The audience listens to presentations at the demo night for 48Hour Launch Chattanooga, where hopeful entrepreneurs gave pitches for their business idea Sunday night at Track 29.AND THE WINNER IS• The Un-Foundation: Micro-grant foundation• Slawsa: A local combination of slaw and salsa• Job Ninja: A student-focused jobs websiteSource: The Company Lab
Chattanooga’s 48-hour launch propelled moneymaking ideas from concept to creation over the weekend, culminating in two dozen pitches at downtown’s Track 29 venue as a crowd of more than 100 tweeted their approval.
Dreamers, developers and local investors spent two sleepless nights hammering out the next big thing, borrowing ideas and talent from each other as the sun rose and set.
Bullpens of 20-somethings toiled in shifts at the offices of CreateHere on Main Street, the eerie white glow of their laptops providing most of the light in the whiteboard-lined rooms.
It wasn’t only a race against time, it was a coffee- and beer-fueled rush to beat the team at the next table for a shot at $10,000 in cash and business services.