1st Place in Business Ideas Challenge
With my Coursevote.com idea, I won the Business Ideas Challenge.
It was an amazing experience. The judges had some great questions and advice, and really saw the potential of this project. I wasn’t allowed to actually demo the site (not allowed to use computers), but I printed out a few key pages from it for the judges. After the presentation we had a reception where I talked with a bunch of the judges, only a few had seen my idea. We had interesting conversations about my product and the new media landscape in general.
I’m about to hire a developer and we’ll get to work on building this site right away. Hopefully by mid-summer I’ll have a working prototype, which I’ll test out with some people and work out any bugs. The goal is to open it up university-wide by the beginning of school this fall.
If you’d like to beta test the site, or just keep up with it, go to Coursevote.com and type in your email address.
If you were a judge or someone I met today, send me an email so I can stay in contact. Thanks again for spending this whole day at Texas A&M helping us with this event.
May 3rd, 2007 at 7:11 am
Congrats Bill, very cool.
Let me know when you get that beta ready. I think you need a shiny badge and gradient somewhere.
May 3rd, 2007 at 12:35 pm
How’s this: http://www.billerickson.net/wp-content/uploads/coursevote2point0.jpg
May 3rd, 2007 at 10:09 pm
Congrats Bill! I wasn’t able to stay for the awards and only just now found out that you won. Great stuff!
Now quit reading your blog and go finish coursevote.com!
May 10th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
NICE! You can expand this idea in to so many areas … horsevote.com, golfcoursevote.com, sourcevote.com .. just endless possibilities!