PowerUP Business Plan Competition 2025 (up to $20,000) – YOA

Deadline: Unspecified

Applications are open for the PowerUP Business Plan Competition 2025. Since 2003, they’ve nurtured 10,900 people with over 1,800 enterprise plans and awarded greater than $650,000 in money and in-variety items to Brooklyn entrepreneurs. The success tales embody greater than 100 firms with ardour for foods and drinks, well being and wellness, arts and crafts, media and trend, schooling, social justice, and cultural range–all the pieces that makes Brooklyn nice.

Participants attend Zoom webinar courses on creating enterprise plans, advertising and marketing, monetary projections, and doing enterprise analysis. The monetary projections and enterprise analysis courses are necessary.

Benefits

• Winners will obtain money awards as seed capital to begin a enterprise in Brooklyn. Cash prizes of $20,000 for first place, $10,000 for second place, $5,000 for third place, and $1,000 for 5 benefit winners shall be awarded.
• Also, throughout the awards ceremony, one of many benefit winners shall be chosen by the viewers to obtain a further $1,000!

Eligibility

• Entrants have to be 18 years of age or older;
• Live in Brooklyn and plan to begin a enterprise in Brooklyn;
• Participants should attend the orientation, get a Brooklyn Public Library Card, meet with a enterprise advisor, and attend a minimal of three PowerUP webinar courses.

Application

The competitors is run by way of a web-based platform. All potential candidates should attend the orientation earlier than making use of. The orientation explains all the main points of making use of to and collaborating within the competitors.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to PowerUP Business Plan Competition.