{"id":582467,"date":"2010-05-28T00:14:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T04:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=82174"},"modified":"2010-05-28T00:14:46","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T04:14:46","slug":"yongopal-wins-uw-biz-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582467","title":{"rendered":"YongoPal Wins UW Biz Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/Education\/\">Education<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/people\/\">people<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/startups\/\">startups<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<strong>Luke Timmerman wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yongopal.com\/index.php\/cms\/index\/13\">YongoPal<\/a>, a Web startup that enables English conversations between people Korea and the U.S., won the grand prize of $25,000 at tonight&#8217;s University of Washington Business Plan Competition. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/seattle\/2010\/04\/14\/nwen-first-look-forum-tells-story-of-software-vs-medical-startups-online-travel-is-the-winner\/\">Empowering Engineering Technologies<\/a>, a company that seeks to help disabled people to walk again, won the $10,000 second place award, while Emergent Detection and Febris each won $5,000 prizes. I wrote about the last two companies last month, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/seattle\/2010\/04\/29\/entrepreneurs-at-uw-business-plan-competition-show-fire-for-cleantech-biotech-high-tech\/\">during an earlier round of the competition<\/a>, when I served as a judge.<\/p>\n<div class=\"postFooter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/seattle\/2010\/05\/28\/yongopal-wins-uw-biz-competition\/#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/reprints\/>Reprints<\/a> | Share: &nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=RT%20@Xconomy%20YongoPal%20Wins%20UW%20Biz%20Competition%20http:\/\/xconomy.com\/?p=82174\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/twitter.gif\" alt=\"Retweet\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a 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Empowering Engineering Technologies, a company that seeks to help disabled people to walk again, won the $10,000 second place award, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}