VC prizes, and rocket scientists turn green
The X Prize Foundation, a group advancing safe travel in space, is soliciting venture capitalists to offer million-dollar prizes to generate ideas from entrepreneurs. It’s having a fund-raiser at Google.
The New York Times has the story, which provides a summary some of the other VC-related competitions out there. Such competitions have a long history in Silicon Valley. There are many more such competitions, not mentioned (VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson has regular business plan… Continue Reading