What’s YOUR Bold idea?
We’ll invest $50,000 to help launch two new ventures.
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UPDATE: The We Media PitchIt! Challenge is closed for 2010.
Stay tuned for more PitchIt!
Calling all founders, dreamers and social entrepreneurs
How will YOU build a better world through media and technology? Founders and would-be entrepreneurs can pitch their big ideas to a panel of business-launching experts. We’ll invest up to $25,000 in each of two ideas.
Slow pokes need not apply. Be ready to run. If you’re a finalist, you’ll bring your idea and present it live before judges and the audience at We Media Miami ’10.
Even if you’re not a finalist, come watch the competition to start the next big thing.
We Media PitchIt! begins with a simple goal: We want to find the best start-ups and help launch them with advice from funders, investors, corporations, fellow entrepreneurs, attendees and media. We’re open to commercial and non-profit ideas.
We’ve created a platform for seed-stage companies to take center stage.
- 2010 Winners
- 2009 Winners | Finalists
- AssignIt: Mobile Crowd-Sourcing Apps for Hyper-Local Investigative Journalism
- Blitz Bazaar: Everybody a Changemaker
- Citizens Market Pilot
- LoudSauce – crowdfunded ad space for your favorite causes
- MiCAST – Mobile Information Crisis Action Support Team
- Ratemywaterquality.com
- Stractor
2010 finalists included:
How it works.
1. Enter the We Media PitchIt! Challenge. If you’re a finalist you’ll pitch your idea live before a panel of expert judges – and a live audience of leaders, innovators and investors of the connected society. The judges select the two best ideas. We’ll invest $25,000 in each to help the founders turn their ideas into reality.
2. You don’t have to enter the challenge to be part of the PitchIt experience. Join our mailing list for details about when and where the finals will take place.
Read more in the Pitch It FAQ
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