# Social venture competition winner Madécasse, co-founded by Brian McCollum (MBA '07), is featured

1 School News November 12, 2013 ![Poets and Quants logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_036687.gif?itok=YuUEYfSP)>

Excerpt from [Poets & Quants](http://poetsandquants.com/2013/11/12/madecasse-brothers-use-bean-to-bar-chocolate-to-benefit-madagascar/) -- "McCollum, who graduated in 2007, says the company got a huge boost from participating in Stern’s 2008 Business Plan Competition. 'That was where we got the majority of the resources specific to the company,' he says. 'We got to speak with a whole bunch of different people very quickly and got a lot of feedback that ordinarily would’ve taken months or years to get.'”

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