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Six teams heading for business-plan final

February 17, 2012

Soft biscotti, sports apparel, a customer-service app called Grumbul, and other new business ideas were pitched by 10 student teams in the first round of the $10,000 Freirich Business Plan Competition sponsored by Ken Freirich '90. Alumni judges narrowed the field to six, whom they will mentor as they fine-tune their business plans for the April finals. Meet the players in this brief video.

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