Welcome to the 2008 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards!
We are gearing up for a smashing 2008 Awards competition. In 2007, the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards received over 750 nominations from student entrepreneurs at 300+ universities in 14 countries. From those 750 and through our 13 regional competitions the field was narrowed down to 23 global finalists from 6 countries that competed for the title.
This year, we’re going to top that and more! So what are you waiting for, student entrepreneur? Get yourself nominated and win this competition!
CLICK HERE TO NOMINATE FOR THE 2008 GLOBAL STUDENT ENTREPRENEUR AWARDS!
(L to R: Erik Fjellborg, Third Place, Calnet | Fraser Doherty, First Place, SuperJam | Kendal Harazny, Second Place, TicketGold)
The press release says it all…
November 8, 2007
Contacts: Erik MacKinnon - emackinnon@eonetwork.org
Student from Scotland wins 2007 Global Student Entrepreneur Award
Super Jam product makes victory sweet in international competition
Students from Sweden, Canada, United States compete in Final Six
Chicago – Fraser Doherty of Scotland went against the conventional wisdom of his peer group’s expertise with web-based business ventures and instead turned to an old family recipe. He began making homemade jam in his parents’ kitchen using his grandmother’s recipes and selling the jam to neighbors and townspeople.
Before going off to the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, he devoted a year to developing a recipe for his “Super Jam” made entirely from fruit and fruit juice high in nutrients. When he finished, he had a manufacturing partner and contracts at some of the biggest grocery retailers in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Eat Super Ltd. was born.
Doherty emerged from a group of finalists to win this year’s Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) competition – the “Heisman Trophy” for top undergraduate student business owners – representing collegians from 14 countries, more than 300 colleges and companies which have produced more than $13 million in annual revenues.
Winnowed down from more than 750 nominees, the 23 finalists – representing Puerto Rico, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Australia and the United States this month made presentations to a judging panel of accomplished business leaders and educators assembled by the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). These student finalists, whose businesses ranged from college-centric specialties to catering to communications, run companies with annual revenues from $30,000 to $4.3 million.
The EO, with support from its sponsoring partner Mercedes-Benz Financial, has annually searched the world since 2006 for the top student business owner. The organization assumed responsibility for the program originated in 1988 by Saint Louis University’s John Cook School of Business.
Doherty will receive $10,000 in cash, a year’s tuition for the EO Accelerator Program (which combines peer mentoring with targeted classroom curriculum to aid early stage entrepreneurs withstand the pitfalls of business startups), attendance at the an EO conference, approximately $30,000 in donated services from EO member companies – including Web services, public relations, general business consulting and printing – and a year’s mentoring by an EO member. Additional prizes are awarded to all finalists, with those finishing in second and third places receiving cash as well as services.
Finishing in second and third place, respectively were: Kendal Harazny, University of Alberta, TicketGold; and Erik Fjellborg, Stockholm School of Economics, Calnet. Others in The Final Six were: Andrew Cavitolo, Farleigh Dickinson University, Three Guys and a Girl; Michael Kopko, Harvard, Dorm Aid; and Sean Maney, University of Massachusetts, HairMax Software.
Congratulations to ALL competitors in the 2007 GSEA Global Finals - here they are!
Remember - 15 November 2007 is the launch of the 2008 Global Student Entrepreneur Awards… and we have some all new tricks up our sleeve to be announced soon!
