Entrepreneurship: QPrize™ Business Plan Competition

QPrize™ is a business plan competition sponsored by Qualcomm Ventures with a goal of providing early stage funding to a select number of start-ups.

Competition Overview

Qualcomm Venture's QPrize™ competition is open to entrepreneurs in China, Europe, India and North America and will provide US$550,000 in total seed funding to help entrepreneurs transform their innovative business plans into reality. Each region will host their own semi-finals event in September, 2009 with the winner in each region securing $100,000 (USD) in funding. The four regional finalists will then be invited to San Diego to compete for the Grand Prize, an additional $150,000 (USD) in funding.

Additional details on candidate eligibility and submission guidelines are available at http://www.qprize2009.com/

Timelines

*July 31st, 2009 : Deadline for submitting completed business plans.

*September, 2009 : Regional semi-finals.

*November, 2009 : Finals in San Diego, CA

Please visit http://cl.exct.net/?ju=fe2515727262017f711c77&ls=fe2d107076640778701179&m=feff1771716503&l=fef5177976670c&s=fe5317787c67017b7d16&jb=ffcf14&t= for more details on dates for your region.

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