Ithaca College Senior Aryeh Hoppenstein Takes Second Place in Business Plan Competition

2016 Apr 27

Ithaca College senior Aryeh Hoppenstein's business, FilmUp, placed second in the college's annual Business Plan Competition.

FilmUp is an online connections and collaboration platform for students and professional filmmakers. FilmUp was awarded a $10,000 prize, which Hoppenstein says will be used to develop a beta version of the platform and begin customer trials. He says the company has already garnered interest from Ithaca College, the University of Miami and the University of California-Los Angeles.

"We've been working so tirelessly towards this business plan in hopes of trying to make something for ourselves," said Hoppenstein. "To come in second place shows that we were recognized for our efforts in the sense that other people believe in what we're doing."

The Business Plan Competition is open to all current Ithaca College students and is free for anyone to enter. Students are eligible for mentoring and may elect to enroll in "Ideas Into Action," a School of Business course designed to help students turn an idea into a viable business plan.