Official as of today – The winner of the Great Startup Contest is Nathaniel Elliott! Congratulations Nathaniel!

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Recently I shared a story about the startup Zaarly that went from idea to successful startup in 3 months! The startup was born out of the Los Angeles Startup Weekend in February. Many of you who read this blog are familiar with the startup weekend. We have had two in the Indianapolis area that have spawned some pretty cool companies and ideas.

The Zaarly story is brilliant because within six hours, Bo Fishback, former VP of Entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation, Ian Hunter, and Eric Koester, had developed an idea for the world’s first cash marketplace. If you want to switch for better seats at a concert… name the price.

Brilliant.

My friends at Business on Main and I  wanted to get a better idea of what YOU feel makes a great startup.  I have been through the world of the startup and have my opinion on what you have to do to make something work but I want your opinion.

In order to facilitate the conversation, I will be giving away a $100 giftcard from Apple for the best answer.  The contest ends at 12:00pm on Wednesday, August 31st. We will pick a winner on Thursday, September 1.

Here is what it will take to win.

The More Comments and Likes the Better! – If you notice on my comment section (below this post and the image) it allows you to like a comment and respond to that comment. The more responses a comment gets, the better. The more thumbs up a comments gets… the better.

This is going to be a contest. Go ahead and post a comment below on this post, get your friends to comment, and like!