Wish you could make $250...turn your idea into cash
Registration for IdeaBounce has closed.
IdeaBounce will be held again Fall 2008.
Did you ever have a great idea that you wanted to share with everyone ...step up to the challenge and compete to turn your idea into money. IdeaBounce is designed to help entrepreneurs (anyone with a great, innovative concept, idea, or plan) communicate and organize their concepts...a critical step towards future success.
Every idea is welcome! The best fifteen contestants will be given 2 minutes to "pitch" their idea to judges using no PowerPoint presentations, only you and small props. Judges will grade each entrepreneur based on the clarity of the idea, presentation effectiveness, and the request for help (have you organized possible mentoring opportunities that could help transform an idea into a reality). Four winners will be selected at the finals, and will be awarded $250 and a private dinner with the judges that evening!
Competition Finals: Thursday, September 20, 2007
Location: Daily Illini Media Building - 4th Floor
512 E. Green Street, Champaign
4:30 - 5:00pm - Reception and competition check-in
5:00 - 6:30pm - Competition
7:00pm - Private dinner with judges for the 4 winners
How to enter the competition
- Judges will select the best 15 finalists after September 13
- The 15 finalists will move on to the Competition Finals on Thursday, September 20
- Finalists will give a 2 minute "elevator pitch" presentation to a panel of judges and audience of peers
- 4 IdeaBounce winners will be selected and announced at the end of the event
- Prize: each winner will receive $250 and a private dinner with the judges that evening
Thank you to our friends at the Skandalaris Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, at Washington University for the use of their IdeaBounce logo and judging tools.
And thank you to our co-sponsor the Daily Illini.
