Sponsor approval time...!?

[JaneYoung]

Could you provide a little bit of information?
Do you have involved students on the team right now?
Mentors?
Parents?

Reason being, these are the people who will help solicit sponsors.
Getting organized as a team will help everything run more smoothly with the business aspect of it and with the build/competition.

Also, KathieK has provided some valuable information for you in post 10. Read that and share that info with your team.

[danshaffer]

we just brought them into our shop, game them a few demos and they took out the checkbook (an individual sponsor, not a corporate, so no bureaucracy to go from. plus he'd already read about us in the papers, so it wasn't really an hour).
Generally, though, the bigger the company, the longer it will take.

[alexvasile]

Originally Posted by danshaffer

Generally, though, the bigger the company, the longer it will take.

I'll keep that in mind.

Thanks for the replies guys!

[Akash Rastogi]

Yea, I'll agree that a bigger company will take longer. But in our case, Siemens Coproration gave us a check in about a month and a half. (Not too bad for such a big company) We also have food donations from a local Subway and Applebees.