5 days to get a piece of 1.5 million rubles. in web ready contest

This year, there was almost room for technology startups, there were much more opportunities to take part in special competitions and fun events like Startup Weekend , Hack Days , Start.com , StartupPoint , NevaCamp , etc. And in this post I would like to tell you about open competition Web Ready Internet Projects , which has been running for the second year in a row and plans to go through the next, and through the next, etc. etc.


It was already written about him here, and well , and great , and not very much - and at the same time, we took the most of the recommendations of habrayers, contestants, jury and experts. This year, Web Ready has become even better, and all because:

• the total prize fund of the competition has already increased to 1,500,000 rubles.
• We singled out two nominations - “The Best Project at the Planting Stage” and “The Best Startup” to distinguish between business ideas and finished products.
• The composition of the jury and the expert council increased significantly (among them Alexander Andreev, Vitaly Belik, Sergey Belousov, Alexander Galitsky, Igor Kaloshin, Nikolai Mityushin, Felix Muchnik and many other gurus of investment and technological projects)
• preparatory session for semifinalists improved and expanded before presentations to investors
• On December 2, the final of the competition will become not just a place to determine the winners, but also a platform where any representative of a startup can communicate with venture capital investors and business angels.
• this time there will be an online broadcast of the final (i.e. it will also be open) and an online voting for the audience award

Themes of the projects even now have retained their relevance.

1. Social media
2. SaaS and Cloud Computing
3. Mobile technology
4. Development of computer games on the Internet
5. Web development
6. Virtualization
7. eCommerce

Another bulletin text in which I will talk about the benefits that you can get by participating in Web Ready (after all, money is not always the main incentive to do something):

• You will be able to communicate with potential investors interested in working with good Internet projects.
• semi-finalist projects will receive quality feedback from leading experts on the elements of a business plan, monetization and marketing strategies, public speaking and presentation to investors
• you will become even more famous in the startup community and in the media
• receive a cash prize for the development of your project, as well as other interesting things
• You can take part in the Start in Garage educational program that has already become a hit.

If by this time you have an overwhelming desire to apply, then you can do it right now . If you know your project well, you will spend about ten minutes to fill in all the fields. The application can be submitted until midnight October 24, 2010.

By the way, this time the Web Ready final will be organized as a separate major event, which includes an exhibition of finalist projects of both nominations, special blocks as the VC corner (one-on-one meetings with a venture capitalist, where the startup artist is given a minute elevator pitch to tell about his project and if he is good, he is given a business card ...), Angel Investor Zone (a place in the form of a cafe where you can go up to the business angel and talk about the financing of the project). And, of course, a lot of networking is expected between startups and investors!
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So, follow our news, those who will pass to the next stage of the competition and register for the final and student conference Web Ready Day. We are sure that you have cool projects that you managed to develop in the previous year and which are not ashamed to show! It is full of ideas departing from the universe. Good luck.