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SV Factor

The Silicon Valley Factor Competition

Group type: Portfolio Competition
Organizer: Non-profit

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What is The Silicon Valley Factor Competition?

Innovation Center Denmark is excited to present The Silicon Valley Factor Competition, a competition focused on tracking the hottest Silicon Valley startups and measuring their performance. Participants pick five companies from a pool of startups as they compete with fellow students and some surprise guests. Predict companies’ success and learn the ways of the Valley through blogs and media sources to update your strategy during the game and stay on top.
The winner will be the one whose five companies have the largest positive delta, measured by their YouNoodle score over three months. The competition will also be taking place at Stanford University.
Participation in this competition is free but a Younoodle account is required.

Prize

Winners of ‘SV Factor’ from Denmark will be flown to Silicon Valley to attend Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University in February.

Winners of ‘SV Factor’ from Stanford will be flown to Denmark and the Venture Cup Finals in Copenhagen, Denmark in June.

Both events will allow students to network with hundreds of entrepreneurs, investors, educational leaders, policymakers and students who are all passionate about entrepreneurship and promoting it around the world.

Timeline

September 24, 2009 – Registration opens
October 5, 2009 – Registration closes at midnight, California time (UTC-8)
November 23, 2009 – (optional) Changes to companies can be made till midnight on the 23rd, California time (UTC-8).
January 11 (UTC-8), 2010 – Competition closed
January 18, 2010 – Winners announced
February 22 – 28, 2010 – E-Week at Stanford University
June 2010 - Venture Cup Finals in Copenhagen

Rules & Eligibility

• Participation is free
• Must be a current student
• Must be from a Danish institution or Stanford University
• (Danish students) Have access to visa to travel to the US
• (Danish students) Available to travel to the US in February 22, 2010 – February 28, 2010
• In case of a tie, the winner is the one that registered to participate first.


Companies available throughout the competition (more information is available once you register to participate)

a123systems, AdMob, Better Place, BigFishGames, Blekko, Bloom Energy, Boku, BrightKite, Cuil, DISQUS, Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, Fisker, FourSquare, Freebase, Getgambit, GetSatisfaction, GitHub, GraffitiGeo, Heroku, HeyZap, Inrix, Jajah, JustinTV, Kosmix, Livescribe, Loopt, Mint, Mission Motors, Mochi, Ning, Offerpal, openDNS, Palantir, PBworks, Playdom, Posterous, ReMail, RethinkDB, RockYou, Scoopler, Scribd, Slide, TheFind, Three Rings, Trialpay, Twilio, Twitter, Weebly, Xobni, Yammer, Yola, your.flowingdata, Zynga

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And the winner is...

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  • Son Ca Vu

    Bachelor Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University, Accenture, Cooliris

  • Thomas Jensen

    Mr. Jensen is a co-founder of Enterprise Futures Network. He has more than 20 years of experience in entrepreneurship, business and technology consulting. He has founded venture-backed startups and led major clean technology consulting practices.

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  • Multiaerobics

    State-of-the-art tool for physical health professionals helping them to create specific and interactive web applications supporting, motivating and giving their customers real time feedback on the physical performance at home.

  • Electric Man Team

    The idea behind Electric Man is creating a platform in the steel industry, especially the metal poles sector. There is a new concept in Europe and in Asia. The firm is a consulting company in the area that will help clients optimize their decisions.

  • The Human Potential Inc.

    By employing educated volunteers and encouraging community involvement, The Human Potential Inc. strives to reform education, grant social mobility to the working poor, and reform harmful business practices in the environment.

  • softicator

    See how satisfying an enterprise software solution has been for its customers. Softicator provides intelligent reports that tell you if the software you'll buy will be the best choice.

  • Cambridge Temperature Concepts

    (the geeky bit) physiological temperature datalogging and wireless transmission (the application) ovulation detection for identification of the fertile window to assist couples in starting a family (the business bit) with 1 in 7 couples having...