McLean-based TroopID wins Friday's contest at Arlington Economic Development.
The music blasting Friday inside the Glebe Road offices of Arlington Economic Development set the tone for a high-energy, two-hour event that gave 20 area entrepreneurs a chance to pitch their ideas to some of the top names in the greater Washington startup scene. Startup Virginia's Pitch for Charity event gave each entrepreneur one minute to sell their idea to a panel of startup leaders and investors. They got immediate feedback — and judgment — on their ideas and delivery. "We really have the opportunity to take this energy and this excitement … and create the future of this country," Donna Harris, managing director of the Startup America Partnership, told the crowd. She cited the importance of small, fast-growth companies to the overall…
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Two students get the chance to show off their businesses Friday.
Two Wakefield High School students got the chance Friday to pitch their business ideas in front of some of the leaders of Washington's startup scene. Steven Luizaga, a senior, and Richard Tan, a junior, attended part of Friday's Pitch for Charity event at Arlington Economic Development with their entrepreneurship teacher, Maureen Naughton. Once the Pitch for Charity group settled in after lunch, the two students were given a chance to make their pitches. Luizaga went first. He said he's accumulated five years of experience with Mac products, and so his business is to customize and fix such products. He engraved the symbol of his favorite soccer team on the back of his iPhone, for instance. He said he also could fix broken screens and …
