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Pitch Southern WV: Business Idea Competition
September 13, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT
Attend the upcoming Pitch Southern WV Business Idea Competition and watch local candidates pitch their ideas. You get a vote in who wins!
About this event
The WV Hive Network, in partnership with WVU Tech Launch Lab, is excited to announce the return of Pitch Southern West Virginia, a business idea competition encompassing twelve counties in southern West Virginia. The upcoming competition, to be held at WVU Tech in Beckley, WV, is for residents or businesses located in Raleigh, Fayette, Nicholas, Summers, Braxton, Webster, Pocahontas, Greenbrier, Monroe, Mercer, Wyoming, and McDowell Counties and WVU Tech students.
Entrepreneurs will compete for a $2,000 first place prize and a smaller second or third place prize. Join us as an audience member at WVU Tech on September 13th to show support for local and aspiring businesses pitch to a panel of judges. All audience members also get to vote on who you think should win!
Location:
WVU Tech campus | Life Sciences Building: Room 200.
100 Mel Hancock Way, Beckley, WV 25801
Do you have a great business idea and want to enter into the competition?
How do you apply?
Apply at https://wvhive.com/business-idea-competitions/ by midnight August 15, 2022.
Who is eligible?
* ONLY those with new business ideas or new business start-ups less than three years in operation are eligible.
* You must either have a business located in or live in Nicholas, Braxton, Fayette, Webster, Pocahontas, Greenbrier, Summers, Monroe, Raleigh, Mercer, Wyoming, or McDowell County or be a WVU Tech Student to apply.
* You DO NOT need to be a WV Hive client to apply.
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