Latin Moot Corp

2011 Latin Moot Corp – Photos of the Competition

Rene José Rodrigues Fernandes — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 05:51:29 +0000

Remarks from 2010

Rene José Rodrigues Fernandes — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:05:27 +0000

2010 Results

Winner: SayYou U.S. – Insper

Ary Scapin (Sebrae-SP), with the winning team SayYou.

1st Runner Up: WiFli – University of Otago

Augusto Camargo with the 1st Runner Up team Wifli.

2nd Runner Up: Terminal Logística – IAE

Rene Fernandes and Luigi Giavina with the 2nd Runner Up team Terminal Logística.

Division I Winners

Best Written Business Plan: Terminal Logística – IAE

Outstanding Presentation: Terminal Logística – IAE

Division II Winners

Best Written Business Plan: SayYou U.S. – Insper

Outstanding Presentation: WiFli – University of Otago

2010 Participating Ventures

Start Music – UNIFACS

WIFLI – University of Otago

Terminal Logística – IEA

Sayyou U.S. – INSPER

Nanoita – UNESP/UEPG

Redu – UFPE

Analytics – FGV

2011 Participating Ventures

Rene José Rodrigues Fernandes — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:17:45 +0000

School: Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management – India

Team Name: ONEGARIOUS, Wi-Kruti

One Line Pitch: World of Offers in the Air.

Business Summary: We plan to develop a Wi-Fi- based advertisement agency. The peers would be provided free high speed internet facility, and services would be similar to a radio station broadcasting it feed, receivable by any Wi-Fi enabled device. It provides us the opportunity to display video/text advertisements and receive feedback from peers. Profit from peers will also be generated with help of online advertisement agencies like Google Adsense, YPN, etc.

School: Harvard/Wharton – USA

Team Name: Brazil Baby Care E-Commerce

One Line Pitch: Baby.com.br is Brazil’s one-stop-shop for baby products online, offering the deepest selection, the lowest prices online and free 24 hr delivery.

Business Summary: Baby.com.br will provide the largest selection online of baby products in Brazil, with a major emphasis in customer service and fast/free delivery. Our company will supply all needed baby products that parents need including diapers, wipes, formula, car seats, infant toys and clothing with a low- price strategy.

School: University of Manitoba – Canada

Team Name: CAIR Technologies Inc.

One Line Pitch: CaIR Technologies Inc. is a diagnostic medical device company set to revolutionize cholesterol testing at the point of care using IR spectroscopy.

Business Summary: The heart of our business is cardiovascular disease risk management. Currently, there are 250 million cholesterol tests performed annually in the US. The CardioMeasuIR provides a complete lipid profile in less than 5 minutes from only a drop of blood. Our device promises to have a disruptive effect on the cholesterol diagnostic industry and is a viable alternative to the current gold standard of reagent chemicals.

School: IAE – Argentina

Team Name: Almacenes Plásticos

One Line Pitch: Our goal is to reach u$s100Mio in 10 years with a new innovative solution in the agribusiness in the grain storage business in Argentina.

Business Summary: Our business is based in the production and marketing of an innovative product for grain storage.

School: Insper – Brazil

Team Name: Junta Mais

One Line Pitch: JuntaMais is Web-based task-oriented advertising platform that leverages the concept of affiliate programs to help companies improve performance.

Business Summary: JuntaMais will establish partnerships with small and medium businesses. The agreements with these partners will result in tasks that will be presented to JuntaMais Web users after they perform a search for a wish. Tasks (ex: buy this offer, refer a friend, promote this brand) are jointly defined by JuntaMais and its partners to help them meet business goals. As users execute tasks, they gain points, which can be used to purchase their whishes.

School: FGV – Brazil

Team Name: Ippon

One Line Pitch: A hotel that has a low occupation tax may have a loss or cease to monetize your rooms. Ippon offers last minute sales ads to this kind of business.

Business Summary: Ippon thinks about the risk of a service company. It have only until the moment that the service will occurs to sell it and monetize your business. These business usually have a low marginal cost and a high fixed cost. So, Ippon offers a last-minute advertisement of the services. Ippon does that in order to increase the occupancy rate of the business, increasing profitability by reducing their risks and minimize losses.

School: UFMG/FGV – Brazil

Team Name: Janus

One Line Pitch: Nanotechnology applied to the petroleum industry.

Business Summary: Janus is a nanoengineering technology company that develops magnetic nanostructures products for various applications, mainly in the efficient separation of water and oil. These processes have applications in several industrial sectors such as oil, biodiesel, oils, wastewater treatment, among others.

School: UVA – Brazil

Team Name: Fumajet

One Line Pitch: MOTOFOG is an innovative system in the fight and prevention of urban area diseases (Malaria, Dengue), and pest control in agricultural areas.

Business Summary: FUMAJET is a company which aims to offer the society technological solutions by developing and commercializing innovative products and services. Incubated at the University Veiga de Almeida, the company currently holds 8 patent applications in Brazil. MOTOFOG, our main product, is a great utility equipment that facilitates the activities of vector control in urban areas (eg. malaria and dengue) and in agricultural areas.

School: Queens University – Canada

Team Name: Green LAB

One Line Pitch: A smartphone based software enabling users to effectively determine the most cost effective ways to reduce energy consumption in their homes.

Business Summary: Renologic puts the capabilities of traditional, professionally administered home energy audits in the hands of the average homeowner by utilizing to the fullest, features of modern smart phones. Our freeware software will effectively market energy efficient products and services to individuals. By targeting the low hanging fruit of energy efficiency, we believe this represents the best environmental impact per dollar of any strategy on the market.

School: Universidade de Pernambuco (UPE) – Brazil

Team Name: Big Fall

One Line Pitch: Big Fall will be a social utility that will connects entrepreneurs that have problems for a exchange of knowledge and recovery of these entrepreneurs.

Business Summary: The objective of our company is to help other entrepreneurs to come out of crisis.

School: University College London – England

Team Name: BarGain

One Line Pitch: BarGain helps retailers extend merchandising to their potential customers by taking advantage of social networks and mobile advertising.

Business Summary: BarGain enables inshop consumers to share a particular promotion from a store or a restaurant menu with their friends. The sharing experience involves using a mobile phone to scan the product’s QR barcode to generate promotional offers, which can then be posted on Facebook or sent via email to friends. Consequently, both the inshop customer and their friends can receive the discount, while retailers can increase footfall.

School: Uniandes – Colombia

Team Name: TECH4RIDERS S.A.S.

One Line Pitch: The only one solution in LAmerica for reduce high motorcicle riders deaths and accidents Brasil 13000/year; 1,5 per hour – Colombia: 2250/Y; 6 per day.

Business Summary: Our business systematically addresses with a global approach, the problem of accident rate motorcyclists to develop, validate and commercialize high value added products to reduce the high rates current morbidity and mortality in traffic accidents, by development and ownership of advanced technologies for manufacturing and marketing safety devices according to the rules and international standards. We have the patent for airbag jackets.

School: UNIFACS – Brazil

Team Name: Vitae, Accessibility Solutions

One Line Pitch: The mission of Vitae is restore quality of life to the patient.

Business Summary: Vitae is a company which will focus on medical products, and the product who is launching Vitae on the market it’s the Motus, a kind of dynamic splint capable of correcting the gait of a disabled person, and gradually return to her movements lost by trauma or disease, using concepts of functional electro stimulation.

Logistics – 2011 Latin Moot Corp

Rene José Rodrigues Fernandes — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:07:01 +0000

Faculty Advisers and team members,

We are looking forward to seeing you in Sao Paolo for the 2011 Latin Moot Corp Investment Competition on February 24^th – 26^th.

Thank you for submitting your executive summary and confirming your participation. Below are few reminders of upcoming deadlines and logistics.

Transportation and Hotel Information

Important – You are responsible for arranging your travel to Sao Paolo and the hotel. We have reserved a block of rooms for Latin Moot Corp at Hotel Blue Tree Towers Paulista. The negotiated fare for a single room is R$ 226,00 (~ US$ 133,00) per day and the fare for a double room is R$ 270,00 (~ US$ 159,00) per day. You should mention Latin Moot Corp in order to use this special fare. The reservations can be done by Phone +55 11 3147 7000, Fax +55 11 3147 7001 or email reservas.paulista@bluetree.com.br.

Presentation Equipment Needs

There will be a computer projector in each presentation room but students will need to bring their own laptop. If you need sound or any special media equipment for your presentation during the Competition, contact me immediately so we can make arrangements before you arrive.

WiFi Access on FGV Campus

There is free wireless service available. Ask for the password.

Schedule

The complete schedule for the competition can be found at www.latinmootcorp.org/news.

Twitter

We will use the hashtag #mootcorp during the competition.

Reminder for upcoming deadlines:

February, 11th, 2011. Business Plan Submission: Upload the Business Plan at http://angelsoft.net/business-plan-competition/latinmootcorp.

2011 Schedule

Rene José Rodrigues Fernandes — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 20:42:33 +0000

2011 Latin Moot Corp – Final Schedule

2011 Schedule

2010 Latin Moot Corp – Photos of the Competition

Rene José Rodrigues Fernandes — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:16:55 +0000

2009 Results – For Records

Rene José Rodrigues Fernandes — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:48:59 +0000

2009 Results

Winner: Nalion – Univ. of Waterloo

: Rene Fernandes, competition director, and Ana Maria Martins, Sebrae SP, with the winning team Nalion

1st Runner Up: Monicana – Unicamp

: Professor Maria José Tonelli with Monicana team.

Division I

Best Written Business Plan: Wisdow – Ibmec SP

Outstanding Presentation: Pulse – Uniandes

Division II

Best Written Business Plan: Nalion – Univ. Waterloo

Outstanding Presentation: Nalion – Univ. Waterloo

Division III

Best Written Business Plan: Taurus – IAE

Outstanding Presentation: Monicana – Unicamp

Final Schedule

Rene José Rodrigues Fernandes — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:05:56 +0000

Please note that a updated schedule is available!

Final Schedule 2010

2010 Finalists One Line Pitch

Rene José Rodrigues Fernandes — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:24:25 +0000

Redu

One Line Pitch: Redu is a social network aimed at education. The network environment allows students and educators to expand the classroom relationship.

Analytics

One Line Pitch: Consultancy on Business Analytics

Nanoita

One Line Pitch: Nanoita has a new and patented technology to deposit nano-oxides in any kind of hard surface, being able to create a diversified product line, ranging from anti-bacteria coating to rain shields.

WIFLI

One Line Pitch: Wifli aims to provide wireless internet that is faster and more reliable to university students in Australia and New Zealand for free.

Sayyou U.S.

One Line Pitch: Herbicides were an necessary evil. Not anymore. Eletroherb is a cheaper health and environmentally friendly alternative.

Start Music

One Line Pitch: The SM is an opportunity for composers to promote their art, and musicians as partners to create arrangements of letters presented.

ARC Technology

One Line Pitch: ARC Tech is the company patenting a piece of paving equipment capable of combining the 3 pieces of equipment currently being used for resurfacing.

Terminal Logistica

One Line Pitch: This investement project is a consequence of a lack of logistics services and we enhanced this opportinity by making our clients partners.

Updated Schedule and Judges Information

Rene José Rodrigues Fernandes — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:33:45 +0000

The updated schedule is already available: Schedule_2010.

The information about the judges in each division can be found at Judges_Divisions.