Have A New Business Idea? Apply For The 2018 Lakewood Ideation Challenge!
Do you have an idea for a business or product which absolutely needs to be brought to market? Are you willing to put some time into actually making that happen? The 2018 Lakewood Ideation Challenge may just be the competition you've been looking for.
Residents of not just Lakewood, but all of Northeast Ohio, are invited to participate in the 2018 Lakewood Ideation Challenge by submitting a single-page Business Model Canvas and single-page Validation Plan along with preparing a 3 minute “elevator pitch." We'll crown two winners this year, with prize packages totalling over $2,000 in value!
Applications must be submitted no later than August 14th, 2018, but are accepted for business concepts even at the earliest "idea" stage.
On August 22nd, Finalists will be pitching their business concepts live at The Winchester at 6:30pm. The live pitch competition Finals is open to the public and free to attend.
More details for the Lakewood Ideation Challenge, including application requirements and official rules, can be found at StartupLakewood.com.
Mike Belsito is Lakewood's Entrepreneur in Residence and is Co-Director of Startup Lakewood. Mike is the Co-Founder of Product Collective, a community for product people and organizers of INDUSTRY: The Product Conference.
Mike Belsito
Mike Belsito is Lakewood's Entrepreneur in Residence and is Co-Director of Startup Lakewood. Mike is the Co-Founder of Product Collective, a community for product people and organizers of INDUSTRY: The Product Conference.
Mike is Author of the book, Startup Seed Funding For the Rest of Us, one of the top startup books on Amazon and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Design and Innovation at Case Western Reserve University.