BigSuccess Business Pitch Contest - Round One March 26, 2009

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Who are our judges?

Kevin Hartz - CEO of Eventbrite & Limited Partner of Sequoia Capital
Kevin was previously Co-Founder and CEO of Xoom Corporation, an
international money transfer company providing services to over 30
countries worldwide. Xoom is backed by Sequoia Capital, NEA, Fidelity
Ventures, Stanford University, and Peter Thiel.

Kevin began his career as a product manager at Silicon Graphics
(SGI) and later co-founded ConnectGroup, a start-up providing
high-speed Internet access to the hotel industry. ConnectGroup was
acquired by Lodgenet (NASDAQ: LNET) in 1998. Kevin then joined Outlook
Ventures, a venture capital firm focusing on seed and early stage
technology companies.

Amy Errett - Partner of Maveron, Former CEO of Olivia.com Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006
Amy J. Errett brings more than 25 years of experience as a leading
edge entrepreneur, senior executive and social mission visionary. Her
domain has been varied throughout her career from the online Web 2.0
media industry, to the off-line consumer marketplace, and even to
volunteer, non-profit leadership.
Most recently, Errett spent five years as CEO and partial owner of
Olivia repositioning the company as a lifestyle destination for
lesbians while multiplying revenues from $6 million to an expected $25
million this year. Olivia's reach, including all touch points, and is an estimated 2.5
million women across the globe, making it the primary hub for the
lesbian community.
In 2006, Errett, along with Olivia's founder was chosen as the Ernst
& Young Entrepreneur of the Year for Northern California. Olivia
also won a WEBBIE award from the SF Chamber of Commerce as the leading
growth business of the Year. That same year, and for the second
consecutive rating period, Olivia received a 100% from the Human Rights
Campaign's Corporate Equality Index, as well as inclusion in the annual
list of the best companies to work for in America.
Prior to joining Olivia in 2002, Errett founded and served as chair
and CEO of The Spectrem Group, a worldwide strategic consulting,
information and M&A advisory firm. She sold Spectrem to an IPG
subsidiary, NFO Worldwide (NYSE: NFOW) in 1996. After the sale, Errett
joined E*Trade as a member of the senior management team where she
diversified the company's business beyond brokerage by leading E*Trade
into growth areas , managing their business to business stock option
division and launched a successful asset-based products and investment
management services division.

Mark O'leary- Regional Vice President of Comcast Business Class

Over the last 24 years, Mark has held various executive positions in
the telecommunications, cable, software and networking industries.
Marks career includes VP/GM roles in Fortune 500 companies and as CEO
of venture-backed start-ups in the technology sector. In these roles,
he has had a track record of successfully scaling companies and
business units in high growth environments.
Mark is currently the Regional Vice President for Business Services
for Comcast in Central California. In this capacity, Mark is
responsible for building a B2B organization that will provide data,
telecommunications and video products to the commercial market.
Prior to joining Comcast, Mark was Founder of Phi Performance
Systems, a consulting firm that worked with technology companies in
aligning overall execution with corporate strategy. Mark was also CEO
of HCORP, a health care applications company that provided in-hospital
patient and clinical applications via a broadband content network.
After establishing early market leadership in their segment, Mark sold
HCORP in 2002.
Prior to HCORP, Mark served as CEO of Euclid Inc. where he and his
team in the US and India brought to market a suite of IT Operational
Support System (OSS) software and services to provide large commercial
IT departments visibility into their service delivery quality and true
cost of IT resources by product, LOB or customer.
Mark also served as the Executive Vice President of Broadband
Services at Excite@Home responsible for the $450 Million @Home and
@Work business units. Marks responsibilities included, P&L,
Operations, Sales and Marketing, Product Development and overall
Service Delivery of consumer and commercial Internet products. In this
capacity, Mark and his team scaled the Excite@Homes consumer broadband
Internet base from 1.8 to 3.6 Million subscribers, resulting in the
largest broadband Internet network in existence.
Mark spent 19 years with AT&T in various executive and
management positions including Vice President of Managed Network
Services, Director of Global Technical Marketing and GM of National
Accounts. In these capacities Mark was one of the principals of the
transformational management of AT&T Business Services that led to
its market leadership in the data services industry.

Former Google Angel InvestorMighty VenturesBill Gates calls her super high bandwidth. Bill Clinton has thanked her for fostering American entrepreneurship. Newsweek says by reputation, Christine is the person you want to partner with.New York Times bestselling author Christine Comaford is CEO of Mighty Ventures, a business accelerator which helps businesses to massively increase sales, product offerings, and company value. She has built and sold 5 of her own businesses with an average 700% return on investment, served as a board director or in-the-trenches advisor to 36 startups, and has invested in over 200 startups (including Google) as a venture capitalist or angel investor. Christine has consulted to the White House (Clinton and Bush), 700 of the Fortune 1000, and over 300 small businesses. She has repeatedly identified and championed key trends and technologies years before market acceptance.Christine has led many lives: Buddhist monk, Microsoft engineer, geisha trainee, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. Her triumphs and disasters are revealed in her New York Times (and USA Today, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, and Amazon.com ) bestselling business book: Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality. The book is available at all major retailers or via www.RulesForRenegades.com.Christine has appeared on Good Morning America, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX Business Network, PBS, CNET and is frequently quoted in the business, technology and general press at large. Stanford Graduate School of Business has done two case studies on her and PBS has featured her in three specials (Triumph of the Nerds, Nerds 2.0.1, and Nerd TV ). CNET has broadcast two specials covering her unconventional rise to success as a woman with neither a high school diploma nor college degree. Christine believes we can do well and do good, using business as a path for personal development, wealth creation, and philanthropy.

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