The Projeсt's Corner campaign, referring to the famous Speaker's Corner spot in London Hyde Park, will last until midnight (GMT) of 31 July and is supposed to help beginner startupers to collect funds and get publicity.
The programme is organised by the blockchain-based social network Steemit and the crowdfunding platform Crypto Coins Exchange Denmark (CCEDK). The projects presented on Steemit will draw Steem-dollars by receiving upvotes and getting comments from the network users who would evaluate the proposals.
To apply, participants need to submit a brief description of the project in a comment to the post on the Steemit blog. Then they are supposed to spread the word among their friends, encouraging them to register on Steemit and start voting and commenting on the project. Besides, the participants need to make tweets with a link to the project no less than 5 times a day. Presumably, the idea would be noticed by potential customers or investors who may vote for or/and provide feedback on the project.
As the organisers claim, there will be no losers in this competition except for those who will not get any upvotes at all. Due to the platform’s design, users’ voting will provide the participant projects with some funding. When the vote count is over, the four selected leading projects will take part in one more contest in the last week of August. The prize will be a full-scale crowdfunding campaign (ICO) at CCDK Open Ledger which will last two months. The organisers promise to provide the winner with “full media coverage and worldwide attention.”