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Don Blewett, at far right, presents the $25,000 top prize Tuesday (Nov. 23) in the $50,000 Opportunity for Indiana Business Plan Competition to representatives of Quadraspec, from left, Eric Davis, Chad Barden and Brian Weichel. Blewett is associate director of Purdue University's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship in West Lafayette, where the competition took place. Quadraspec is a West Lafayette company that aims to commercialize protein-diagnostics technology with a wide range of applications. The company's technology was developed at Purdue by physics professor David Nolte. The West Lafayette competition was one of three statewide co-sponsored by the Lilly Endowment as part of its $3.5 million, three-year Opportunity for Indiana grant.
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Molly Pentecost, Artistway.com's director of marketing, makes the business plan presentation that won second place and $15,000 Tuesday (Nov. 23) in the $50,000 Opportunity for Indiana Business Plan Competition. Artistway.com represents visual artists' work on a Web site and markets the works to corporations and individual consumers. The West Lafayette competition was one of three statewide co-sponsored by the Lilly Endowment as part of its $3.5 million, three-year Opportunity for Indiana grant. The competition took place at Purdue's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship at Discovery Park.
(Purdue News Service photos/David Umberger)
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