Monthly Archives: May 2012

UCSB’s Bren School Incubated Birdeez, Covers our NVC Win!

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BrenSchoolLogoI attended UCSB’s Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, where I first developed the idea for Birdeez. When I met my two awesome technical co-founders, Patrick and Thomas, we had a team that could make this idea reality.

The Bren School recently featured our win at the UCSB Technology Management Program’s New Venture Competition!

A team of would-be eco-entrepreneurs, including third-year Bren School master’s student Jeffrey Simeon, received the first-place, $5,000 prize in the  market-oriented category of the competition, for his smart-phone application called “Birdeez.”

Read their perspective and about another great Bren Project on the Bren School website.

Birdeez Takes First Place – Daily Nexus

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DailyNexusLogoWe were interviewed by the UCSB Student paper after our win at the New Venture Competition. They have great coverage of the event.

Teams faced extensive questioning following their presentations as judges proposed major points of concern, such as the questionable amount of market demand faced by Birdeez.

When the bird watching-enthusiast company received their first place prize of $5,000, TMP Program Manager Mike Panesis said the team was most impressive for its ability to overcome some of the greatest doubt facing competitors.

Read the rest of the great NVC coverage at the Daily Nexus.

Birdeez Wins Market Category – Pacific Coast Business Times

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PacficCoastBusinessTimesLogoWow! We did it! Amazing to think won against such a great field of competitors! We’re thrilled, and happy for the coverage in Pacific Coast Business Times.

In the marketing-oriented category, the $5,000 top winner was Birdeez, a smart phone application that helps bird watchers locate and identify birds then log and share their findings. While the idea sounds fanciful as a business, the judges and audience were persuaded…

“At first we though, Birds? What?” said Mike Panesis, one of the event’s organizers. “But this team impressed us every step of the way, with both their technology and their business.”

Read the rest and about the other winners at PacBizTimes.com.