{"id":10934,"date":"2013-05-28T11:47:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T06:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=10934"},"modified":"2013-05-28T11:47:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T06:17:32","slug":"microsoft-bizspark-india-startup-challenge-2013-kochi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/microsoft-bizspark-india-startup-challenge-2013-kochi\/","title":{"rendered":"Startup Village to host Microsoft BizSpark Startup Challenge on May29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Startup Village Kochi<\/strong>, India&#8217;s first telecom technology incubator, will host the regional round of <strong>BizSpark India Startup Challenge held by Microsoft on May29.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/india\/bizsparkstartupchallenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft BizSpark India Startup Challenge 2013<\/a> is a unique platform to identify and promote upcoming start-ups with a promising product in focus areas of connected devices and continuous services across India. The participants can submit their business ideas on Cloud Computing, Mobility and Windows 8 business applications.<\/p>\n<p>BizSpark event is open to people who are 18 years or older, citizens or legal residents in India, and are a part of BizSpark Community. This is the first time that Kochi has been selected as one of 10 cities to host the challenge. Winners of the regional rounds will go head-to-head in the national grand finale to be held in Bangalore. The BizSpark Challenge 2013 will offer an opportunity for Start-ups to win huge grants to realise their business plan. This time it offers both cash and non cash prizes. The Winner will get a <strong>cash prize of $4000 and 1st Runner up will get $2000 and 2nd Runner up will get $1000.<\/strong> Winners will also get <a title=\"20 Best Windows 8 Laptops-Tablets for India.\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/best-windows-8-laptops-tablets-for-india\/\" target=\"_blank\">Windows 8 laptops<\/a> and Xbox 360 Gaming consoles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a title=\"\u2018Xbox One\u2019 In The Stage\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/microsoft-xbox-one-gaming-console\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft announced Xbox One<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Microsoft&#8217;s choice of Startup Village as the host for the challenge is not just an acknowledgement of the tremendous strides we have made over the past one year, it also heralds the arrival of Kochi on India&#8217;s entrepreneurial map,&#8221; said Sijo Kuruvilla George, CEO of Startup Village.<\/p>\n<p>The event starts at 3:30 p.m. on May 29 and will be presided over by senior officials from<a title=\"30 Days to Freedom \u2013 To Support the next Steve Job\u2019s\" href=\"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/30-days-to-freedom-to-support-the-next-steve-jobs\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Startup Village<\/a> and Microsoft. Those interested in attending the event should email Startup Village on <strong>talktous@startupvillage.in<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startup Village Kochi, India&#8217;s first telecom technology incubator, will host the regional round of BizSpark India Startup Challenge held by Microsoft on May29. Microsoft BizSpark India Startup Challenge 2013 is a unique platform to identify and promote upcoming start-ups with a promising product in focus areas of connected devices and continuous services across India. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,5],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-10934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-startups-technology","category-technology","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}