![]() ![]() Nicholas is trying to be the next Findley-and pocket a $25,000 first prize. ![]() On this gray day in May, UW student Jonathan P. Since that time, Findley has built their contest entry, Cybercamps, into a multimillion-dollar business. Findley and his former partner and classmate, Alexa Ingram-Cauchi, won the University’s first Business Plan Competition last year. They are pitching business plans-everything from a drive-up video store to a funeral parlor co-op-to people who could help any one of them become the next Bill Gates … or at least the next Pete Findley.įindley, ’98, may never match the Microsoft mogul’s billions, but this University of Washington graduate already has a place in history. Inside, 35 teams of business students from four universities are striving to make a splash. Finally, as if rounding a bend and finding a waterfall, you enter the HUB’s West Ballroom and the noise becomes a torrent-raw capitalism at full churn. At the doorway, they grow to a dull roar. Photo by Mary Levin.įrom the stairwell, the voices sound like a distant river. A student promotes his e-commerce site,, during the competition.
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