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Regional Leaders to Host Will This Float?
Where Business Ideas Sink or Swim
Will this Sink? Or Will this Float?
JOHNSON CITY, TENN. — Have you ever had an idea you thought could fundamentally change the way people live? Could your idea make you the next Mark Zuckerberg (creator of Facebook), Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak (creators of Apple)?
All aspiring entrepreneurs and seasoned professionals are invited to attend this event on Thursday, November 20, 2008, to help decide who has the best business idea, or elevator pitch.
Ten competitors will be selected to compete in the challenge, to be held at the Carnegie Hotel Ballroom, from 5:30 p.m., to 11 p.m. Presenters will have no more than five minutes to pitch his or her idea to the audience and a panel of three judges, all to find out … Will This Float?
Presenters will be pre-screened and judged based on the following criteria: few or no direct competitors; low adoption/switching costs for users; on-time (timely entry to market, considering environmental factors and market maturity); addresses unfilled need or want/solves a real problem (useful); and target market is identified and large.
The event will also showcase existing entrepreneurs and the regional technology-based group geeksouth to feature some of its most unique technologies happening right now. Local companies will provide services including online, live voting technology and streaming video of the event online.
Participants will be able to vote on their favorite pitch and prizes will be awarded at the end of the night.
Participants will be able to vote on their favorite pitch and prizes will be awarded at the end of the night.
Tickets are just $25, or $15 for students. Tickets include heavy hors d’œuvres and a chance to mix and mingle with some of the best minds in our area.
