2009 Darden Entrepreneurial Concept Competition
77 startups | Sort alphabetically
-
Viet-Kieu Nation
Viet-Kieu Nation: An online marketplace for virtually-delivered professional services from the diaspora to emerging market nations.
-
UnRisk Solutions, LLC
We UnRisk your business, to allow you to focus on the things that matter....
-
KaioTeas.com
Kaio Teas is committed to become the leading specialty online retailer of herbal, organic and specialized teas and honey.
-
Mangobus
Mangobus is a low cost, direct bus service running between Charlottesville, VA and the Washington, DC area.
-
The Flying Cupcake
A new cupcake experience!
-
YouNoodle
YouNoodle is a place to discover and support the hottest early-stage companies and university innovation.
-
3P Fund
Three Phase Venture Fund
-
Advaitam
Advaitam [əd̪vait̪əm] aims to set up schools that would provide affordable English medium education to primary school students in small villages of south India. Advaitam would be run as a non-profit organization
-
AuditFinder.com
Auditfinder.com is a website that connects buyers and sellers of financial services, enabling buyers to receive free, no obligation bids for service contracts, while allowing sellers to compete for more business with reduced time spent marketing.
-
Battlehard: A.I. Wars
Battlehard: A.I. Wars is a massively multiplayer strategy game designed to teach the basics of programming by having players' artificial intelligence programs compete with one another for world domination.
-
Bia-Teuk Renewables, Ltd.
Providing rural Cambodians with power and clean water by converting rice husks into electricity and utilizing the ashes to filter the local water supply.
-
Buy Time, Inc.
Buy Time sells derivatives to retail consumers.
-
CallAMaid
A professionally trained maid service that is focused on quality, reliability and standardized pricing.
-
CardZilla, Inc
CardZilla, Inc. aims to provide a web-based portal for consumers to manage and purchase gift card dollars. CardZilla will allow consumers to move their gift card dollars from individual retailer gift cards to one CardZilla Card.
-
Carlo Woods
Carlos Woods is a Charlottesville based maker of superior grapeseed oil.
-
Charlottesville Barter Network
The Charlottesville Barter Network is a web-based barter system that allows business to exchange their goods and services for those of other businesses, in lieu of actual cash.
-
Choma Jerky
Jerky for East Africa
-
Clean O2
Clean O2 sells apparel with a unique and innovative marketing characteristic to socially and environmentally conscious consumers who are looking to support charities that champion a clean and sustainable planet.
-
Community Monitoring Systems, Inc.
Community Monitoring System, Inc. (CMS) will be the first 3rd party monitoring company to focus primarily on improving service and reducing liability exposure with respect to nurse call systems used in the senior housing industry.
-
Cullop Education Ventures
Cullop Education Ventures takes the stress out of applying to college.
-
cupcake bar
A place for people to indulge in customizable sweet treats.
-
Darden Golf Maniac
Happy life with 365 day golf and social event.
-
Dream-On
Pursue your passions; Build your dream career
-
EZSchoolShopping.com
EZSchoolShopping.com enables busy families to organize, track and complete Back-to-School shopping; we will capitalize on social networks centered on local schools to drive traffic and interest in our concept
-
FRESH logic
Our concept, FRESH logic, is a healthy, fast, sustainable and competitively priced alternative to current fast food options that will encompass the convenience, speed and price of traditional fast food restaurants with superior nutritional content.
-
Giorgio Brusa
Gogreen is a business idea that aims to transform today paper based bill of sales, created when a customer buys or consumes a product or service from a shop, to an 100% paperless systems.
-
greenadvisor.com
One stop "green" web resource for the masses linking consumers, products, services, government, and financing.
-
GRUV Media
A platform for music distribution and monetization. A record label for the 21st century.
-
HopeCooks!
In an effort to fight the underlying causes of homelessness in Charlottesville, HopeCooks! Catering trains and employs the homeless to prepare and serve great food in order to gain job experience and raise money for the homeless shelter.
-
Instant PixShare
Instant PixShare allows you to instantly share your most memorable photos by zapping them via laser from one digital camera to another.
-
IntelliCart
Business plan for Darden business plan competition
-
International Development Technologies
International Development Technologies (IDT) will fabricate a simple, inexpensive device to collect weather data in developing nations, enabling them to better mitigate and manage the impacts of weather and climate variability.
-
Interventional & Surgical Concepts
Novel medical device to improve the treatment of atrial fibrillation.
-
K-PHAC (Kent Postpartum Hemorrhage Atony Clamp)
The Kent clamp will improve treatment for uterine atony during cesarean sections and help save lives.
-
LendStreet
LendStreet facilitates consumer debt restructuring.
-
Life Without Paper
Electronic receipt system that improves transaction experience for both retailers and consumers.
-
MD-MBA Experts LLC
Unique, highly vetted, premiere group of physicians and business operators providing research, analysis, and expert opinion to a wide range of healthcare focused clients.
-
MedReminder
MedReminder is an automated medication reminder system, with reminders given to patients via a combination of landline phone call, cellular phone call, text message and/or email.
-
MedReminder
MedReminder is an automated medication reminder system, with reminders given to patients via a combination of landline phone call, cellular phone call, text message and/or email.
-
MedReminder
MedReminder is an automated medication reminder system, with reminders given to patients via a combination of landline phone call, cellular phone call, text message and/or email.
-
Mental Reps Data Mine
Using vast amounts of data for better game preparation, opponent evaluation, and contract negotiation
-
Mobile Roots
The Voice Business Suite (VBS) is a mobile application that allows users to increase productivity by empowering their mobile devices with a combination of voice commands, text to speech and speech to text.
-
Moto-Link
Moto-Link’s value proposition lies in the ignition interlock system which not only requires motorcyclists to wear a properly fitted helmet to operate their motorbike, but also monitors use of the system through independent certified mechanics .
-
Mpesa
E-commerce technology for emerging markets.
-
MR-Compatible Ergometers
MR-Compatible Ergometers makes affordable ergometers that can be used in a clinical setting to diagnose and treat diseases using a non-invasive approach.
-
Nano-Protection
Are you Nano-protected?
-
Nomuda Games
Nomuda Games: Waste not! Play your favorite game on your mobile phone and at home.
-
Ocean Lenders
Innovative lender/logistics provider to small market, US firms engaged in importing.
-
PattonsList.com
PattonsList.com is a free online classified and social networking website serving the United States military servicemen/women and families of the active duty, reserve and contractor communities.
-
Phone apps
make the life easier :)