Learning entrepreneurial skills can benefit anyone seeking to elevate their chance at career and business success.
For this competition, you enter with a problem/solution that could become a business. The solution doesn't have to be well thought out or prototyped. Entering at the idea stage is great.
You will be asked to speak to potential customers before building your solution in order to validate that you are solving the right problem. We will hold 3 pop-up workshops preceding the submission deadline to better prepare you to submit the best entry possible. **Attendance at a minimum of 1 pop-up is mandatory.** Each pop-up will be a max of 1 hour.
Pop-up 1: Oct 12 @ 6:00 PM - Who is going to buy this thing? JEC 5119
Pop-up 2: Oct 19 @ 6:00 PM - How to talk to customers. JEC 5119
Pop-up 3: Pitching to win! (Prerecorded and available at
https://youtu.be/2fh_gMbJZDk)
Submissions (this form) due: Nov 13 @ 8AM
Final Competition (live pitch): Nov 15 @ 6PM JEC 4309