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Monday, 01 December 2008 |
SCBIZ Daily Staff
CHARLESTON -- People with entrepreneurial ideas have one more day to submit them for the chance to win cash and other prizes in a statewide business idea contest.
Got an idea? Click here to enter the 2009 New Ideas for a New Carolina Business Idea Contest.
The 2009 New Ideas for a New Carolina contest encourages S.C. residents to turn innovative ideas into reality. The grand prize winner will receive $5,000 of seed money for the business idea, tickets to the ThinkTEC Innovation Summit in Charleston and a “dream team” of mentors to help cultivate the idea.
In addition, the contest will award $2,500 and tickets to the Innovation Summit to four first-place winners and $1,000 to five honorable mention winners. All winners also receive a scholarship to FastTrac, an entrepreneurial business training course.
To enter, go online by Dec. 2 and answer a few questions about why your idea would be successful. Entrants must be S.C. residents at least 18 years old.
Winners of the 2009 New Ideas for a New Carolina contest will be announced at the ThinkTEC Innovation Summit on Feb. 11 in Charleston.
The contest has five categories: engineering, information technology, bioscience, environmental sustainability and wildcard.
State leaders from angel capital groups, businesses, nonprofits, government entities and educational institutions will judge the ideas. Awards are based on the viability, innovation, vision and profit potential of the idea.
In the wildcard category, S.C. residents will vote for their favorite idea. The top five choices will go to celebrity judges Mike Veeck, president of the Charleston RiverDogs, and comedian Bill Murray, RiverDogs co-owner and “director of fun.” Veeck and Murray will pick one wildcard winner from the five finalists.
Now in its fourth year, the New Ideas for a New Carolina Business Idea Contest is sponsored by a coalition of representatives from SC Launch, New Carolina: SC’s Council on Competitiveness, FastTracSC, ThinkTEC and other organizations around the state.
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