Entrepreneurs Compete for Grant Money from the Pitt News [of the University of Pittsburgh]
"The next year, Erickson pitched Barre at Pitt’s 2011 Randall Family Big Idea Competition. She won second place in the Business Growth Idea category, and now the energy bars are sold at more than 150 locations across the country. “I felt like the competition was a great way to flesh out the elements of the business that we maybe had not fully developed,” Erickson said."