- University News Archive - 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock /news-archive/tag/zach-cochran/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:51:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock student entrepreneurs win $40,000 at e-Fest /news-archive/2019/04/18/ua-little-rock-student-entrepreneurs-win-40000-at-e-fest/ Thu, 18 Apr 2019 13:51:29 +0000 /news/?p=74068 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock student entrepreneurs win $40,000 at e-Fest]]> After winning the undergraduate and innovation divisions at the Arkansas Governor鈥檚 Cup last week, a dream team of student entrepreneurs from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has continued their winning streak by taking home $40,000 at e-Fest 2019.听 Team Vascugenix earned third place and $20,000 April 11-13 at e-Fest 2019, a venture pitch competition that is part of the, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The students also placed first in the innovation division, earning them an additional $20,000. The main goal of this elite entrepreneurship event, open to undergraduate students in North America and with $250,000 in cash prizes available, includes recognizing compelling student ideas for products, services, and ventures but also aims to encourage student learning and networking around using entrepreneurial thinking and methods to create, validate, and communicate about solutions to problems. Vascugenix team members include 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students Noah Asher, senior finance and economics major and Donaghey Scholar; Abigail Resendiz, senior international business and management major and Donaghey Scholar; and Zach Cochran, senior economics major. Martial Trigeaud, a 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock adjunct professor and business consultant at the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center, serves as the team鈥檚 mentor. The group collaborated with, a 1993 graduate of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock, and Baptist Health Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit Nurse Anna Helm to commercialize a medical device invented by Chrisman. The device, the Speed-Torque鈩, is a medical torque device used by surgeons in minimally invasive heart surgery. A cardiovascular surgeon uses a torque to maneuver a surgical guidewire and catheter through a patient鈥檚 femoral artery to get to the heart. Currently, surgeons must use both hands to perform the procedure. However, Chrisman鈥檚 design is for a device that clicks into place and can be operated with only one hand, making surgery faster and safer. So far, Vascugenix has won more than $75,000 in prize money from business plan and entrepreneurial competitions. In January, Vascugenix won second place and $3,000 at the Ivey Business Plan Competition at Western University in Ontario, Canada.
Team Vascugenix earned third place and $20,000 April 11-13 at e-Fest 2019, a venture pitch competition that is part of the Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Team Vascugenix earned third place and $20,000 at e-Fest 2019, a venture pitch competition that is part of the Schulze Entrepreneurship Challenge.

During the first weekend in April, the students won $2,000 after being named a semifinalist at the prestigious Rice Business Plan Competition in Houston. Vascugenix was one of 42 teams from more than 400 applications accepted into the competition, dubbed the world鈥檚 richest and largest student startup competition. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock was the only university from Arkansas to make it into the competition, while Vascugenix is only the second team in 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 history to be accepted. At the Arkansas Governor鈥檚 Cup, the students won first place in the Winrock Automotive Undergraduate Division and a $25,000 prize as well as $5,000 and first听place in the undergraduate Innovate Arkansas Innovation Division for a total of听$30,000. Vascugenix is now in talks with investors to raise $1.4 million in investment capital to launch the Speed-Torque鈩, which they plan to manufacture and sell out of Little Rock. 鈥淲e鈥檒l look for the investors who fit the best with our company culture and vision for the future,鈥 said Asher. 鈥淲e want investors with the right networks of contacts who can help us succeed.鈥 In the upper right photo, a team of business students (Zach Cochran, bottom left,听Noah听Asher, center, and Abigail Resendiz, bottom right) from 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock have won third place at e-Fest 2019. The students collaborated with Arkansas Cardiology Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Dwight Christman, back left, Baptist Health Cardiovascular Nurse Anna Helm, center left, and Martial Tregeaud, back right, to commercialize a medical device invented by Chrisman to help cardiologists perform heart surgery with greater safety and efficiency. Photo by Ben Krain.]]> 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock business students selected to participate in Rice Business Plan Competition /news-archive/2019/03/12/rice-business-plan-competition/ Tue, 12 Mar 2019 13:07:13 +0000 /news/?p=73687 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock business students selected to participate in Rice Business Plan Competition]]> A team of business students from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has been selected as one of 42 teams from some of the world鈥檚 top universities who will compete for more than $1.5 million in prizes at the April 4-6.听 The competition has been dubbed as the world鈥檚 richest and largest student startup competition with a top prize of a $300,000 investment from the GOOSE Society. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock was the only team from Arkansas selected to compete. The 鈥痴补蝉肠耻驳别苍颈虫鈥 team is comprised of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students Noah Asher, senior finance and economics major; Abigail Resendiz, senior international business and management major; and Zach Cochran, senior economics major. Martial Trigeaud, a 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock adjunct professor and business consultant at the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center, is mentoring the team. 鈥We are very excited to be competing in this prestigious new venture competition and to be recognized as one of the top startup teams in the world,鈥 Asher said. The group collaborated with and Baptist Health Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit Nurse Anna Helm to commercialize a medical device invented by Chrisman. The device, the 鈥淪peed-Torque,鈥 is a medical torque device used by surgeons in minimally invasive heart surgery, also known as interventional cardiology procedures. The teams for this year鈥檚 competition were chosen from more than 300 applicants to compete in four categories: life sciences/medical devices/digital health; digital/information technology/mobile; energy/clean technology/sustainability; and other innovations/investment opportunity. More than 210 former competitors have successfully launched their ventures and are still in business today, including 25 startups that have been acquired. Past competitors have raised more than $2.2 billion in capital and created more than 3,000 new jobs. 鈥淭he true measure of success for the Rice Business Plan Competition is the number of teams that launch, raise funding, and go on to succeed in their business,鈥 said Brad Burke, managing director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship at Rice University, host of the event. 鈥淭he competition has served as the launch pad for a great number of successful entrepreneurial ventures, and the success rate far exceeds the national average.鈥 Community members can show their support for the team by casting their vote in the People鈥檚 Choice Competition via Facebook. 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 team has already seen success promoting the speed-torque. They won second place and a $3,000 prize during the Ivey Business Plan Competition in January and will also enter the upcoming Arkansas Governor鈥檚 Cup competition. Asher was part of a team of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students who won the undergraduate division of the Arkansas Governor鈥檚 Cup and a $25,000 prize last year for their business plan for Spiritum Solutions, a mouth guard designed so that patients undergoing surgery or bronchoscope procedures do not damage their mouths by biting down on the tubes. Additionally, Asher received a $2,000 cash prize for winning the undergraduate elevator pitch competition. He believes that his previous experience, combined with the team鈥檚 compelling business strategy, gives them a unique advantage in both competitions and in the marketplace. 鈥淲hile we do have an exciting technology that will greatly benefit both surgeons and patients, we are not trying to change the way minimally invasive heart surgery is done or disrupt the marketplace,鈥 Asher said. 鈥淲e are instead focused on providing incremental, yet innovative changes that fit within existing surgical techniques, but also drastically improve surgical precision and safety. We believe that this strategy will help to drive our clinical adoption rate and to achieve long-term, sustainable growth that will generate substantial returns for investors. Our acceptance into Rice is a strong validation that investors see value in this strategy and that we are poised for success.鈥 In the upper right photo,听a team of business students (Zach Cochran, bottom left,听Noah听Asher, center, and Abigail Resendiz, bottom right) from 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock have been accepted into the Rice Business Plan Competition. The students collaborated with Arkansas Cardiology Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Dwight Christman, back left, Baptist Health Cardiovascular Nurse Anna Helm, center left, and Martial Tregeaud, back right, to commercialize a medical device invented by Chrisman to help cardiologists perform heart surgery with greater safety and efficiency. Photo by Ben Krain.]]> 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock business students take second place at international entrepreneurship competition /news-archive/2019/02/19/ivey-business-plan-winners/ Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:46:42 +0000 /news/?p=73449 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock business students take second place at international entrepreneurship competition]]> A team of business students from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock have won second place and a $3,000 prize at the international held Jan. 25-27 in Ontario, Canada, for their business plan for a device designed to help interventional cardiologists perform minimally invasive heart surgery with greater safety and efficiency.听 The team is comprised of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students Noah Asher, senior finance and economics major, Abigail Resendiz, senior international business and management major, and Zach Cochran, senior economics major. The group collaborated with听听and Baptist Health Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit Nurse Anna Helm to commercialize a medical device invented by Chrisman. The device, the 鈥淪peed-Torque,鈥 is a medical torque device used by surgeons in minimally invasive heart surgery, also known as interventional cardiology procedures. The Ivey Business Plan Competition, sponsored by CIBC World Markets and IBK Capital Corp, allows student teams from across North America to compete for $40,000 in prizes as well as test their venture ideas with experienced entrepreneurs, meet potential investors, and raise funds. 鈥淚t was an extremely close competition with a lot of fantastic companies and entrepreneurs,鈥 said Asher. 鈥淲e are of course disappointed with coming in second, but we are very happy with our performance and are excited to see how we do in competitions to come.鈥 Asher is no stranger to success in business and entrepreneurship competitions. He was part of a team of 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students who won the undergraduate division of the Arkansas Governor鈥檚 Cup and a $25,000 prize last year for their business plan for Spritum Solutions, a mouth guard designed so that patients undergoing surgery or bronchoscope procedures do not damage their mouths by biting down on the tubes. Additionally, Asher received a $2,000 cash prize for winning the undergraduate elevator pitch competition. He is confident that he a great team that will see many successes this year as the students are planning to compete in several more competitions, including the Arkansas Governor’s Cup, Texas Christian University鈥檚 Values and Ventures Competition, and the RICE Business Plan Competition in Texas. 鈥淏etween the clinical expertise Dr. Chrisman and Anna provide and the business skills and background of Abby and Zach, this is one of the strongest and most experienced teams I have ever had the privilege of working on,鈥 Asher said. 鈥淚鈥檓 very excited to see what the future holds for us.鈥 The team鈥檚 mentor, Martial Trigeaud, a 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock adjunct professor and business consultant at the Arkansas Small Business and Technology Development Center, said he was extremely proud of the team鈥檚 performance. 鈥淭hese are incredibly challenging competitions, so to even be invited to travel to Ivey to compete is a success,鈥 Trigeaud said. 鈥淚 am very proud of what the team has accomplished, and I am waiting for the next business plan competition.鈥 In the upper right photo, a team of business students (Zach Cochran, bottom left,听Noah听Asher, center, and Abigail Resendiz, bottom right) from 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock have won second place at the international Ivey Business Plan Competition. The students collaborated with Arkansas Cardiology Interventional Cardiologist Dr. Dwight Christman, back left, Baptist Health Cardiovascular Nurse Anna Helm, center left, and Martial Tregeaud, back right, to commercialize a medical device invented by Chrisman to help cardiologists perform heart surgery with greater safety and efficiency. Photo by Ben Krain.]]>