2013 China Business Challenge Finalists
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Dream On
We fund our social enterprise named “Dream On” to provide diverse service to seniors. We build our new-conceptual nursing home center to let the elderly people to live, to be entertained and to study at our center. We choose the site in Bancang in the city of Changsha, in Hunan province with graceful environment and convenient transportation. Our target customers are medium and high-income retirees who stay at home and need to enrich their retired life. Our multi-services include health caring, entertaining classes, employment opportunities and some other humanistic services. We aim to relieve the social problem of China’s rapidly aging population. Our core value is to make the old get cared and the young are cultivated.
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TTTJ
Napa Valley Wine Wine serves as an essential role in Chinese celebrations such as weddings and birthdays, and acts as the lubricant that oils the wheels of business. Our proposal is to import quality and affordable wine from Nap Valley that are easy for Chinese to enjoy and share with those they love. More than promoting good quality wine, we are also promoting life experience revolving around joy and fun. While selling wine we are also bring value to our Chinese community by donating 1RMB for each bottle we sell to the “Hope Project” in China.
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AllTalented
Global Residence—Mobile app helps international population manage life in foreign countries As globalization drives more people to travel, study and develop their career in foreign countries, there are growing needs in easy and reliable solution to manage one's international experience. To serve the growing global residence population, the team aimed at building a mobile based platform to simplify users' processes during traveling, including travel document applications, career development, etc. At the same time, the team would like to offer business partners more insights about the growing global residence population to help them develop more products and service to facilitate globalization.
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eV Score
A decision tool to quantitatively evaluate clean vehicle options China set a target to have 500,000 units of new energy vehicle on the road by 2015 and five million units by 2020. However, regardless of strong government subsidies and industry efforts, only about 12,000 clean vehicles were sold in China as of 2012. eV Score aims to bridge this gap by providing a decision tool to potential electric vehicle buyers to quantitatively evaluate electric vehicle options (i.e. hybrids, plug-in hybrids, battery electric vehicles) and providing mobility data to vehicle manufacturers and dealers to facilitate better vehicle design.
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MentoRated
MentoRated is an online learning platform where experts of specific topics can effectively engage with learners, regardless of either party’s locations. Specifically, these topics are NOT random. Every subject that we launch operates with a well-designed curriculum that standardizes the quality of service from our mentors, but also gives room for customization with menthes. With the application of two major education philosophies — asynchronous and flipped learning, MentoRated is scalable solution capable of educating various subjects and is ready to take a share of the fastest growing markets in the world.
Meilun Li
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Diversify
Our main goal of the company is to diversify a student’s vision of the world, through developing their own interests and pursuits, meeting different people of different fields, and knowing the world beyond the classroom. We do not want people in China to follow a linear path paved for them by society; we want them to pave their own way with what makes them happy. We’ll help them Diversify their path, letting them go where they want to go.
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Monroe Street Survivors
MonroeCow L.P. (Mergers & Acquisition and Consulting Service Specialist for Milk Powder Industry) Chinese Milk Powder brands are going through an extremely hard time right now. After many scandals about the low quality of domestic Milk Powder, consumers have lost confidence in domestic brands. Foreign Milk Powder brands have over 60% of the total market shares. Chinese Ministry of Technology and Information has put restructuring emphasis only on huge firms. But midsize firms don't have the support to go through the market battle.
MonroeCow is a financial service Limited Partnership that targets towards Chinese midsize firms in the Milk Powder Industry. We provide a “Rebirth Model” for midsize companies to survive the Milk Powder Quality Crisis through either merging with another brand or selling to category leaders. MonroeCow will be leading this “Rebirth Model” through a full service line of Evaluation, Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory and Management Consulting Service. Our Core Competences are Professional network with government departments and Team Expertise in Entrepreneurship, M&A and food quality.
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Daebak
Yuyueling (Online Medical Reservation System [with symptoms diagnosis]) Due to inadequate medical resources, patients need to spare hours in their schedule for medical appointments. Long queues are often seen in counters where people make appointments, as well as outside doctors’ offices when they are waiting for their appointments.
We believe that the problems are a result of lack of multiple ways for reservation. Patients usually only reserve their appointments at the registration counters in hospitals; moreover, they are not informed of time slots that are readily available in other hospitals of the same region. We would develop an online medical reservation system that includes these features: 1) User information database; 2) Keyword extractions; 3) system diagnoses for possible diseases 4) Hospital and doctor matching; 5) Patient online feedback; and 6) Appointment notification and confirmation. When the users type in their symptoms, the system will match those symptoms to possible diseases, which helps patients to decide their need to visit hospitals. If they believe they have the need to see the doctor, they can make reservations through our system.
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Panda-Go-Round
uFit In China, the urban population is suffering from sub-par wellness both mentally and physically. People do not exercise because of time constraints, lack of motivation, and absence of self-accountability in today’s busy and almost self-indulging society. Therefore, uFit plans to ameliorate this deprivation with a holistic approach: by providing accessible fitness programs and bringing the gym to YOU!
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Water Elites
Membrane for Water: Simple and Clean Water pollution is one of the most emergent problems in China. A large portion of the polluted water comes from the industrial production process with various pollution components. The traditional wastewater treatment has a lot of problems such as big footprint, low efficiency, and side effects to the environments. Moreover, the quality of effluent is not high enough for the reuse in the industrial process, which increases the cost of industrial production.
We are going to solve industrial wastewater problems by using the membrane technique. The technique that we choose to solve the wastewater problem is a high efficiency, low energy consumption and easy operation liquid-solid separation method. It can be used to treat various types of wastewater by choosing membranes with different component and structure. The market of membrane for wastewater treatment is rapidly increased in the recent years. Our team proposed our own company to provide industrial wastewater solution based on our leading membrane technique.
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