Brad Treat is on the Board of Directors of Mezmeriz. He was most recently the Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Cornell University. Brad is also the co-founder and former CEO of SightSpeed, an innovative video and voice communications company. Together with co-founders Aron Rosenberg and Cornell University Professor Toby Berger, Treat grew SightSpeed from a university research project at Cornell into the world's premier video calling software. SightSpeed was acquired by Logitech for $30MM.
Earlier in his career, Treat worked for eight years in the automotive industry at Bowles Fluidics and GKN Automotive, where he was responsible for engineering, operations, and personnel management within the high precision, high volume industrial units.
Brad Treat holds a degree in mechanical engineering from North Carolina State University and an MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell Univesity.
So what I actually wanted to speak about is why I think people should do business plan competitions even in light of the fact as Rogers said they got 100 submissions last year, and you would go gosh, that seems like some stiff competition. So let's assume you don't win and most of these ones I list...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Roger Williams Discusses Screening Process for Business Plan Competitions and Importance of Strong Executive Summary
Bruce Ganem Discusses Moot Corp Business Plan Competition at University of Texas in Austin
Bruce Ganem States Importance of Preparing For Questions That Can Be Asked By Expert Panel
Pat Govang Discusses Personal Experience In Business Plan Competitions and Reality That Contests Will Help Your Pitch
Brad Treat States Importance of Being Accurate In Business Plan Competition And Not Misrepresenting Information
Bruce Ganem States Importance of Knowing How To Pitch Your Own Business and Not Worrying About Competition
Roger Williams States Importance of Understanding Submission Criteria In Business Plan Competitions
