Getting Started (Entry Requirements)

Business Concept & Elevator Pitch Competition
Get Started – Entry Requirements


ATTENTION:  The BEC has expanded its efforts.  We now have Three separate YEP competitions.

 

YEP Humboldt- For young people from Humboldt County.

YEP Siskiyou– For young people from Modoc and Siskiyou Counties.

YEP Shasta– For young people from Shasta, Trinity, Tehama, Butte, Glenn, Lassen, Del Norte, and Plumas Counties. 

YEP teams are determined by county of residence.  When you register for the competition, you are automatically placed in the appropriate competition location.

These are the requirements that determine whether an entry can be accepted.

1. All contestants must be at least 14 but not older than 27 years of age by the date of the final competition. Contestants under the age of 18 must have written parental permission to enter the contest.

2. Legal residents of Humboldt County are eligible to compete in this competition. In addition full time students (between 14 & 27 years of age) enrolled at HSU or College of the Redwoods are also eligible to enter the competition.  All contestants are required to prove eligibility. 

3. All entries must be register to participate. 

4. Business concept questions must be submitted through the competition websiteby  to be eligible to participate in the video elevator pitch competition.

5. If invited to Phase II, upload a 60-90 second elevator pitch video to Youtube and submit the link to through the competition website.

6. Participants must be physically present to compete in the final presentation.  Each presentation is to be 3 to 5 minutes in length.

7.  Each entrant must grant the Business & Entrepreneurship Center (BEC) the right to use and display contestants pictures and ideas for BEC marketing purposes.

8.  Each entrant is limited to one entry.

9.  By registering you are opting-in to receive all YEP Business Plan Competition information and other YEP related materials. 

10. Contestants cannot enter or copy an existing business.  In addition individual/team’s business concept plan must represent their original work.  Individual/team members must sign a certification to this effect.

Questions?  Call Kathy Miller at the BEC / Decade of Difference (707) 445-7007 or email her at kathymiller@humboldt.k12.ca.us