Draft rules of the contest.

About the contest.

The contest held as part of the Investor Day on BlogCamp CEE'08, kotrry will be held in Kiev ( Ukraine), xx -xx October 2008.

General Provisions.

The basis of competition is taken algorithm for Startups competition at the conference REDD ( Open Doors in Silicon Valley - Silicon. Valley. Open. Doors. ), Which is traditionally held in November in Silicon Valley, California, USA, 2005go year.

As an advice for entrepreneurs, we recommend the following benefits in writing:.

- Executive Summary. http://www. svod. org / files / exec_summary_tutorial. pdf.

- Presentation for Investors. http://www. svod. org / files / presentation_tutorial. ppt.

- Business Plan. http://www. svod. org / files / business_plan_tutorial. pdf.

Dates.

During the competition, the Organizing Committee BlogCamp CEE'08 sets the following dates:.

Start receiving applications - xxxxxx 2008.

Last date for receipt of applications - xxxxxx 2008.

Announcement of finalists - xxxxx 2008.

application.

Application is a letter in which businessman requests that this application for the competition, confirms that he has read the competition rules. In an annex to this letter, he made ​​Executive Summary and presentation for an investor in the English language, as described in. Under General Provisions.

Protection of Intellectual Property.

Employers representing your company to the Competition, are aware that their intellectual property (ideas, code, designs, trademarks and other intellectual property rights ) are protected under the laws of incorporation and ( or) the countries in the markets where the company plans to . In the absence of such protection, Entrepreneur solely responsible for the use of Intellectual Property of Others. In any case, he can not make claims for the use of unprotected Oranizatoram Intellectual Property Competition experts, judges, other contestants and participants at the Investor Day BlogCamp CEE'08.

The company, represented by Sughrue partner Paul Pogodin ready to consult employers participating in the Competition. on this topic.

geography.

To participate in the competition a company registered in the CEE countries, or are planning to carry out activities in the CEE countries. The countries of CEE we include: a list of countries.

Company.

Allowed to take part of the company, whose activities are contained in one of the areas of:.

- Telecom.

- Media.

- Technology.

Nominations.

The competition is held in two categories:.

Seed. Stage. - Means the earliest stations of the company's life cycle. The amount of investment required from 50 thousand to 150 thousand euros.

Early Growth Sta. ge. - Means that the company began to sell products (services ) and has a steady growth in the small volumes. The amount of investment required from 500,000 to 1 million euros.

During the competition in each category selected one winner in each category.

Experts.

The organizing committee invites BlogCamp CEE'08 as experts persons who conduct a preliminary examination of projects,. Experts are invited to investors, entrepreneurs, consultants, employees of the successful high-tech companies and other persons who have knowledge of the business venture. The list of experts available on our website BlogCamp CEE'08.

Judges.

The organizing committee invites BlogCamp CEE'08 as judges persons who during the classroom presentations at the Investor Day BlogCamp CEE'08 winners are selected from the finalists by completing the judicial questionnaires. The judges invited the individual and of institutional investors who have experience in venture capital. List of judges appear on the site BlogCamp CEE'08.

prizes.

The organizing committee BlogCamp CEE'08 making efforts to offer the winners and participants ( to qualifying ), prizes that can provide sponsors and other stakeholders.

evaluation Criteria.

Referees, like peer review, carried out on a 10- point scale in the following categories:.

- The idea of.

- Technology.

- Business Model.

- Markets.

- The Team.

- Presentation.

- Investment attractiveness (it has doubled in weight in the evaluation).

The order of the Competition.

The competition consists of three stages.

1. 
   The organizing committee BlogCamp CEE'08 conducts pre-screening criteria, and then sends experts to evaluate projects.
   


2. 
   The experts who evaluated the project, submit their evaluation Organizing Committee BlogCamp CEE'08, which forms the basis of their list of finalists (5 in each category ). Experts are estimated to add comments, observations and recommendations that are directed Bidder.
   


3. 
   During classroom presentations, jury evaluates the Company in accordance with criteria. The organizing committee BlogCamp CEE'08 by summing estimates selects winners in each category.
   

During any phase of jury members, or experts may ask additional questions to entrepreneurs.

In the event that any of the finalists will not be able to participate personally in a presentation at the Investor Day BlogCamp CEE'08, Organizing Committee BlogCamp CEE'08 can replace it with the participants at its discretion.