Entrepreneurs sell their skills, win pitch awards

NEW BEDFORD – Entrepreneurship for All, or EforAll, hosted a Sell Your Skills Pitch Contest on April 4 at Fort Taber Community Center in New Bedford.

Startup businesses were chosen to give two-and-a-half-minute pitches for cash prizes.

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Judges included Liz Voss of South Eastern Economic Development Corp.; Ruth Chicca of Williams Estate and Financial Group of New Bedford; Deven Robitaille of the SouthCoast Chamber of Commerce; and Weston Faulkner of Faulkner & Associates.

First place and $1,000 went to Cape Cod Nail Co. of Sandwich, Mass., a mobile nail salon owned by Sarah Mason; Carissa Wills-DeMello of Westport won second place and $750, as well as a Fan Favorite award and another $500, with herbal company Bilo Herbs; third place and $500 went to Old Time Fiddle Lessons Online and Jeffrey Angeley of Mattapoisett, Mass.; and another Fan Favorite award and $500 went to Brooke Baptiste of Reggae on West Beach, who runs a multi-generational music event in New Bedford funded in part by the city’s parks and recreation department.

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Based in Lowell, Mass., the accelerator program also has locations in Fall River and New Bedford.

Susan Shalhoub is a PBN contributing writer.