A Twist on the Standard Biz Plan Competition
Draper Fisher Jurvetson is hosting its annual business plan competition again, but this year is telling presenters to stay home. The Silicon Valley firm's contest -- which includes 16 startups from 6 countries -- is using TelePresence, Cisco’s costly and much-promoted videoconferencing system that’s designed to make people in different places appear as if they’re in a single boardroom. The competition takes place on Tuesday, with judges gathering at Cisco’s San Jose headquarters to choose who will win a $250,000 investment. Half the presenters are based in the U.S., with the others located in Israel, China, Russia, India and Brazil. Finalists run the gamut from Five Minutes, maker of a Chinese social game called Happy Farm
24 June 2009•2 mins read
