Ready to Hustle on the Tampa StartUpBus
Bonita Springs, FL, March 3, 2012Eric J. Gall, an Estero resident, will join a Florida team vying with teams from nine other cities across the country trying to develop a business during a 72-hour bus ride to Austin, Texas.
Eric, a Business Intermediary with Florida Business Exchange and a Managing Partner of the local broadband start-up C3 Connect, will be part of a national competition called StartupBus. Each bus consists of a group of strangers who will team up on their way to the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. The teams will have 72 hours to conceive, build and launch a business.
Once the buses reach Austin, multiple teams on each bus will pitch their business concepts to venture capitalists and investors. The winning team is guaranteed a $1M investment.
More information about the competition is available at startupbus.com. The bus is described as “a community of hackers, hustlers and hipsters passionate about startups.” In technical terms, a hacker is a computer programmer or coder, a hustler is a business development person and a hipster is a web, print or video designer. Gall expects to use his 25 plus years of business experience as a hustler, i.e., business development to assist with building, promoting and launching the business plan for either an idea of his own or another team's idea he believes has a better shot at winning.
About Eric J. Gall
Eric manages the Southwest Florida Office of Florida Business Exchange, Inc. and is a Managing Partner of wireless broadband startup C3 Connect. Eric has over 25 years of business management and ownership experience in Michigan and Florida. He has intermediated or participated in numerous small, family-owned business transactions as well as mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, spin-outs and divestitures of multi-million dollar operations.
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