The RT Media social tech blog » incubator http://www.socialtech.biz empowering business through the social web Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:25:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 a startup contest? http://www.socialtech.biz/blog/a-startup-contest http://www.socialtech.biz/blog/a-startup-contest#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:32:37 +0000 luke http://www.socialtech.biz/?p=224 Last weeks startup meetup was very interesting,we discussed the idea of having some form of startup contest – see Mark Ng’s write up on the contest idea here

In a rough summary:

Incubator idea – full time commitment / funded / fixed end date to contest (3 months?) / launch day where ideas/teams are founded

part time contest – part time teams / sponsored / fixed end date / launch day where teams can find missing members

or some combo of the two, perhaps a launch day where teams could pitch to be in the incubator and then a free for all for any other p/t teams who wanted to compete for the main prize… whatever that was.

Personally, I’m split on the idea… I totally see the commitment side that Mark argues for.. I also think a p/t contest has merits.

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