Find the contest rules and all you need to get started on your entry, but first let’s look back on the progress of last year’s winners.

Challenge Champion Raw Apps found ways to execute its strategy in the mobile market.

Team behind First Place Kit Korp prepares for life’s next chapter — there’s no kit for that.

<span class="leadin">Susan Amat </span>is co-founder and executive director of The Launch Pad at Toppel, an entrepreneurial career center at the University of Miami that has helped hundreds of startups. Amat ventured into the music business as a concert promoter at age 15. A serial entrepreneur, she started and ran a successful record label and developed a television show that aired on the E! Network as well as the first CD-Rom magazine. She teaches business strategy, entrepreneurship and organizational behavior at UM and leads Startup Florida.

First Place winner DonorCommunity is building a name in the nonprofit industry.

<span class="leadin">John C. Fleming</span>, a serial entrepreneur, is the technology practice lead at Biztegra Partners, a social web agency based in West Palm Beach. He started his career as a software developer in 1979 and has worked nationally and internationally in engineering, sales, marketing, services and general management in industries ranging from high tech to real estate. Fleming has started companies, raised money and has been part of teams that built products that became market leaders in their space.

<span class="leadin">Felipe F. Basulto </span>is the retail market manager for TD Bank, overseeing the Miami-Dade locations and responsible for growth, profitability and continued expansion of TD Bank’s retail network in the local market. Basulto held similar positions with Regions Bank and Bank of America. He serves on the board for the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, is chair-elect of the South Florida Hispanic Chamber, serves as a trustee with United Way, is chair for the March of Dimes Walk for 2012 and serves on Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) South Florida’s board.

Do you run a small business or is being your own boss in your plans?

Flamingo Products of South Florida manufactures almost a billion napkins a year in a Hialeah factory. Tonny Arias worked for the company for 20 years before buying it in 2005, and now his business is growing.

A Fort Lauderdale company sells armored vehicles to military clients and companies with employees overseas.

For Al Nelson, who pitched his Miami Beach-based startup EZVIP.com on the ABC show <span class="italic">Shark Tank,</span> the risk was worth the reward.

Comfort in The Word explores ways to improve sales during a Miami Herald Small Business Makeover.

Comfort in The Word explores ways to improve sales during a Miami Herald Small Business Makeover.

Founder Beverlee Kagan died in 2002, but her son and a longtime manager carry on the business.

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