14th Annual Duke Start-Up Challenge

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)

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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

Questions? Email us:

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
Howie Rhee '04, Advisor at hwr2@duke.edu