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BIT-2011: Make an investor believe in you!

Another competition for startups has begun accepting applications! This time a big prize pool and many interesting opportunities for the development of your projects in the global market!





image The success of the previous BITs is connected with the fact that this competition allowed to unite students and employees of leading technical universities, scientific organizations and business schools to bring innovative ideas to the market.

The first BIT competition was organized with the support of MIT Russia Business and Technology

Initiative in 2003 on the basis of leading technical and economic Russian universities: the Highest

School of Economics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Financial Academy at

Government of the Russian Federation.

Now BIT - federal competition. In the season 2010-2011. in the framework of the BIT

“subsidiary” competitions HSE 10K (SU-HSE), BIT-Siberia, BIT-North-West, BIT-Volga,

BIT-Far East, BIT-Ural, BIT-South, BIT-Baikal and BIT-Kazakhstan. Any member can

apply as in "your" regional / university, and in the all-Russian BIT.

The BIT Supervisory Board includes representatives of the main sponsors of the competition, leaders

of the Russian innovation community, as well as the winners of the BIT previous competition

seasons that form the BIT Winners Club. Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Since December 2010, BIT has become Richard Kivel - President of the MIT Enterprise Forum.



Participating in a BIT is honorable and helpful.

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The goal of the BIT competition is to initiate the creation of new technology companies

their investment attractiveness, to bring to the Russian and international venture capital

markets and promote the development of a culture of entrepreneurship in the Russian sector of high

tech.

The prize fund of the BIT-2011 is 5 million rubles (including prize money).

funds of regional competitions BIT). In addition to money, the prize fund of the competition is filled

non-monetary rewards and prizes, in particular, the opportunity to participate in

International Business Plan Competitions IBTEC (Berkeley, California) and MassChallenge (Boston,

Massachusetts).



As part of the BIT, an educational program is conducted that allows participants

gain the necessary skills to create a successful business, as well as activities for

team building (team building), allowing entrepreneurs to find useful

team members.

However, the main thing in the BIT, as in the Olympic movement, is not a victory, but participation, an opportunity

join the entrepreneurial ecosystem. By participating in the competition, each team will be able to

acquire innovative and entrepreneurial skills, get competent feedback

communication from project mentors and judges of the competition, as well as to “light up” before potential

investors (the BIT judiciary includes representatives of the Russian and American

communities of venture investors, business angels and entrepreneurs). The benefits of this will be

undoubted. Well, if you win ...



How to become a member of BIT-2011



To participate in the competition, you must register on the official website of the competition BIT

www.bit-konkurs.ru and fill out a preliminary application there.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/114238/



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