$250k grant thread
Posted June 26th, 2012 by miles to go
Chase bank is giving away 12 $250,000 grants to small businesses. Miles to go is in it and needs votes to get the 250 needed to qualify to be reviewed by a panel of judges.
Ben/ Fright-Rags is also doing this and needs votes and the best part, is you can vote for more than one company. So, please help us out and if anyone else is doing this, please post your name to be searched. takes about a min to do and it would help out both of our companies to be considered and voted for.
Instructions.
go to: https://www.missionsmallbusiness.com/
sign in with Facebook(I'm guessing its their voter fraud prevention)
search for the name of the company e.g. miles to go or fright-rags
click vote and done!
Ben/ Fright-Rags is also doing this and needs votes and the best part, is you can vote for more than one company. So, please help us out and if anyone else is doing this, please post your name to be searched. takes about a min to do and it would help out both of our companies to be considered and voted for.
Instructions.
go to: https://www.missionsmallbusiness.com/
sign in with Facebook(I'm guessing its their voter fraud prevention)
search for the name of the company e.g. miles to go or fright-rags
click vote and done!
Add Comment
36 Comments
PitchGrim said about 11 months ago
If you're voting for Fright-Rags don't forget the dash.
miles to go said about 11 months ago
miles to go said about 11 months ago
thanks pitch! I'm sure a ton of businesses submitted. if you get the 250, a team of business professionals review each of the submissions that got enough votes, so even being seen gives a chance. plus, 12 people win, so, thats not too bad.
miles to go said about 11 months ago
miles to go
fright-rags
Derisory Designs said about 11 months ago
miles to go said about 11 months ago
awesome. i will go do a vote for you as well.
8-bit ZOMBIE said about 11 months ago
Wish I would have known about this, haha.
AngrySpade said about 11 months ago
I've voted for all 4 already =)
sonar said about 11 months ago
EricAbstruse said about 11 months ago
Matt Borchert said about 11 months ago
DeKay. said about 11 months ago
AngrySpade said about 11 months ago
Just voted for you =)
miles to go said about 11 months ago
i just found out today. road, I'm sure you could get the votes in time. last i checked i was at 215 of the needed 250 and just started 6 hrs ago. people are willing to share on Facebook and such.
miles to go said about 11 months ago
expand my inventory, new designs, get old souls finally out and into production, hire someone(much needed), make new products i have wanted to do, promote, hit the trade shows properly and maybe buy a proper vehicle for miles to go so i could stop beating the hell out of mine and hit the road for festivals and events more often.
Paul Granese said about 11 months ago
miles to go said about 11 months ago
thanks paul. I'm only 8 votes away from qualifying.
Paul Granese said about 11 months ago
x Nau x said about 11 months ago
TwinSrpnt said about 11 months ago
miles to go said about 13 months ago
thanks! i just got home and saw that. I'm so humbled by everyones support and i hope the panel of people who look at the people with over 250 dig what i have. under 250 they don't even bother looking at your business.
fabianullstrom said about 11 months ago
DeKay. said about 11 months ago
Thanks, voted for everyone else
And Thanks to anyone that has voted for us so far!
Acid said about 11 months ago
Matt Borchert said about 11 months ago
Sounds like 250 votes gets you to the next stage of review.
fright-rags said about 11 months ago
And thanks to everyone here who voted so far!
heat. said about 11 months ago
miles to go said about 11 months ago
yeah, you need a minimum of 250 votes to be passed onto the next round where they have a panel of people review the companies to choose who gets the grants. its the foot in the door to make sure your company at least gets looked at.
miles to go said about 11 months ago
ben, i just sent out an email to my email list and i am sure yours is rather large as well. a lot of people emailed me back saying they voted. plus, unlike Facebook, it at least got to everyones inbox.
miles to go said about 11 months ago
please put comments and responses on the post about it.
https://www.facebook.com/milestogoclothing
Sol Amstutz said about 11 months ago
fright-rags said about 11 months ago
Thanks so much Greg! Yeah, I finally had a chance to send out an email to my list just now and we went from 175 votes to 330 in about five minutes, and it's still climbing. So crazy...and overwhelming. The outpouring of support I have no idea what they use as criteria from here on out, but I'm glad we were able to make it this far. Best of luck to you and I will make another mention on Facebook about voting for you when I post later this evening. More votes can't hurt, right?
DanielAndHisArt said about 11 months ago
HostileCityDesigns said about 11 months ago
Anyways...We really could use all of your help in qualifying for 250k grant program. Please just head over to https://www.missionsmallbusiness.com/ and cast your vote for "Hostile City Designs". Every vote counts. We need 212 more votes to qualify and only have 2 days left to get them so please lend a hand if you can, it only takes a few seconds.
NickThreadbird said about 11 months ago
Threadbird jumped on this bandwagon yesterday as well. We are in the process of trying to bring in some new equipment and something like this would be extremely helpful.
If you could search for us and vote that would be great. We are doing this last second and rushing to try and get enough votes.
PitchGrim said about 11 months ago
Just voted. Had no idea you guys were from Orlando.