Startup Show 2010

Submission closed

Contest rules

We are inviting startups from the following countries: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Poland, Hungary and Austria.

A professional jury will evaluate all submitted projects and will consider the idea, the execution, the chance of success, the business model and the feel.

The best 4 entries will have a chance present themselves directly to the WebExpo audience. That means we expect at least one member of finalist's team to present the project live during the conference.

The finalist startup presentations will consist of a 5 minutes pitch followed by 10 minutes of Q&A and a valuation by the jury.

The final voting is done by the audience and jury together. Top 3 winners will be announced at the end of the startup show at the WebExpo.

Register your startup before September 6th! The jury will select and publish the 4 finalists by September 13th.

  • The startup must be established in one of the countries mentioned above or at least 50 % of the startup founders must live & work there.
  • The service may not have been launched before 1st January 2009.
  • The service must be at least in limited beta and live on web.
  • We are looking for interesting, innovative and groundbreaking projects and can not accept common blogs, portals and content sites unless they have a distinctive edge.

Prizes for the best startups

  • Account for the advanced analytical system Yahoo Web Analytics plus an automated audit of the accuracy of implementation of Google Analytics by Optimics for the winner.
  • Hire of a virtual server for 3 years in the programs VDS Premium, VDS Profi and VDS Standard from Active24 for the top 3 winners.
  • 100, 50 and 2 x 25 credits (1 credit ~ € 1) from the photo stock service Pixmac for the top 4 finalists.
  • Guaranteed review of the top three startups for participation in the HackFwd program.
  • Direct promotion of the top startups to the second stage of the selection process of Openfund.
  • Opportunity for inclusion into Microsoft developer & business supporting programs WebsiteSpark, BizSpark and DreamSpark for all the participants.
  • 6 month participation in incubation program with rent of 20sqm office from South Moravian Innovation Centre for the winner. Services included:
    • assistance of creation of business plan and help with founding the company
    • consultations on the areas of: finance, marketing, management, human resources, networking and cooperation with universities in Brno and also other science & research organizations in the area of technology transfer
    • help with company business & administration: consultancy for accounting, taxes and law.
  • 4 hours of individual consultations in the JIC headquarter in Brno on the topic "How to develop your startup business". Company will receive rating according to BLUES® methodology. All by South Moravian Innovation Centre for all finalists.
  • Feedback from the expert jury for all the participants.

International expert jury

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Martin Malý (CZ)

Editor-in-chief at Internet Info
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Petr Olmer (CZ)

BI Technical Evangelist at Good Data
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Dave Ruzius (CZ)

Product Manager Mobile at LMC s.r.o.
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Jiří Kodera (CZ)

Co-Founder at Abakowiki.cz
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Ondřej Raška (CZ)

Majitel at MITON CZ
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Petr Král (CZ)

Product Manager at Seznam.cz
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František Krivda (SK)

Managing Designer at Luckyham
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Milan Čermák (SK)

Developer at Seznam.cz
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Jan Horna (CZ)

Business Development at ConcertIn
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Kevin Dykes (DE)

Co-Founder at ScaleUp Technology
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Harald Eckmüller (AT)

Social Media Operator at vi knallgrau
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Jaroslav Trojan (CZ)

Venture Analyst at Credo Ventures
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Petra Větrovská (CZ)

PPC strategist at H1CZ
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Jakub Krzych (PL)

Co-Founder at Adtaily
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Pawel Chudzinski (DE)

Partner at Team Europe Ventures
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Zsolt Bako (HU)

Co-founder at Enterprising Culture LLC
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George Tziralis (GR)

Executive Director at Openfund

Partners

Active24 Optimics HackFwd Microsoft Pixmac JIC Openfund