We’re still competing in Vencorp’s Mashable Showdown and now we just entered  Babson’s $30,000 Innovation Competition.  I’m really enjoying these contests.  Unlike the old school business plan competitions, v2.0 always seems to include a crowdsourcing element.  That’s great because you can get early feedback on different elements of your plan and then iterate before you get in front of the live judging.  And, as a new entrepreneur with zero experience pitching investors, they have been great way for me to get my game on before all the fun begins.  Oh yes, and if we win, not bad PR there either.

If you aren’t familiar with Babson College, it’s a real hotbed of entrepreneurialism and I am fortunate to know the president of the College, Len Schlesinger.  As a former professor at Harvard Business School and the the Vice Chair at the Limited, he was an encouraging early advisor to me on StyleHop.  I haven’t told him we entered StyleHop in the competition so it would be such a cool surprise if we win.

As part of our Babson entry we uploaded a bunch of information about StyleHop including a cool 1-minute video here.   If you want to help us out in the competition, here are a few things you could do when you go to the link (you will need to register to do these things):
1.  Give us a star ranking
2.  Hit the “follow” button to follow StyleHop
3.  Hit the Digg and/or Delicious buttons to upload our company profile to those sites
4.  Leave a comment on our company profile

Thanks,  Dave