Stanford Innovation Tournament 2008
Your challenge is to use an assigned, everyday object to create as much "value" as possible. The mystery object will be revealed during the Stanford Entrepreneurship Week Kickoff event. Students from around the world are invited to participate.
| Group type: | Competition |
| Focus: | Ideas |
| Organizer: | University Program |
| Funding: | Corporate Sponsors, University Support |
| Industries: | Biotech, Cleantech, Computing, Education, Entertainment, Financial, Food and Drink, Gaming, Health, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Media, Nanotech, Real Estate, Retail, Sports, Travel |
| Location: | Stanford, CA, USA |
| Website: | http://eweek.stanford.edu/2... |
ABOUT US
Download the Innovation Tournament Official Rules.
We will reveal the specific challenge on Friday, Feb 22 during the launch of Stanford Entrepreneurship Week at 4:00 PM PST, at Memorial Auditorium.
Students are encouraged to form teams to take on the challenge. Teams can be of any size.
Teams should sign up for email updates on the Entrepreneurship Week main page so that they get important updates during the week.
Teams have five days to complete the challenge.
All submissions must be in video format, must be three minutes or less, and less than 100 MB. We have a YouTube Group for all of the submissions. For more information on uploading and submitting your video, explore these pages.
Videos will be evaluated based on the content and creativity, not video production quality.
All videos will be viewable by the general public.
Stanford Students
Stanford students participating in the Innovation Tournament are eligible to win experiential prizes such as:
Handmade guitar plus an afternoon with Deloitte's Financial Advisory Services Partner
A day of sailing on the San Francisco Bay on a 36' yacht provided and skippered by Club Nautique
Box seats to Sharks game - Donated by Deloitte
Dinner party at Teresa Briggs' home with Deloitte Silicon Valley Leadership (she is the Managing Partner of Deloitte's Silicon Valley practice)
Meet Deloitte's Global leaders, hear Al Gore speak in person, and enjoy cocktails and dinner at Deloitte's World Meeting at Stanford University
Lunch and Deathball at Tim Draper's House
Dinner at Google with Kevin Systrom (Google Analytics)
The renowned Guy Kawasaki will blog about the most innovative submission
Become a VC for a Day with Highland Capital Partner
Shadow an ER Doctor, who is also a VC
Have lunch with Orbit Baby Founders (also Stanford alums)
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Abhishek Daiya
majoring in ICT at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
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Ricky Yean
Taiwanese-American, 20, Economics major and Computer Science minor, involved with BASES, Blyth Fund, Stanford VC Club, Alpha Kappa Psi Fraternity, startups, blogs, Stanford Admit Weekend, Stanford Peer Mentorship, East Palo Alto Boys and Girls Club
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Evan Kincade
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Ehab Amer
Well I currently dont have much to tell (till 25/11/2008) coz I'm currently doing my time in the military service. after that I'll have my freedom back (relatively :D) & will fill in all abt my bio (as if there is much to tell :D)
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dingly
tu dein ding on dingly
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Cascade Clean Energy
A wastewater treatment system that simultaneously cleans waters and generates electricity
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ClassOwl
A nice place for schools.
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Mochi Media
Mochi Media is the world's largest online games advertising network. Within the Mochi Media suite of products are MochiBot and MochiAds, which were designed for game developers and publishers to monetize, track, and virally distribute Flash games.
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Grooveshark
Grooveshark is a web-based peer-to-peer network where members can listen to any song in the world for free, meet fellow music lovers and discover new music.
i want this..
A day of sailing on the San Francisco Bay on a 36' yacht provided and skippered by Club Nautique
looks cool
Enter the Innovation Tournament: Dont miss the Kick-off event in Memorial Auditorium, Stanford University at 4 PM