Competition Timeline
Early Deadline
Submit your Idea Summary
- Update Applications
- 10-Sep-2012 Midnight to 28-Oct-2012 11:59 PM
- Judging
- 29-Oct-2012 Midnight to 20-Nov-2012 Noon
Final Deadline
Submit your final Idea Summary
- Update Applications
- 01-Jan-2013 Midnight to 01-Feb-2013 09:00 AM
- Judging
- 02-Feb-2013 Midnight to 20-Feb-2013 09:59 AM
Round 2 Deadline
Submit your video, powerpoint and/or business plan
- Update Applications
- 25-Feb-2013 10:00 AM to 20-Mar-2013 08:59 AM
- Judging
- 20-Mar-2013 09:00 AM to 28-Mar-2013 05:59 AM
Round 3
Judges will review your Round 2 materials. The difference between Round 2 and 3 is that Round 3 includes subset the finalist teams from all tracks.
- Update Applications
- 28-Mar-2013 10:59 AM to 28-Mar-2013 06:59 PM
- Judging
- 29-Mar-2013 Midnight to 04-Apr-2013 05:59 AM
Grand Finale
Help us choose the $50,000 winner. Event starts at 7:30pm on April 11th in Fuqua's Geneen Auditorium. All are welcome.
- Update Applications
- 11-Apr-2013 Midnight to 11-Apr-2013 07:00 PM
- Judging
- 11-Apr-2013 07:30 PM to 11-Apr-2013 10:00 PM
Times are in EDT (-0400)

14th Annual Duke Start-Up Challenge
Welcome to the 14th Annual Duke Start-Up Challenge
If you have not logged in before, please click the "Register" button and follow the instructions. If you have already registered, please log in using your e-mail address and password.
For details about the Final Deadline, visit our webpage
For the Idea Summary template, click here
To look at sample Idea Summaries, visit this page
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- Ting-Ting Zhou, (Trinity '13) Co-President at ting-ting.zhou@duke.edu
- Janet Ng (Fuqua/Nicholas '14), Co-President at janet.ng@duke.edu
- Navid Samadani-McQuirk (Fuqua'13), Co-President at navid.s.m@fuqua.duke.edu
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Howie Rhee '04, Advisor at hwr2@duke.edu
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