Backbone Start Me Up Innovation Campaign

The 2nd Annual Backbone

$100,000

Start Me Up

Innovation Campaign

Raising innovative entrepreneurs to the next level

$100,000 in prizes: cash, business services, products, mentoring
and a year of media coverage

Entrants: innovative Canadian technology start-ups
with a great business plan and less than $2 million in annual sales

Entries closed 11:59 PM EST on March 30, 2013

Pitch-Off event

Toronto on May 6, 2013
at 2:00 pm EST

2013 Innovation Campaign


Winners	Top 10 Finalists	Pitch-Off Event


Blog	Prizes	Testimonials


Judges	Rules	Campaign Questions


Sponsors	Supporters

Campaign timing

2012

Follow-Up Winner Stories - Online and Print May 2012 – May 2013

2013

(dates may change - check back here)

Registration Launch Feb 25, 2013

Applications Accepted Feb 25 – Mar 30, 2013

Application Reminder in Print Feb 26, 2013

Judging Apr 5 – Apr 12, 2013

Pitch Off/Awards Event May 6, 2013

Winner Cover Story - Online/Print Jun 12, 2013

Winner Follow-Up Stories - Online/Print Jun 2013 – Jun 2014

The campaign is consistent with Backbone’s mandate of inspiring innovation and helping companies learn from other businesses, says Steve Dietrich, Publisher of Backbone magazine. “The process and the content becomes a live case study, which not only creates a valuable profile for the winner but will also provide great stories for our readers. It is also an opportunity for Backbone and our sponsors to further Canada’s overall competitiveness on the world stage.”

2012 Innovation Campaign