The GSEA arrived on a very rainy Monday 4 June in Fairfield, Connecticut for the latest round of regional competition - the GSEA New York and Connecticut Regional Finals.该gsea来到了一个非常有雨周一6月4日在费尔菲尔德,康涅狄格,为最近一轮的区域竞争中铸辉煌-g sea纽约和康涅狄格州的地区决赛。 Tropical Storm Barry couldn’t bring down the spirits of our fantastic student entrepreneur finalists, and our panel of judges.热带风暴巴里不能把神的奇妙,我们的学生创业者进入决赛,而我们的法官小组。

(L to R: Jeff Goldblum, President of ( 1到r :杰夫。高先生 SWC Office Furniture 深港西部通道办公室家具 , Marc “Doc” Kirshner, Owner of MDK Healthcare Mgmt., Jude Tallman, Owner of ,马克的"文件 " kirshner ,老板mdk保健mgmt的,犹大书tallman ,所有者 Spec Personnel 规范人事 , Stephen Jones, Partner at Jones Sledzik Garneau & Nardone, LLP, Steven Showalter, CEO of 斯蒂芬琼斯,合伙人琼斯sledzik加诺& nardone ,物流园,潘国发现的,总裁兼首席执行官 Statlinx statlinx , Doug Mellinger, CEO of 道格mellinger ,总裁兼首席执行官 Foundation Source 基金会源 and Richard Goldberg, President of 和理查德戈德堡总统 Warm Thoughts Communications 温暖的想法通讯 .) ) 。
The day started out with the host, Doug Mellinger - CEO of当天开始与东道国道格mellinger -兼首席执行官 Foundation Source基金会源 , sharing a story of his entrepreneurial background and experience.分享一个故事,他的创业背景和经验。 Doug told the tale of one of his first business ventures - loading up his car with boxer shorts that he had planned to sell in Florida during Spring Break.道说故事,他的一个第一次创业-装载了他的汽车与短裤,他曾计划出售在佛罗里达州,在春假期间。 Turns out that he was lacking permits, sunshine, and a willing group of buyers.原来,他是缺乏许可证,日照,并愿意组的买家。 Once Doug and his partner did manage to sort things out, it turned out that the students around wanted sunglasses, not boxer shorts.曾道和他的伙伴却清理出来,原来,这是学生大约要戴太阳镜,而不是短裤。 Doug happily bought all the sunglasses available from a supplier in another city and was able to cover the costs of his trip and of the boxer shorts that they had bought but not managed to sell.道愉快地买了所有的太阳眼镜可从供应商在另外一个城市,并能够支付其费用的,他此行的短裤说,他们买了,但没能设法推销。 A great story in learning from your failures!一个伟大的故事,在学习上从你的失败!
Boris Soldo, CEO of鲍里斯索尔多,总裁兼首席执行官 Solmac, Inc solmac公司 . 。 was the first student to present.是第一个学生都能够出席。 Boris shared his story of immigrating to America from Croatia with his background in apprenticeship as a tool and die maker.鲍里斯分享他的故事,移民到美国,从克罗地亚与他的背景,在学徒作为一种工具和模具制造商。 His biggest challenge was finding initial investment, as his business of custom machining and fabricating metal parts is heavily capital intensive.他的最大的挑战是寻找初始投资,因为他的业务定制加工,制造金属零件是大量的资本密集型的。 He solved this challenge through constant learning and revising his business plan, which he evolved to convince the banks to take a risk on a young entrepreneur with a vision.他解决了这个挑战,经过不断的学习和修改他的业务计划,这是他演变,以说服银行承担风险对一个年轻的企业家,一个远景。
Kafui Assiobo-Tipoh was next up. kafui assiobo - tipoh是明年了。 Immigrating to the USA from Togo in 2001, Kafui originally wanted to be a pharmacist but had found her passion in helping people to feel beautiful.移民到美国旅游,从多哥在2001年, kafui本来想以一名药剂师,但已经找到了她的热情,在帮助人们感觉到美丽。 Her business, Adjoa’s Custom Hair Braiding was purchased through working other jobs until she had saved enough to buy the business.她的生意, adjoa的习俗头发编织购买了工作,通过其他工作,直到她拯救了,要不要买业务。 Kafui explained to the judges how the business worked, how she had gotten other family including her sister involved and was looking to grow and expand. kafui解释法官如何业务工作,她是如何得到了其他家族,包括她的妹妹参与和期待,壮大和发展自己。
Bryan Vaughan, CEO of布赖恩沃恩,总裁兼首席执行官 Paper Garden Records本文花园纪录 had just moved to New York four days prior but was ready and willing to display his business and how they were helping to evolve the indie record niche.刚搬到纽约的四天之前,但被准备并愿意展示他的业务,以及它们如何帮助形成了独立纪录利基。 Using some fantastic custom drawings to show his model compared to the big music companies both impressed the judges and got them laughing.如果用一些神奇风俗画,以表现出他的模式相比,大唱片公司都留下深刻的印象法官和一一记下大笑。 Bryan is continuing to sign new artists and to grow his label which focuses on proper, ethical treatment of artists and capitalizing on the rise of interest in the indie rock niche.布赖恩是继续签署新的艺术家和成长,他的标签,其中的重点是正确的,合乎道德的处理艺术家和利用的崛起感兴趣,在独立摇滚利基。
Next up was GSEA veteran Bert Gervais, CEO of接下来是gsea资深的bert gervais ,总裁兼首席执行官 ThePlaceFinder.com theplacefinder.com who had competed at the GSEA Global Finals in 2006.曾竞相在gsea全球总决赛于2006年。 Bert was fired up to present and described how he had survived a near complete torpedoing of his business when his entire website crashed and was barely recoverable.度过被解雇,至现时为止,并介绍了他如何幸存近乎完全torpedoing他的生意时,他的整个网站坠毁,是勉强可以收回的。 From this disaster Bert has completely rebuilt the business and has focused himself and his team on developing a model for bringing ThePlaceFinder - which connects college students with area landlords for housing rentals, at no cost to either - to campuses across the nation.从这次灾难中度过了全面翻修业务,并已集中在他自己和他的团队对发展中国家的典范,使theplacefinder -连接大学生与房东面积为房屋租金,没有花费要么-校园遍及全国。 Bert later donned his bright red company t-shirt and was very proud of his turnaround and his business.度过后来披上他的鲜红公司上衣,并且非常自豪,转身和他的生意。
Closing out the presentations was Ilia Nossov, a past winner of the “Growing up CEO” award and owner of闭幕出专题介绍髂骨nossov ,过去得主的"成长的总裁奖"及所有者 Collegeffect.com collegeffect.com , which is a marketing company focused on tapping the college student base. ,这是一个营销公司,侧重于挖掘大学生基地。 Ilia shared his background in student marketing, which includes marketing events, nightclubs, and more.髂骨分享他的背景,在学生市场推广,其中包括市场营销活动,夜总会和更多。
The seven judges deliberated and scored the student entrepreneurs, and in usual GSEA fashion the scoring was tight.七名法官进行商议,并取得了学生的企业家,而在通常的gsea时装得分非常紧张。 Returning to the GSEA Global Finals with his second consecutive GSEA Regional victory was Bert Gervais of ThePlaceFinder.com and Binghamton University.返回到gsea全球总决赛,与他连续第二年gsea区域胜利的bert gervais的theplacefinder.com和宾厄姆顿大学。 Joining Bert at the Global Finals will be Boris Soldo, CEO of Solmac.度过加入,在全球总决赛将鲍里斯索尔多,总裁兼首席执行官solmac 。

First Place: Bert Gervais - ThePlaceFinder.com - Binghamton University 第一个地点:度过gervais -t heplacefinder.com-宾厄姆顿大学
Second Place: Boris Soldo - Solmac, Inc. - Buffalo College 第二位:鲍里斯索尔多-s olmac公司-布法罗学院
Third Place: Ilia Nossov - Collegeffect.com - University at Buffalo 第三位:髂骨nossov -c ollegeffect.com-大学布法罗
And next up, Philadelphia and New Jersey!明年,费城和新泽西州的!

















