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The Awesome Foundation Offers Cash for Crazy Ideas

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26 Jan 2011 28 views
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That crazy idea simmering on the back your brain could nab you a bag full of cash.

If it's awesome.

The newly formed Toronto Chapter of the Awesome Foundation is now accepting wild ideas and crackpot schemes. The best of the bunch will get a paper bag stuffed with $1,000.

"It's about turning random flashes of half-baked genius into reality," says Matt Thompson, the Toronto chapter's Trustee of Awesome.

(READ the story in the Toronto Star)

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