1. What is the typical size of the check? I paused the video (http://www.masschallenge.org/) at the end to note that most checks were $50k and one was $100k. Are there smaller/larger amounts?
2. Getting votes and endorsements: They want startups to get votes from general people to improve their chances of getting selected. This is a bad idea. It is crowd-sourcing herd mentality. I think that is a waste of time for the startup. I saw a post (http://www.masschallenge.org/blog/how-make-it-masschallenge-...) about the things a company did to get those points and I would rather spend that time on the business. So if we get a 0 on each of those is there a chance that we will get through?
Thanks. I think that what they are doing is fantastic barring [2].