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Team LicketyShip Wins Annual Business Plan Competition
| On April 29, Team LicketyShip — composed of two seniors, three graduate students, and one 2002 graduate — won first prize in the fifth annual McCloskey Notre Dame Business Plan Competition, sponsored by the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and the Pace Global People’s Choice Best Presentation Award. The Business Plan Competition is one of three sponsored each year by the University. Each participating team had to have at least |  |
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or alumnus and represent an enterprise that was either in the conceptual or early-growth stage. Undergraduates Aaron Wenger, a senior in the Department Computer Science and Engineering, and Christopher Kelly, a senior in the Mendoza College of Business; MBA students Justin Carter, Radu Olievschi, and Sarah Coffman; and alumnus Robert Pazornik, who is currently attending Yale University, beat out 65 other entries to win. Their company, LicketyShip, connects online shoppers with local retailers for same-day delivery. The concept was a popular one. A week prior to the Notre Dame contest, LicketyShip placed second in the Jungle Competition, a business competition organized by Jungle Media Group and Fenwick and West LLP. In the Jungle contest, which was judged by venture capitalists and lawyers, LicketyShip competed against 250 other teams. Wenger, one of the two undergraduates on the team, served as the technical guru for the team, developing all of the requisite system software |
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| for LicketyShip. He was also one of the recipients of the 2005 Rev. Thomas A. Steiner, C.S.C. Award from the College of Engineering. A native of Mechanicsburg, Penn., Wenger is currently the co-chief of software engineering for the company. His role is to develop and maintain the LicketyShip Website, which held a test launch in the South Bend, Ind., region in June. |  |
Timothy J. Connors (B.S., EE ’89) mentored the group. Connors has long been active in the Gigot Center and most recently has been involved in the development of a high-tech entrepreneurial program in the College of Engineering. For more information or to view the LicketyShip site, visit http://licketyship.com
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| Editor’s
Note: A team from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering was also a finalist in the business plan competition.
Team members, shown left to right, Professor David
T. Leighton Jr.;
Andrew Downard (B.S., CBE, '04; M.B.A., '04); Diana Hou; Arun Ramachandran; and Siddarth Maheshwari (Zachary Gagnon and Eleanor Leighton not shown) presented a unique-to-Notre Dame nanoseparation technique that will enable researchers to pursue exciting new lines of pharmaceutical and semiconductor research. Leighton and the team intend to commercialize the process for academic and industrial users. |
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