This year’s BEA is featuring a “Book Expo Challenge” contest focused on start-ups that’s a hybrid of floor display space and a chance at two prizes. For $599 registrants/contestants get a table and two chairs in a little “Startup Alley” section of the trade show floor (inside the Digital Discovery Zone). Registered companies also get to pitch their propositions to a panel of judges — Dawn Barber (NY Tech Meetup); Brian Cohen (NY Angels); Dominique Raccah (Sourcebooks); Jordan Bettman (Bain Capital Ventures); and David Roland (Ingram Content Group Ventures — on Thursday, May 29. The judges can award a $10,000 […]
