Case Study: Just Start It uses GroupMap to streamline student startup judging and feedback

Just Start It ranks 200+ student teams with GroupMap and awards a $5,000 prize

Just Start It, an innovative student startup program, faced the challenge of efficiently judging and ranking the pitches of ten finalist teams during a live event. They needed a solution that would allow nine judges to simultaneously rate presentations, collaborate on feedback, and instantly calculate results without disrupting the proceedings. They chose GroupMap as their judging software platform for the evening.

Using GroupMap, each judge was able to rate the teams and provide comments in real-time via their mobile devices or laptops. The platform combined all judge rankings to instantly generate overall scores and a final ranked list of the teams. GroupMap also provided detailed feedback reports for each team, which the organizers found invaluable for post-event discussions. The solution successfully identified the winning team, which received a $5,000 prize, and streamlined the entire judging process for the event organizers, who now plan to permanently integrate GroupMap into their program.

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