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Citi Salutes is excited to launch its second Realizing Your Dream Business Competition. In collaboration with two of the IVMF’s portfolio of veteran and military family entrepreneurship training programs, V-WISE and Boots to Business, which are funded in part through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), Citi Salutes is setting out on a national search for the next generation of veteran entrepreneurs! Finalists from each program will present their business plans to an expert panel of judges at the grand final event to be held in 2015. A dozen winners will take home a total of $130,000 in prizes funded by the Citi Foundation, including special honors for Best Social Venture, Best Technology Venture and an Impacting Veterans Prize.
2015 Business Plan Competition Winners
V-WISE:
First Place: $25,000
Angela Cody-Rouget, Major Mom
Second Place: $15,000
Leah Olszewski, FEMTAC
Third Place: $10,000
Michelle Fryc, Leadership, Learning and Excellence (L2E)
Best Social Venture: $5,000
Beverly Grandinson, Premier Health + Wellness Consulting, LLC
Most Innovative Venture: $5,000
Leah Olszewski, FEMTAC
Best Venture Impacting Vets: $5,000
Rosemary O’Brien, Pocket Parks Publishing
BOOTS TO BUSINESS:
First Place: $25,000
Timothy Page, Beltway Express AutoSpa
Second Place: $15,000
Robert Webb, BIODTECH LLC
Third Place: $10,000
Matthew Brady, Path2Hired.com—A Job Hunter’s Secret Weapon
Best Social Venture: $5,000
Timothy Page, Beltway Express AutoSpa
Most Innovative Venture: $5,000
Robert Webb, BIODTECH LLC
Best Venture Impacting Vets: $5,000
Meegan Mackay, Artes pro Vita Academy—skills for L.I.F.E.TM
2015 Competition Slideshow