What prizes will the finalists receive?
The three finalists will each receive:
- $20,000 cash to grow their business
- Free Yahoo! Web Hosting services (valued at $11.95/month) for 2 years which includes:
- Hosting of your web site
- 24-hour toll-free phone support
- Unlimited disk space, which allows you to build as many web pages as you want
- Unlimited data transfer, which allows you to support as many visitors as you want
- Unlimited email storage
- Up to $5,000 in value provided by Yahoo! Small Business partners towards the completion of a new web site for finalists including:
- Technical expertise on Yahoo! Small Business products, including Yahoo! Web Hosting and/or Yahoo! Merchant Solutions
- Guidance and technical work to help build their web site
- A one-hour consultation session, via telephone, with one top-level executive, to be completed within six months following the selection of the three program finalists.
- A one-hour consultation session, via telephone, with Carolyn Kepcher, CEO of fwm, to be completed within six months following the selection of the three program finalists.
- Six one-hour consultation sessions, via telephone or in person (location pending), with a minimum of three other business experts selected by the Sponsor and fwm, to be completed within six months following the selection of the three program finalists.
- Promotional support from Yahoo!, including publicity on the program microsite, to be promoted by Yahoo! Small Business, as well as promotional support from fwm, including editorial coverage on fwmconnect.com.