Nuts for Business: 11-month MBA Grad Wins Bard Center Entrepreneurship Award

If every business owner had the same drive for social responsibility as Olomomo Nut Company founder Justin Perkins, the world would be a better place. A native of Boulder, Perkins started his business in an effort to provide a healthy alternative to snacks currently found in places like coffee shops.  Read more

First Place: OLOMOMO NUT COMPANY Justin Perkins, Peter Genuardi

Olomomo Nut Company aspires to be the foremost high-end, all natural and organic nut brand with its kettle-roasted nuts, coated with original and unexpected exotic spices and flavor blends. Olomomo will initially distribute through specialty coffee shops across America to conscious consumers who crave quality, delicious, high-protein, socially responsible products.  Read more

1st Place: DEVELOPING MINDS SOFTWARE, Dawn & Mason Gregg, Michael Erskine, Colette Hanley, Lynn Sargent

Developing Minds Software offers unique web-based software services designed to address the needs of families and educational institutions challenged with serving the developmentally disabled. Their product, DDtrac, is a Web 2.0 application that allows for the efficient capture and analysis of special education data.  Read more

First Place: Apex Design, Nate Algoe, Jason Osaki, & Scott Thomas

Apex Design, PC is a transportation engineering consulting firm. The firm provides services to the Intelligent Transportation Systems market. Their customers include public sector transportation agencies, private industry developers and other consulting firms.

Second Place: Dizgo, Jeffrey Kohn, Tomas Kaplan, Jeff Cahoon

Dizgo provides a novel form of mobile-based advertising for brick and mortar retailers.  Read more

First Place: Tensegrity Prosthetics, Jerome Rifkin

Tensegrity Prosthetics, Inc. has created the first major technological advancement for prosthetic feet in the past 25 years. The company will initially manufacture the product while it builds a distribution network through prosthetists and distributors. Tensegrity has created a working prototype of its first product, called “The Liberator,” which incorporates information that details the complex workings of the human foot.  Read more

First Place and Best Nonprofit Award: Journey of Life Meetinghouse
Team Leader: Tiffany Espinosa

Journey of Life Meetinghouse (JLM) is a nonprofit enrichment, activity and care center for seniors who would like to be involved in a safe, supportive community. The JLM works with clients who are functionally healthy and who either live on their own or with family members by providing daily transportation to the facility for full-service clinic needs, educational seminars, social activities, meals, and more.  Read more

First Place: MetroBoom. Jung Park

MetroBoom is a full-service premier style salon exclusively for men. It will provide a wide range of hair care, fashion, grooming services and products for men looking for the latest trends in fashion.

Second Place and Best Bioscience Award: Sterisil, Craig Hofmeister

Sterisil provides water purification systems to the dental industry.  Read more