winner, Greg Guidice of RazorThreat, and keynote speaker, Lisa Vallee-Smith of Airfoil Public Relations. The ninth Entrepreneur Camp, an intensive two-day business planning and preparation program, was held on November 2 and 3.
Guidice was awarded an initial engagement with the Business Accelerator valued at $5,000. RazorThreat is an enterprise network security company whose software aggregates and correlates threat data from multiple network security applications and applies corporate communication policies to remediate the threat.
“Boot Camp is an invaluable process for start-ups,” said Guidice. “It provided us with the discipline and practice needed to further advance our businesses and learn how to appeal to investors. I am honored to be selected among many fascinating companies and this only motivates me to work harder to accomplish my goals; I highly recommend all startups to participate in this program.”
“The teams were judged on the following metrics: Well-defined target market, staging an appropriate management team and business model,” noted Chuck Salley, Entrepreneur Boot Camp drill instructor. “We thank the many volunteers and mentors who helped guide these teams to achieve the next milestone on their road to success.”
Other successful teams participating in Boot Camp were 6hippo, Advanced Technology of Michigan, Biotectix, Blaze Biomedical Devices, GeneVivo, InflaRx, Smart Antenna and The Bravest.
Lisa Vallee-Smith, CEO and co-founder of Airfoil Public Relations, recalled her experiences as a boot camper in 2001 in her keynote address. Vallee-Smith shared the constructive criticisms she received at Boot Camp that have stayed with her as her once start-up has grown into a successful and profitable firm.
Ann Arbor SPARK’s Entrepreneur Boot Camp is an intensive business planning and preparation event designed to help early stage technology businesses increase their chances of attracting additional funding, finding resources and achieving success.
The next Entrepreneur Boot Camp will be held April 26 & 27, 2007; registration deadline for the 2007 Boot Camp is April 9.
About the Entrepreneur Boot Camp
Launched in September 2002 with funding from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation SmartZone program and administered by Ann Arbor SPARK, the Entrepreneur Boot Camp engages seasoned entrepreneurs as mentors to assist with early stage business planning. The Boot Camp funds critical activities to reach key milestones of business development. Past Boot Camp participants include PolyTorx, a concrete reinforcing additive; INVIA Solutions (formerly known as 4DMSpect), a software supplier for cardiac imaging; and Compendia Bioscience, a bioinformatics company for cancer detection.
For additional information about the Entrepreneur Boot Camp, please visit www.annarborspark.org/business-resources/launching-your-business/boot-camp
About Ann Arbor SPARK
Representing all communities in Washtenaw County, Ann Arbor SPARK, a non-profit organization, is the driving force in establishing the Ann Arbor region as a destination for business expansion, retention, and location by identifying and meeting the needs of business at every stage, from startups to large organizations. Ann Arbor SPARK collaborates with business, academic, government, and community investor partners including the University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, the Herbert and Grace Dow Foundation, Pfizer, Washtenaw County, the City of Ann Arbor, the Bank of Ann Arbor, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and the LDFA. For more information, please call (734) 761-9317.
Source:
Annarborspark.org
(http://www.annarborspark.org/about-us/press-releases/best-of-boot-camp/)
TESTIMONIALS
“RazorThreat's Threat Analysis Console (TAC) provides our customers with a second order analysis of the information they are receiving from their existing security equipment. This second order analysis enables them to find threats that have gotten through their existing security equipment, thus increasing the ROI of that equipment but more importantly making their environment more secure.”
~ Robert Jerome, Chief Executive Officer – RJ Networking, Inc.
