{"id":5839,"date":"2017-06-08T10:03:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/article\/\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T10:03:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:03:57","slug":"fast-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/fast-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"EIGERlab FastPitch competition set for October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5888\" src=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fastpitch-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"615\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fastpitch-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fastpitch-1-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fastpitch-1-768x394.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fastpitch-1-1024x525.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fastpitch-1-260x133.jpg 260w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fastpitch-1-50x26.jpg 50w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/fastpitch-1-146x75.jpg 146w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>ROCKFORD, Illinois \u2013 The Northern Illinois University EIGERlab will hold its 11th annual FastPitch Competition on October 4, giving entrepreneurs from across the region three minutes to convince judges to invest in their idea.<\/p>\n<p>The EIGERlab competition was launched before ABC\u2019s \u201cShark Tank\u201d and organizers now market the event as \u201cShark Tank\u201d without the bite.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5567 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FastPitch_logo-300x75.jpg\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FastPitch_logo-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FastPitch_logo-768x191.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FastPitch_logo-1024x254.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FastPitch_logo-930x231.jpg 930w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FastPitch_logo-800x199.jpg 800w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FastPitch_logo-1200x298.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FastPitch_logo-600x149.jpg 600w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/FastPitch_logo.jpg 1272w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" \/>This year, entrepreneurs will be competing for a first-place prize of $5,000. EIGERlab invites ideas that are in the startup or pre-startup phase and high school and college students are welcome as well.<\/p>\n<p>Thinker has been honored over the years to work with a few of the FastPitch winners, including Stacy McCaskill\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fishwithme.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fishwithme.net<\/a>, which is becoming the FaceBook of fishing without the politics, and Nicole Sdao\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nonprofitthrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NonprofitTHRIVE.com<\/a>, which is a national platform to connect volunteers to needy nonprofits and track the amount of work they donate.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 winner was Michelle Gast of Cary, Illinois, and her <a href=\"http:\/\/livebeautility.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recoup BEAUTISCOOP<\/a>, a dual-ended beauty spatula designed to scoop every last drop of beauty and personal care products out of their tight-necked containers.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to learn more about the competition, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eigerlab.org\/fastpitch-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eigerlab.org\/fastpitch-competion<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKFORD, Illinois \u2013 The Northern Illinois University EIGERlab will hold&hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/fast-pitch\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}