Eager support for The Next Great West Virginia Business is here—it’s just waiting for The Next Great Entrepreneur to step up.
That support comes in the form of IgniteWV. It’s the latest incarnation of the business plan competition that started at WVU two decades ago and gradually grew to involve mentors and investors and to encompass colleges across the state, then high schools, then the public.
Quite a few successful launches have come out of it. Some are household names in Morgantown: Andrew White Guitars won in 2004–05, and Neighborhood Kombuchery was a winner in 2018–19. Some have moved to locations better suited to their niches—SwifTAG, a winner in 2016–17 for its RFID tracking system for laboratory animals, is now Pittsburgh-based SwiftSCIENCE. And there are others.
Read more:
https://morgantownmag.com/got-a-great-business-idea/