Startup Funding with Innovation Challenges

Innovation gives engineers and entrepreneurs the opportunity to change the world and create a fulfilling business. Transforming an idea into reality requires capital that many people do not have. Innovation challenges provide a new path.
Everyone thinks they have a million or billion dollar idea. If you had the skills, mentors, funding, connections, or whatever “if” … you would be successful.
The “ifs” are imagined obstacles.
They are excuses for inaction because the path exists.
When your idea solves a real problem, there is a customer out in the world who wants the problem solved so badly (at a core mission level) they will pay for the development just so it exists. With the right problem, your “if” becomes “when”.
The reason I love these innovation challenges is they fill those gaps and cancel the excuses you have for starting. The innovation challenges I am about to present provide funding but also connect you to mentors, manufacturers, industry leaders, and more to fuel your success.
So what is out there?
How do we move away from a culture of excuses to a culture of innovation?