By Rusty Leskiv

For those of you who haven’t heard of 5 Across, here’s the scoop. 5 Across is an informal gathering of entrepreneurs, investors and service providers from Lexington, KY. Each 5 Across meeting features presentations from local entrepreneurs who pitch their ideas to a panel of judges. There are 5 pitches, 5 minutes per pitch, a 5pm start time, and a $500 prize to the winning pitch. The panel of judges decides the final winner but the audience will be able to participate by submitting their votes through their mobile device.

This event will be on Wednesday, Feb. 23rd, starting at 5pm, at Awesome Inc.

As always there will be food and drinks provided. The cost is $5.

Please RSVP at http://5across.eventbrite.com

This month’s event will feature the following pitches:

Paul Sullivan will be presenting “Players Golf Network”, which is an online community where participants can organize, participate in, and share the experience of competitive golf tournaments, independent of location.

Lamar Wilson, John Meister, and Lafe Taylor will pitching Pheeva, which is an internet gaming entertainment company.

Erick Sandstad and Lauren Miller will be pitching OwlDaily.com, which is evolving into the shopping Mall for coupons, gift cards and freebies for all 14,000 local shops.

Michael A. Hartman will present Frogdice, Inc. which creates online computer games.

Karl Beisel will be pitching the Lexington Sports & Social Club, which will organize and operate recreational sports leagues and social events for adults over 21.

Be sure to come out to this first event of 2011, enjoy the food and drinks, socialize with investors, entrepreneurs and other like-minded people, and hear these entrepreneurs pitch their exciting new business ideas and take home a prize of $500.

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