| Judge's Name | Competitor Business Name | Score for CONTENT | Score for PREPAREDNESS | Score for PITCH SKILLS | Score for COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AND POTENTIAL for GROWTH (SWOT analysis) | Score for OVERALL CONCEPT | Score for COMMUNITY & TARGET MARKET | Total Score | NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Reiff | Patron Senior Living LLC | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 19 | Check payroll expenses to include payroll taxes and costs. Cost of goods seem low. Monthly projections would help create better understanding of financials. |
| Kiley Phelps | HOPE HEALS LLC | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 22 | How many people make up your target market and what is the growth potential? Practice your presentation to not run out of time to get to the financials What are the COGS/profit? The revenue was great, but I was curious to see more about that. |
| Breonna Kellogg | HOPE HEALS LLC | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 20 | Great introduction. Bring handouts like your brochures. Make sure to shorten your pitch to be 5 minutes. Also talk about how your paid from your payor sources for example you get paid a certain amount hourly or etc. Contact NBDC for financial projections. |
| Kiley Phelps | Nebraska Innovation Labs | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 25 | How will you reach your growth opportunities and revenue projections for 2026-2028? What is the revenue breakdown (donations vs fee for service)? |
| Jim Reiff | HOPE HEALS LLC | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 16 | While not necessarily, a handout helps. Check the financials against market realities and ability to onboard quality staff. |
| Kiley Phelps | D ATKINS ENTERPRISES LLC DBA GIMME THE SCOOP | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 22 | Great job to the siblings for stepping up and doing a great job with the pitch. Make sure the pictures are clear and not blurry to really highlight your product well What are the seasonal trends? Does revenue drop in the winter, if yes, what does that look like? |
| Nina Austin | HOPE HEALS LLC | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 22 | Understand market reality, legal fees and compliance with the states as far as training for staff. What's are your policies and make sure your financial are tight. Get with NBDC. |
| Breonna Kellogg | NorthStar biPOC Wellness Ctr, LLC | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 23 | Great introduction. Handout had great paper quality. The HUD has a monthly meeting that is great to be apart of to listen to other resources you can use and add your business as a referral source. I believe OPPD is now leading the meeting. Please make sure to add all 3 year financial projections; add like sales, sales per price, Cost of good, revenue and etc. |
| Candice Price | Nebraska Innovation Labs | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 24 | Add a bit more clarity to the cost per customer acquisition, as well as the separation of the non-profit and for profit. |
| Raisa Turner | Patron Senior Living LLC | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 28 | Add a slide the has a breakdown of how you plan to use all sources of growth and added referrals to show how your projections align with your marketing plan. |
| Jim Reiff | Gamble Tech Firm | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 27 | Consider wording- mentor vs coach. Is there a space for connecting volunteer mentors with mentees? |
| Jim Reiff | D ATKINS ENTERPRISES LLC DBA GIMME THE SCOOP | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 22 | Double check financial projections for marginal costs as scoops increase. How can this increase Long term owner salary over time. |
| Raisa Turner | HOPE HEALS LLC | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 21 | For the financial projections, dedicate time to fully understanding what the business expenses and costs are (payroll, training, taxes, insurance, etc.) and how the business revenue will cover and exceed the expenses. Include this information in your deck slides, create a new slide to show your plan on meeting the business projections for year 1, 2, & 3. |
| Jim Reiff | Abundant Faith N Joy | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 24 | Look at how to scale quicker. Remember to pay appropriately for the risk you are taking as an entrepreneur. |
| Breonna Kellogg | AFROMAHA LLC | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 24 | You moved really fast with switching the slides, hard to see the slides. When presenting keep eye contact with minimal times looking at the slides. Break down your financials. |
| Jim Reiff | NorthStar biPOC Wellness Ctr, LLC | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 21 | More discussion on innovation approaches, scale. Forecast is missing for financials. |
| Jim Reiff | Nebraska Innovation Labs | 4 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 23 | Need to clearly demonstrate the relationship between the LLC and the nonprofit arm. Is the LLC able to operate without the foundation? What is the dependencies? |
| Kiley Phelps | AFROMAHA LLC | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 23 | I loved the video as the introduction! The financials were hard to see on the screen - maybe a table view of annual totals for the year would make it easier to view Explain the revenue make up (difference between tickets sales, sponsorships, vendors) Consider focusing on breaking down one market's financials (Omaha?) for a clearer understanding. |
| Nina Austin | Gamble Tech Firm | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 29 | Great concept, maybe focus on coaching instead of mentoring. |
| Breonna Kellogg | Patron Senior Living LLC | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 23 | Great introduction. Work on adding more financial into your projections. |
| Breonna Kellogg | Abundant Faith N Joy | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 25 | Great teamwork. Make sure to give products to judges before starting pitch. Smile and own the space. Awesome job. |
| Fatou Sogoyou | AFROMAHA LLC | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 24 | Great presentation, nice slides, would like to see more details on the revenue model, add in vendors stream of income not just sponsor and tickets... break down the different type - food, service based, connectors etc... impact on the community etc? Presenter could slow down a little bit.... Presenter could prepare more and provide more details on financial, at times had trouble providing numbers when judge asked questions... also expansion is good but focus on your WHY! Good job overall. |
| Candice Price | Still Poppin Gourmet Popcorn | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 26 | Adjust financial slide for easy readability, possibly just go back a few years on the slide instead of the beginning in 2017. You can speak to the beginning years, but maybe just show a few for a larger graphic. Don't be afraid to ask for help when and where needed, and don't be afraid to GROW!!! |
| Fatou Sogoyou | Nebraska Innovation Labs | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 22 | Clarify non profit comment - confused judges Clarify the cost of acquisition - 13k is high , how many customers are you averaging Improve the slides - title, legend as needed etc |
| Candice Price | Gamble Tech Firm | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 27 | Excellent and exciting concept. Looking forward to seeing it's growth. Consider additional options for revenue opportunities, including minimal costs to mentees. |
| Judge's Name | Competitor Business Name | Score for CONTENT | Score for PREPAREDNESS | Score for PITCH SKILLS | Score for COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AND POTENTIAL for GROWTH (SWOT analysis) | Score for OVERALL CONCEPT | Score for COMMUNITY & TARGET MARKET | Total Score | NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS |
