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WELLSBURG — Several folks or teams with tips for new business ventures will vie for many 1000’s of pounds to support them make their targets a truth in a contest to be held Tuesday at Brooke Higher School.
The Ohio Valley Organization Alliance Corp. will keep its initially Business Pitch Contest at 5:30 p.m. in the school’s auditorium.
Admission is absolutely free for the occasion, which OVBAC member David Klick expects to be quite interesting.
“We have a whole lot of persons who have set a ton of time and thought into their initiatives,” mentioned Klick, noting the 7 opponents from Brooke and Hancock counties with ambitions for a vast selection of enterprises.
Klick is co-chairing the function with Dr. Heather Stone and Joan Simonetti.
He is between numerous alliance associates with past ties to the Wellsburg Chamber of Commerce and the former Brooke County Economic Improvement Authority, which had teamed for numerous a long time to hold business enterprise pitch contests.
“This year I’d say we have the very best applicants since I’ve been included with the pitch. And it is the largest pot for the winners,” he said.
Klick claimed thanks to the generosity of community firms and other companies, the team will divide $8,000 among the the two winners, with the greatest quantity likely to the just one that areas very first.
He famous the prize income will be disbursed as the two organization concepts are made.
Klick explained the contest is equivalent in format to television’s “Shark Tank,” with the contestants supplied a minimal time to supply their proposals to a panel of five judges.
The 5 are: Luke Diserio, chief government officer of American Muscle mass Docks and Fabrication Kelly Jeffers, winner of the last organization pitch Ingrid Loy, a advertising and marketing teacher at West Liberty University Jay McLaughlin, vice president of accounting and finance at Wheeling-Nippon Metal and Weirton legal professional Michael Simon.
Every of the contestants has been instructed to prepare a presentation that contains believed costs for their endeavor, their focused current market and their vision for the small business in two to five decades.
“We have a ton of men and women who have place a large amount of time and believed into their tasks,” explained Klick.
To enable the contestants prepare, the Ohio Valley Business enterprise Alliance has invited them to the West Virginia Compact Business enterprise Development Center’s Inspiring You sequence of seminars and referring them to other means.
Held at the Brooke County Public Library, the absolutely free seminars supply advice to aspiring and present organization entrepreneurs in matters ranging from building a small business system to marketing and advertising their merchandise and services to probable shoppers to knowledge fiscal statements.
In addition to the event’s sponsors, Klick expressed thanks to the chambers of commerce of Weirton, Follansbee and Wellsburg, which also have offered guidance and Brooke County faculty officials for making the auditorium offered for the team.
He mentioned the group hopes to spur financial growth throughout the Northern Panhandle and sees activities like the contest as a way to assistance that.
“We think this could seriously be plenty of to move the needle for anyone,” reported Klick.










