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BDC Announces 2015 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award Call for Nominations (for a chance to win $100,000)
Monday, February 2, 2015
Vancouver, BC, February 2, 2015--(T-Net)--The Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) announced that it is accepting applications for the 2015 edition of the BDC Young Entrepreneur Award.
Canadian business owners aged 18 to 35 will compete for a grand prize of $100,000 and a second prize of $25,000 in consulting services from BDC.
If you're an entrepreneur aged 18 to 35, tell the Business Development Bank of Canada about a project you think will take your business to the next level and how winning the $100,000 grand prize will make it happen for you.
Visit bdc.ca/yea to get more information about the contest and enter by March 18 at noon Eastern Daylight Time.
“Positioning your products and services in an increasingly sophisticated market is key to raising the profile of your business and staying ahead of the competition,” says Michel Bergeron, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Public Affairs at BDC. “My advice to young entrepreneurs is to constantly invest in their business to be able to increase their capacity to create value for customers. Entering the 2015 BDC Young Entrepreneur Award contest is your chance to get noticed at the national level and to tap into markets that are otherwise inaccessible or very difficult to enter.”
How To Enter
Submit your business turning point idea to BDC today. Whether it's making an investment, hiring more people, tackling a new market or engineering a strategy shift, take advantage of this opportunity and get cracking on those resolutions.
The good news? It has never been easier to apply: entrants need only fill in the contest application form and submit a high resolution photo. For the first time in 2015, only the provincial finalists will be asked to produce a video.
Learn more about the application process, eligibility criteria and contest rules and apply online at bdc.ca/yea. All entries must describe a project that has yet to be implemented.
In doubt about the turning point? Check out the BDC Young Entrepreneur Award fact sheet and discover five lessons past BDC Young Entrepreneur Award winners and finalists don't want you to learn the hard way.
Visit bdc.ca/awards to learn other ways in which BDC recognizes Canadian entrepreneurs.
About the BDC Young Entrepreneur Award contest
Created by the Business Development Bank of Canada in 1988, the BDC Young Entrepreneur Award contest pays tribute to remarkable Canadian entrepreneurs between 18 and 35 years of age. Up to 11 finalists—one for each province and one for the combined territories—will be selected to compete for a $100,000 Grand Prize. A second prize of $25,000 in consulting services will be awarded to the contest runner-up. A national committee will evaluate the quality of the finalist projects and will give each finalist a ranking that will be combined with the public vote. In 2015, the national committee evaluation is weighed to account for 50% of each project's final ranking, and the public vote will account for the remaining 50% of the ranking. www.bdc.ca/yea
About BDC
Canada's business development bank, BDC, puts entrepreneurs first. With almost 2,000 employees and more than 100 business centres across the country, BDC offers loans, consulting services, growth and business transition capital, securitization, as well as venture capital to more than 30,000 small and medium-sized companies. Their success is vital to Canada's economic prosperity.