Y. innovators win 'MBA Showdown'
Apartment managing software lands team on magazine cover
The magazine contest's grand prize is $50,000, which Bateman, Zimmer and Trionfo picked up Thursday during a ceremony in New York City. They were joined by Jeramy Morrill and Jordan Jones, the other co-founders of Property Solutions International.
The prize money may be just the tip of the iceberg, Bateman said. The magazine isn't due on newsstands until Monday, but it already has been sent to 1 million people with American Express business credit cards, prompting new business for Property Solutions.
"We're already getting calls," Bateman said. "Over the course of the next month, I think we'll see a big effect. It will be a strong launching pad for this business."
The victory continues a magical trend of financing for Property Solutions, which produces Web-based software called VantageXP for apartment complex management. The idea also won the $50,000 grand prize in BYU's business-plan competition in April. Bateman then launched the company with $160,000 in seed money he rolled over from his profits earned by DearElder.com, a Web-based LDS missionary-correspondence business he started with Zimmer.
All of the prize money is plowed back into the company, Bateman said.
Additionally, Property Solutions has partnerships with two apartment management companies and is seeking eight more. The corporate partners pay once for Property Solution's software, VantageXP, then receive free upgrades for life in exchange for help with the direction of the software.
More than 50 companies are using VantageXP to allow renters to pay bills online and provide other services during the company's beta-testing stage.
Those sorts of strategies won over an all-star panel of Fortune judges that included the founder of USA Networks, Kay Koplovitz.
Ironically, the BYU team doesn't have a single MBA student. Bateman is 18 credits shy of an undergraduate business degree, Zimmer graduated in English in April and Trionfo is a senior in electrical engineering.
They were allowed to compete because they won BYU's business-plan contest.
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