Overview of contests online projects from America to Russia
Are you developing an Internet project? Looking for an investor? Want to get high-quality expertise of the project and recommendations for business development? Looking for new partners, customers and online community recognition? Then, this selection of contests for you.
Mass Challenge (America) - http://masschallenge.org/
The biggest startup competition in the world.
The main objective of the competition is to select the best projects and help them implement the idea. There are no restrictions for applying.
100 finalists are provided with all the resources for project implementation, and their mentor is attached.
Prize fund - $ 1 million
Project selection funnel:
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La Web (France) - http://leweb.net/
LeWeb gathers the most influential public in the Internet. Entrepreneurs, corporate executives, investors, the press and bloggers get together to focus on key issues and opportunities in the web market.
LeWeb '11 Startup Competition - a start-up competition at the conference. The final 3 best projects that create applications and products for the Social / Local / Mobile market (SoLoMo).
Deadline application - October 15, 2011.
Prize money - € 1 million
Startup Sauna (Finland) - http://startupsauna.com/
Startup Sauna is focused on technology startups that are at an early stage of development and are looking for initial funding, are considering possible ways to enter the market.
The event is organized by Aalto Venture Garage (a business incubator that accepts teams from Northern Europe) and Aalto Entrepreneurship Society (a community that helps students and novice developers in Northern Europe create successful startups). Startup Sauna selects the most promising startups in Northern Europe, the Baltic States and Russia and gathers the best teams together for the intensive 6-week Aalto Venture Garage program in Helsinki, which will begin on October 31, 2011.
Prize pool - The best team from each city will receive a grant to study in Helsinki under the Y-combinator program and € 1,000 for expenses.
Global Startup Competition in the framework of Biz Barcelona (Spain) - http://www.bizbarcelona.com/
Business Forum in Barcelona. The main task is to help entrepreneurs materialize their ideas and find new directions for business. A major event for Spain, annually attended by about 14 thousand people.
Global Startup Competition takes place within the framework of the forum, the jury selects projects at the seed stage. The winners receive a cash prize and the opportunity to present the project to investors around the world.
In more detail about the Forum wrote a post on Habré.
Web Ready (Russia) - http://www.web-ready.ru/
Russia's largest competition of projects in the field of modern Internet technologies with a final in the format of an investment forum. The main objective of the competition is to identify and promote the development of start-ups in the field of Internet technologies and create a platform for negotiations and transactions between projects and investors.
Applications for the competition are accepted in 2 main categories:
• “The best project at the seed stage” - business ideas, business plans or prototypes,
not publicly accessible.
• “Best Startup” - projects launched on the Internet that are at the initial stage of monetization and the formation of business processes for scaling.
This year, competition partners established their own additional nominations:
• “Game Ready” - nomination for game developers from Alawar Entertainment
• Nomination from EMC Ventures for projects in the field of Cloud Computing, Data Virtualization, etc.
Prize fund - 1.5 million rubles
Deadline application - October 18, 2011.
Summing up, I would like to note that participation in projects with competitions not only provides an opportunity to compete for the prize fund, present the project to investors and business angels, but is also a sign of the quality of your business, since most often jury members are founders and heads of departments of the largest technological companies. companies, representatives of venture funds and business angels.
Mass Challenge (America) - http://masschallenge.org/
The biggest startup competition in the world.
The main objective of the competition is to select the best projects and help them implement the idea. There are no restrictions for applying.
100 finalists are provided with all the resources for project implementation, and their mentor is attached.
Prize fund - $ 1 million
Project selection funnel:
')
La Web (France) - http://leweb.net/
LeWeb gathers the most influential public in the Internet. Entrepreneurs, corporate executives, investors, the press and bloggers get together to focus on key issues and opportunities in the web market.
LeWeb '11 Startup Competition - a start-up competition at the conference. The final 3 best projects that create applications and products for the Social / Local / Mobile market (SoLoMo).
Deadline application - October 15, 2011.
Prize money - € 1 million
Startup Sauna (Finland) - http://startupsauna.com/
Startup Sauna is focused on technology startups that are at an early stage of development and are looking for initial funding, are considering possible ways to enter the market.
The event is organized by Aalto Venture Garage (a business incubator that accepts teams from Northern Europe) and Aalto Entrepreneurship Society (a community that helps students and novice developers in Northern Europe create successful startups). Startup Sauna selects the most promising startups in Northern Europe, the Baltic States and Russia and gathers the best teams together for the intensive 6-week Aalto Venture Garage program in Helsinki, which will begin on October 31, 2011.
Prize pool - The best team from each city will receive a grant to study in Helsinki under the Y-combinator program and € 1,000 for expenses.
Global Startup Competition in the framework of Biz Barcelona (Spain) - http://www.bizbarcelona.com/
Business Forum in Barcelona. The main task is to help entrepreneurs materialize their ideas and find new directions for business. A major event for Spain, annually attended by about 14 thousand people.
Global Startup Competition takes place within the framework of the forum, the jury selects projects at the seed stage. The winners receive a cash prize and the opportunity to present the project to investors around the world.
In more detail about the Forum wrote a post on Habré.
Web Ready (Russia) - http://www.web-ready.ru/
Russia's largest competition of projects in the field of modern Internet technologies with a final in the format of an investment forum. The main objective of the competition is to identify and promote the development of start-ups in the field of Internet technologies and create a platform for negotiations and transactions between projects and investors.
Applications for the competition are accepted in 2 main categories:
• “The best project at the seed stage” - business ideas, business plans or prototypes,
not publicly accessible.
• “Best Startup” - projects launched on the Internet that are at the initial stage of monetization and the formation of business processes for scaling.
This year, competition partners established their own additional nominations:
• “Game Ready” - nomination for game developers from Alawar Entertainment
• Nomination from EMC Ventures for projects in the field of Cloud Computing, Data Virtualization, etc.
Prize fund - 1.5 million rubles
Deadline application - October 18, 2011.
Summing up, I would like to note that participation in projects with competitions not only provides an opportunity to compete for the prize fund, present the project to investors and business angels, but is also a sign of the quality of your business, since most often jury members are founders and heads of departments of the largest technological companies. companies, representatives of venture funds and business angels.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/130050/
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