Koofers.com Proceeds to Round Two in Facebook Competition
From Facebook Developers, 10/15/08:
"We are thrilled to announce our top 25 recipients from round one of the fbFund Developer Competition. After poring through and carefully evaluating over 600 applications, we decided that these 25 teams have tremendous talent and great potential.The mission of fbFund is to identify talent and seed innovation on Facebook Platform."
On that list of 25 recipients selected from over 600 applications?!
Koofers - Koofers helps students create and share information that helps with classes. Users can share old tests, quizzes, and study guides; view current and past grade breakdown and average GPA for every class and professor; review professors and read ratings before signing up for new classes, and get help from other students in the same class.
What happens next?
From now through the beginning of November, each recipient will develop and submit their final applications and create a video showcasing their work, which you can watch on the fbFund Page. Around mid-November, we'll start soliciting our users to help us select the five finalists. Users will have the chance to try these applications, watch the videos and vote for their favorites. Final judging of round two will factor in user voting, as well as input from Facebook, Accel Partners and Founders Fund. Once round two closes in December, we will announce our five finalists, each of which will receive up to an additional $225,000 in funding.
Congratulations to Michael Rihani, co-founder of Koofers.com! Best of luck in round two!
Koofers.com is a member company of business acceleration center VT KnowledgeWorks, located in the Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, a technology park, a research park, and a science park on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. The research park provides high-technology companies access to university faculty, university facilities, university equipment, and business-related support services. The Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center fosters commercialization and technology transfer of university research for both high-tech start-up companies and established technology businesses.
Thanks for the blog post... the Koofers.com team is very excited to fully implement fbConnect and continue our growth to colleges nationwide!
Posted by: Michael Rihani | October 15, 2008 at 06:52 PM
I so wanted to write, "Go, Hokies!" in my post, but I refrained.
You've done us all proud, Michael. Thank you so much for your innovation, vision, and persistence.
Posted by: Anne Giles Clelland | October 15, 2008 at 07:52 PM
This is great for him. He was also Tech Crunched....http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/15/the-fbfund-gives-out-cash-to-25-facebook-developers/
Posted by: stu | October 15, 2008 at 10:32 PM
Great eye, Stu! A mention on TechCrunch is huge.
I checked out the post. At 6:15 AM EST, 10/16/08, it already had 27 comments. It's big news and a big deal.
Posted by: Anne Giles Clelland | October 16, 2008 at 06:17 AM
Michael,
Thanks a million for making the VT KnowledgeWorks program look good, and for providing a great model for more undergraduate entrepreneurs here in Blacksburg.
Posted by: Jim Flowers | October 16, 2008 at 07:55 AM
And thank you, Jim, for all the guidance you give entrepreneurs of all ages through your leadership of VT KnowledgeWorks and your blog:
http://www.startwithmoxie.com/
Posted by: Anne Clelland | October 16, 2008 at 08:28 AM
I don't have a problem saying Go Hokies!
It's nice to see locally-bred companies getting this kind of recognition.
Posted by: Jeremy Hart | October 16, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Michael,
Congratulations on the start up of such a powerful research tool and good luck as the competition continues. Have you heard any feedback from professors about the site so far?
Posted by: Adam Scouse | October 16, 2008 at 12:46 PM