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Napkin Competition 2010 Winners!

Congratulation to the following people who have won in the Napkin Competition 2010:

Rachel Yap
Costa Tsimiklis
Jack FitzGerald
David Angelo Chiapoco

Their ideas range from “Student Venture Capital Fund for Entrepreneurs, by Entrepreneurs” to “Convertible heels – for the sensible and practical woman”, which according to our independent judges have great potential to be developed into real businesses.

We also have three additional winners from International House Sydney:

Siaw-Yean Woon
Sumit Gupta
Yixuan(Neil) Chen

Startup Camp 2010: 6 Online Businesses Created Over a Single Weekend

Startup Camp 2010: 6 Online Businesses Created Over a Single Weekend

Startup Camp 2010 invited 30 university students to spend a weekend this month, locked in a room, to create six new web-based businesses in 48 hours. Participants included a mixture of coders, business “geeks” and graphic designers from the University of Melbourne, RMIT, Monash University and Swinburn University. The event began with participants brainstorming ideas [...]

Google Melbourne Uni Campus Tech Talk + Pizza!‏

COME AND JOIN US!

Alice Boxhall, a Google Software Engineer will present,
Your Logo Here: A look at the technologies used in building a single Google product.

Google’s “Sponsored Map Icons”, developed entirely in Sydney, allows advertisers to show branded logos on Google Maps. In this talk, Alice will discuss the Google technologies used to build this product, including MapReduce, Google File System, Google App Engine, and others.

For our second talk – Google Wave is a product that helps users communicate and collaborate on the web.

Napkin Competition 2010 Winners to be announced at next Entrepreneurs Coffee Club

Come and find out if your business idea on the back of a napkin is flying you to Sydney! This is your lifetime opportunity to engage with local entrepreneurs, business people and visit innovative environments including the Googleplex (plus more)

If you haven’t submitted yet, remember the deadline is Wednesday 7th April.

Click here to submit your idea!

Date: Friday 16th April
Time: 2.15 – 3.15pm

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