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They were the winners of a annual competition also sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation - the world’s largest foundation devoted to entrepreneurship. Actual EBay members were the judges and were allowed to select the winners across four categories.
As runner-ups, an additional entrepreneurs were given $5,000 each to pursue their plans for starting or growing a business on eBay.
For more details, visit:
http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/10/05/daily48.html