MyEDmatch.com, a startup created by EMBA alumna Alicia Herald, is a contestant on Dream Big America a national radio show that promotes entrepreneurship. Listeners are asked to vote for the startup they would like to see succeed. You can check out the competition and vote for Alicia’s company, myEDmatch.com, that she started planning while a student at Olin.
If Alicia and myEDmatch win, the start-up receives assistance in the form of mentorship, crowdfunding, and seed money.
Voting is open through 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday, July 10. Vote for Alicia and myEDmatch today! Voting is by text (Text DBA to 612-22-DREAM (612-223-7326 once voting is live) or via the DreamBigAmerica.us website.
Alicia was a member of the inaugural Kansas City Executive MBA class. While working for Teach for America, she had a dream that is now a reality: myEDmatch. The business is a job-matching site that matches good-fit educators and schools. It’s an easier, more effective way to connect educators and schools with similar goals and beliefs about education, and offers an information-rich environment for teachers and schools to learn about each other during the job-search and hiring process.
Dream Big America’s ™ mission is to provide a modern-day platform for entrepreneurs across America to learn, interact, and to provide the resources needed to get great ideas to the market. Importantly, its mission is to allow great ideas, great American Dreams, to make their way to our communities, into our markets, onto our computers, and more.
Dream Big America airs each Tuesday at 9:10am to 9:40am EDT on Doug Stephan’s Good Day Program (www.dougstephan.com), syndicated to 485 markets across the United States with a weekly listening audience of 3.5 million. In addition to being broadcast on the radio, the Dream Big America Show can be heard via live podcast on the DreamBigAmerica.us website.
Voting begins immediately after the show at approximately 10:00 am EDT and continues for 28 hours until 2:00 pm EDT each Wednesday. Voting is by text (Text DBA to 612-22-DREAM (612-223-7326 once voting is live) or via the DreamBigAmerica.us website. The winner of each weekly show is announced each Thursday on the Good Day Show at 9:50am EDT.
