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ProfileScreener.com Is Bronze Finalist In The Miami Herald8217s Business...

The Miami Herald announced Monday that ProfileScreener.com is a Bronze finalist in its annual Business Plan Challenge (online at: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/14843535.htm)



The Herald's8217;s Business Plan Challenge is an annual contest open to all South Florida entrepreneurs. This year, 120 business plans were submitted to the competition, but only 15 were chosen as finalists.



The winners were chosen by a panel of eight judges that included: The president and CEO of the Women'ss Business Development Center; a certified business analyst with Florida Atlantic University'ss Small Business Development Center; the CEO of the Miami-Dade Chamber of Commerce; the CEO of Venture2, a Delray Beach, FL consulting and venture management firm; the SBA business development officer for Zions Bank Small Business Finance (a division of California Bank & Trust); the president and CEO of Levitan & Palencia, a marketing firm that specializes in helping national and international clients break into the U.S. Hispanic market; a Defense Department contractor that is helping roll out an e-commerce site for MREs (meals ready to eat); and the former vice president and general manager of Latin American operations of Wang Laboratories, Digital Equipment Corp. and Apple Computer.



Stated Paul Farago, ProfileScreener.com's8217;s co-founder, 's8220;we are very excited to receive this distinction. It feels great to know that such accomplished individuals feel as strongly about ProfileScreener.com's8217;s potential as we do.'s8221;

Added Jeffrey Gluck, co-founder, 's8220;we know we have something great on our hands. Being a Finalist in this great competition will help the public discover our excellent service.'s8221;



For Farago, who grew-up in Miami, being a finalist in the Challenge is something of a personal milestone. 's8220;I grew up in Miami and have followed the Herald's8217;s Business Plan Challenge for a long time, always hoping that I would be a part of it one day. Today, I am and it feels great!'s8221;



About ProfileScreener.com:



ProfileScreener.com is a new service that allows parents to keep tabs on their children's8217;s Myspace and Friendster profiles. ProfileScreener.com also has a service for businesses that provides information on pre-hire and employee's8217;s Myspace and Friendster profiles.



ProfileScreener.com delivers to customers a report and an image of the child or employee's8217;s profile. The company's8217;s researchers use criteria selected by the customer to compile the reports. Search criteria can include underage drinking, drug use, sexual activity, sexual images, illegal activity, infidelity, misrepresentation of age, placement of too much personal information, derogatory statements about a business, and unauthorized distribution of a businesses's8217; proprietary information.



The Founders:



ProfileScreener.com was founded in April 2006 in Miami, FL by Paul Farago, 26, a 2002 graduate of the University of Miami (Florida) and current Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center law student; and Jeffrey S. Gluck, 25, a 2002 graduate of New York University and current Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center law student.

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