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On
Friday
I told you about
a
Fantasy
Domaining Contest that DOMAINfest
Global is currently running with an all
expenses paid trip to the Jan. 31-Feb. 2,
2012 conference in Santa Monica,
California going to the winner. There is another
contest that will be held at the show that
will be of special interest to anyone who is
trying to launch a new online business, service
or technology idea. That is the 3rd annual PITCHfest
Contest on February 1st that
will give participants a chance to pitch their
projects to a panel of angel investor judges and
around 700 internet entrepreneurs and
investors expected to
be at DOMAINfest Global.
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Each
contestant will have three minutes to
make their presentation, then two
winner's trophies will be handed out. One will
be the judges's choice and the other will
be selected by members of the audience
who will pick their favorite through a real time
text message voting system. The
2012 panel of judges be feature a group of
well-connected angel investors including:
• John Morris, Chairman
Emeritus of Tech Coast Angels, the largest angel
organization in the country.
• Jeff Cohn,
entrepreneur/VC involved in SoCal investment
opportunities and CEO of two nationally
recognized crowd-sourcing location based mapping
services.
• Scott Jarus, Oversee.net
Director and Chairman and CEO, Ironclad
Performance Wear.
• Ben Kuo, founder of
SOCALTECH LLC, and the publisher of
socalTECH.com, has been active in supporting
Southern California's high tech industry.
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Stefan
Wrobel (Smartvark.com)
2011 PITCHfest Judges Winner
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David
Clements (ePayments.com)
2011 PITCHfest Judges Winner |
The judges
will be scoring contestants based on
four criteria: Creativity, Viability,
Originality and Revenue
Potential. The audience may wind up
picking the same winner, but they don't
always agree with the judges. For
example, last January the 2011 Pitchfest
judges' trophy went to Stefan Wrobel of
Smartvark.com while the audience
chose David Clements of ePayments.com
as their winner.
Both 2012 winners
will receive DOMAINfest Global
PITCHfest Innovator trophies and
will be prominently mentioned in a
post-show press release. However, all
of PITCHfest presenters will have a
chance to profit by making the global
audience of Internet professionals aware
of their projects.
The deadline
for Pitchfest submissions is January
16, 2012. You can get complete
information on how to participate here. |
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