April 14, 2008 - 12:00am
By Jake Friedman
To conclude its search for the best real-world business proposals from Cornell undergraduates, Entrepreneurship@Cornell held the final round of the 2008 Big Idea Competition on Friday. After an audience-wide vote in Statler Hall on Friday, the developers of Scrimple — a website that provides Cornell students with printable coupons from local restaurants, shopping centers and services — were awarded with a $2,500 cash prize.
Matt Ackerson ’09, the company’s founder and one of its directors, said he came up with the idea as part of a project for an MBA course he took last spring and executed it after the semester ended.