Congratulations to Ed Johnson for winning! Mr. Johnson’s Life-Changing-Chair is a brilliant idea, winning with 56 % of the votes. Check out more about this chair here.

Thank you to everyone who came out and for everyone who pitched! We’re looking forward to Will This Float? 2010!

A special thanks to our sponsors ETSU, ETSU Research Foundation, Wellmont Health System, the City of Johnson City, CenturyLink and all area chambers of commerce!

Event Details

• Date: 19 November 2009
• Time: 5:30 p.m. till the last boat floats
• Where: at The Bus Pit in downtown Kingsport, Tennessee

Will This Float? is part of Global Entrepreneurship Week – 16-22 November

We are most interested in ideas in line with the flowing FLOAT criteria:

Few or no direct competitors (novel idea)
Low adoption/switching costs for users
On-time (timely entry to market)
Addresses unfilled need or want/solves a real problem (useful)
Target market is identified and large

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