Taking home the first prize check though, should give the fledgling company a good head start.
My brother's band shone above all other competitors and won the first prize.
One other sure thing is that when the first prize-winner is announced in March 2014, it won't be going to Hilary Mantel, as she doesn't have a book out this year that will be eligible.
The roster of recently born awards (see table, next page) expanded last month with the first Prize for Civil Courage, a creation of John Train, a 72-year-old New York investment counsel, and his Northcote Parkinson Fund.
In direct response to the negative image of youth in the media, Peace First as announced the Peace First prize which will inspire, celebrate, and connect young people who are making a real difference in creating more peaceful and just communities.
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The first domestic prize of the season is up for grabs, although given the sheer fervour of some supporters you would think they were fighting for life itself.
It is the first time the prize has been divided among more than two named individuals and only the third time in the prize's 93-year history that a committee member has broken ranks publicly and quit.
In December 2011, Valencia Community College from Orlando, FL was announced as the first Aspen Prize winner and Valencia is now a model for other community colleges across the nation.
The first Literature Prize will be awarded in March 2014 for books published between January and December 2013.
MacCready took on the first Kremer prize -- for flying a figure eight -- in 1977 with his Gossamer Condor craft.
They almost certainly learned it from Ragnar Frisch, a Norwegian economist, who with Tinbergen shared the first Nobel prize in economics in 1969.
In 1990 he and a colleague, John Krutilla, won the first Volvo environmental prize, the next best thing in his discipline to a Nobel.
She is the first female recipient of the prize since Kathleen Jamie in 2004, and the first American woman to receive the honour.
"That Van Cliburn won the first ever Tchaikovsky Prize in Moscow in 1958, the middle of the Cold War, is testimony to his prodigious gifts, " he said.
It is the first time the prestigious art prize has been held in Northern Ireland, and hopes are high in next year's City of Culture that it will be a big hit.
This year saw the Theatre Awards' first prize voted for by the public, for best touring production.
He is the first Swede to receive the prize since authors Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson shared it in 1974.
The three laureates were the first women to win the prize since Wangari Maathai of Kenya, the 2004 Peace laureate, who died last September.
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Thayil is the first Indian to win the prize, awarded annually to a work of fiction "inspired by the South Asian region, people, culture and diaspora".
They were the first women to win the prize since Wangari Maathai of Kenya, who died last month, was named as the laureate in 2004.
It will also be the first time a prize for food and drink writing is awarded.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is among those who have won the first Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
This is the first time the UNESCO-Sharjah Prize rewards a personality from Latin America.
When the industry gave out awards for new technology that year, the signal took first prize.
The winner of the annual prize first painted Jeroen when he was seven and has pictured him on 17 occasions.
Banville is the first Irish winner of the Booker Prize since Roddy Doyle won with Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha in 1993.
The question has consumed the country since Orhan Pamuk became the first Turk to win the Nobel prize for literature (or indeed any Nobel).
"It's the first major book prize to have no barriers and no borders - it's truly international, " prize founder Andrew Kidd told the BBC.
The teams were deemed to be conspiring to throw games to one another and planning to split the first and second prize money, or both.
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