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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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Sent by Heesun Lho on 13 January 2010, 01:49AM

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    Project on how to make a system that might optimize the IT leadership and organizational infrastructures for SMEs. Since the green field no longer exists in any SMEs a new method to apply optimal solutions to this segment needs to be developed.

  • Dobre&Sons Electronics

    D&S Electronics is offering a new product that stops Alternative Current (AC) electrical engines from burning/breaking. The product qualities: is simpler, cheaper and more effective than the existing solutions that are addressing the same problem.

  • ClassOwl

    A nice place for schools.

  • STARTit

    Our goal is to become a world-class network of entrepreneurs where we help each other to start and develop our own businesses.

  • Unmelt

    Unmelt is real-time social polling.