\u201cI plan to capture the market in South Carolina entirely,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
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Brooke Dominiak ’23.<\/p><\/div>\n
Dominiak\u2019s company would deliver strictly on-campus food and charge a flat $4 delivery fee.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, there\u2019s a similar company called Grubify<\/a> located in New York, and that is great,\u201d\u00a0said the education and communication studies double major from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, \u201cbecause it shows that this is successful, and we have the potential to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n Dominiak did a test run of the company on her residence hall of 30 students, dinner only, and averaged just three orders per day. At that rate, yearly revenue would be $3,000, a tiny wisp of what it would be if she scaled it up to all three meals and went campus-wide.<\/p>\n Her goal is to go nation-wide.<\/p>\n As Dominiak explained it: With To-Go Bro\u2019s, parents are happy because the meal plans they\u2019ve purchased are not going to waste. The university benefits by having students purchase more food through their meal plans. And students are able to make money by working for To-Go Bro\u2019s, delivering food to their peers on a flexible schedule.<\/p>\n \u201cHelp me to help students to stop skipping meals and stop wasting money,\u201d said Dominiak.<\/p>\n After her presentation, she and the other competitors fielded questions from the event mediators, Harold Hughes and Nadia Kanagawa. Hughes is founder and CEO of Bandwagon, a Greenville-based identity infrastructure company that helps its customers manage, aggregate and store valuable consumer identity data. Kanagawa is an assistant professor of history and Asian studies at Furman who spent three years at Google Tokyo.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Paladin Pitch kicking off Furman Engaged is an outstanding example of The Furman Advantage,\u201d said Anthony Herrera, executive director of Furman Innovation and Entrepreneurship<\/a>. \u201cStudents are provided the resources and platform to take a venture from idea to execution through mentoring, coaching and funding. Ultimately, our community benefits from these world-changing leaders and ideas from our students and alumni.\u201d<\/p>\n Monday\u2019s competitors also included:<\/p>\n David Kaszycki \u201912<\/strong>, a business administration major from Winston-Salem, North Carolina<\/p>\n His venture \u00a0\u2013\u00a0\u00a0Beam Dynamics<\/a>\u00a0\u201cBeam Dynamics is changing the way that film and broadcast equipment is owned and managed. Our intelligent platform analyzes lifecycle data to reduce downtime, increase asset lifetime, and predict critical issues before they happen on set.\u201d He came in second and was awarded $5,000.<\/p>\n Christian Taylor\u00a0\u201921<\/strong>, a business administration major from Greenville, South Carolina<\/p>\n Her venture \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Project Conduit: A music studio that revolves around teaching independent artists how to market, promote and manage themselves. Taylor placed third and was awarded a combination of up to $2,500 in seed grant and resources \u2013 coaching\/mentoring, scholarship to the Summer Business and Innovation Boot Camp, co-working space on campus and off-campus downtown Greenville.<\/p>\n Spencer Tate \u201924<\/strong>, from\u00a0Annapolis, Maryland<\/p>\n His venture \u2013\u00a0University Trash and Dash: a valet trash service for college campuses that focuses on sustainability and giving back.<\/p>\n Eli Titherington \u201922<\/strong>, a public health major from Weddington, North Carolina<\/p>\n His venture \u2013\u00a0\u00a0Relax Rx: a community based app that provides resources and a platform for mindfulness and wellness.<\/p>\n The fourth and fifth-place winners and the Sleep While You\u2019re Dead strategic design winners each received $500 and scholarship to attend the Summer Business and Innovation Boot Camp, co-working space on campus and off-campus downtown Greenville to launch. The funding comes from the Association Members for Furman\u2019s Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and 100% of their donations are devoted to student programming in the institute, which is self-funded. To donate or to learn more about the winners, contact anthony.herrera@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A student\u2019s dilemma: She\u2019s hungry. A pizza sounds good, heaped with toppings and brought right to the door. 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