Contestant Submissions – January 2021

December 30, 2020

Read The Full Prompt

Craft a Perfect Pitch – In 10-12 slides, describe your entrepreneurial idea or proposed change initiative in a way that demonstrates the solution’s value to your audience. As with the personal cases in DSI, change initiatives can be generalized as a recommended strategy for Company X, operating in Y industry, and no sensitive internal information should be shared. Similarly, HBAP’s Community Values and Academic Honesty policies apply – any entrants who violate the integrity of the competition may be disqualified, so we ask that you uphold these values at all times. Remember, selected finalists will only have 10 minutes to present to our panel of judges, and must include the following details in their proposal:

  • Team members (individual submissions accepted)
  • Problem statement – clearly articulate why your solution is needed
  • Proposed solution – how will you meet this need?
  • Value proposition – what benefits are derived from addressing the problem, for both the organization and its target market?
  • Implementation plan – indicate the steps you will take to make this solution viable, including plans for scaling and contingencies to address potential pitfalls

If you need help getting started, this template from the HBAP short course might help to formulate your pitch.

Submit Your Pitch – Please Read Carefully – You will submit your pitch by logging into this platform in the upper right corner of the screen and submit via the Submit link on this page. If you cannot recall your password from when you submitted your DSI Personal Case, you can perform a password reset.

Important: You must load your slides in one by one as exported PowerPoint images and not as a link to an existing PowerPoint deck. For each slide, you have the opportunity to provide context and notes for each image to the judges and audience.

Please review this video on the About page to submit your pitch properly and qualify for the competition.

For reference, here is an example of a submission that follows the guidelines. Additionally, check out this article for 10 key elements of a successful startup pitch deck, with real examples from founders and backed by investors.

You will be able to edit and upload revised versions of your presentation until Wednesday, December 30 at 5 p.m. ET. Submissions will be open for comments and revision until that date, so you can incorporate any edits throughout that window, with only the final submission formally reviewed for selection.

Important: For those interested, Marily Nika will hold a workshop on Thursday, December 3 at noon ET about pitching and pitch deck best practices – Zoom link.

Submitted (15)

Hiring Reimagined
Maryse Williams
Last modified on December 16, 2020 at 6:49 am
Hiring reimagined, disrupting staffing, bringing people analytics to the very top of the hiring funnel.
My EduPrint: Disrupting How Education is Delivered and Optimized
Lisa Z. Morstad
Last modified on December 30, 2020 at 3:35 pm
Education is ripe for technological disruption. Massive amounts of data exist but have not been harnessed and enhanced to fully optimize the experience for all.
WatchOut! – Data Analytics & Business Intelligence for Luxury Watches
Jon Brewton
Last modified on December 21, 2020 at 11:55 am
The opportunity is clear, there is no platform application consisting of historical pricing information that buyers, collectors, and sellers can use to make the best purchase, at the best price, at any time. Owners are devoid of knowing when to [...]
Bizloop – Small Business Network
Amanda Fetch
Posted on December 22, 2020 at 7:03 pm
Bizloop – Are you a small business owner who is currently present on FB, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram who just wants to focus on your business completely without the distractions of politics, news, and negativity present today all over social [...]
locAID: AI-Optimized Platform for Mobile Healthcare Workforce Dispatch
Jeremy Kahn
Last modified on February 7, 2021 at 7:30 pm
locAID is an AI-driven workforce optimization tool designed for nurses and other medical professionals who travel to the patient’s location to provide clinical care.
GetEngagednGo.com
Vivek Hans
Last modified on December 30, 2020 at 4:41 pm
A Social platform uniquely focused on social causes to empower and engage at the grassroot levels, providing transparency and mechanisms to increase enrollment and fund raising opportunities.
TEAM EARTH – How do we facilitate massive planetary cooperation?
∞ = 1
Posted on December 30, 2020 at 2:45 pm
The proposed platform will facilitate massive planetary cooperation by expanding the corporation's identity to include the communities within which they operate. How can we organize this into existence?
OVERTIME│initiative — Collaboration, Community, and Cultural Expansion at HBAP (aka The MOST Important Pitch to HBAP ever!)
Todd Brous
Posted on December 30, 2020 at 3:06 pm
OVERTIME│initiative — Collaboration, Community, and Cultural Expansion at HBAP (aka The MOST Important Pitch to HBAP... ever!)
Boom! A Social Media Platform Made For You
Nick Lee
Last modified on December 30, 2020 at 3:48 pm
Boom! is a social media platform built for families and older adults. Our mission is to make the internet accessible and relevant to them.
Pop A Word
Roland Ding
Last modified on December 30, 2020 at 4:56 pm
Use your words to do wonders.
Coin: Secure Payments and Business Analytics for Small and Medium-sized Businesses
Jamal Sinclair O'Garro
Last modified on December 30, 2020 at 4:58 pm
Coin aims to provide secure payments, robust business analytics and next generation banking services for the small and medium-sized enterprises of the world leveraging blockchain technology.
LinX
Rima Abu-Hamdan
Last modified on January 13, 2021 at 6:47 am
A comprehensive platform that provides instant, customized matching between need and supply in the non-profit domain.
A platform for the entrepreneurial ecosystem
Rika Tsitsinia
Last modified on January 20, 2021 at 1:11 am
BizCollab is a multi-sided platform This was submitted to the pitch competition for the HBAP immersion Jan ’21 Please Contact Rika Tsitsinia if you are interested or have any quetions.
GROXAO: Sustainable Urban Gardens
Lucas Meyers
Posted on December 30, 2020 at 5:03 pm
Groxao is a solution to address urban food deserts through education, advocacy, resources and shared space.
The Business of Science’s BioFin Score
Pamela Groen
Posted on January 3, 2021 at 6:49 pm
Maximize return and minimize risk throughout teh lifecycle of an investment using teh BioFin Score.