Students, research assistants and professors are encouraged to join the start2grow entrepreneurship competition 2016 - a contest for people with an exciting business idea. Application is now open!
Start2 grow offers the following benefits:
- Free participation
- High prize money (30.000€ for the top 3 ideas)
- Special technology prize pool of 10.000€
- Support from over 600 coaches from the fields of economy and science
- A large network which supplies participants with useful contacts from economy and science
- Events like workshops and coaching
- Support in setting up a business plan, which is able to win over investors and decision makers
Start2grow is a competition which helps german founders to implement their business idea. More than 600 voluntary coaches will support participants with their expert knowledge and potential business contacts. Over 4000 teams have participated in the last 34 competitions and have presented their individual ideas and concepts. From these 4000 teams, 900 actually launched their venture and have been able to create more than 5200 jobs - a very promising ratio. Start2grow is the only german entrepreneurship competition which is certified by ISO 9001 for its quality management. It is an initiative by dortmund-project, belonging to the department for economic advancement of the City of Dortmund.
For more information regarding the application please visit www.start2grow.de.
