Invitation - Nokia's Mobile Rules! - Business Plan and Application Competition

Hello Mobile Developers and Entrepreneurs,
Nokia's Premiere Business Plan and Application Competition is counting down.
www.mobilerules.org

SCOPE OF THE COMPETITION
The goal of the competition is to seek out the developers and entrepreneurs who are creating new value, new revenue and services for mobile workforces and the mobile lifestyle. The Mobile Rules! is a “two-track” competition:

Track 1: MOBILE APPLICATIONS
Categories are Multiplayer/ Connected Games, Multimedia, Enterprise and Infotainment.We are looking for new applications that use the unique enablers of the Nokia Platforms. Applications will be judged on uniqueness, design, ease of use, and overall end-user experience. Important note: don't let categories restrict your ideas; it's your application that counts.

Track 2: MOBILE BUSINESS PLANS
The main focus areas of the business plan competition are “Communication and sharing”, “Internet innovation and mobility” and “Human and green applications”, but there’s no limitation to your plan – as long as it’s about mobile business. Plans are judged on novelty value and innovation, market potential, customer adoption, revenue opportunity and investor value.

COMPETITION TIMELINE
Business plan submission deadline is November 16, 2007
Application submission deadline January 25, 2008
Finalists announcement February 15, 2008
Award ceremony mid-March 2008

Download MobileRules2008 Competition Details pdf (486KB):



PARTNERS

• BlueRun Ventures
• CMEA Ventures
• FinNode
• Nokia Corporation
• Nokia Growth Partners
• Orange
• SK Telecom International
• SVASE
• Swisscom
• Vision Capital
• ZEF Solutions
• SINA Mobile
• Palo Alto Software
• IDEO
• Accel
  

MEDIA AND COMMUNITY PARTNERS

• Red Herring
• Mobile Game Developer Magazine
• TechCrunch
• LIVEdigitally
• Stirr
• VentureBeat
• GigaOM