Cyber Agent Investments Organizes Business Plan Competition
Investment arm of a Tokyo-based Internet venture Cyber Agent Group, Cyber Agent Investment LTD.[J] announced to organize a business plan competition called “START”, for the purpose of discovering innovative and potential tech start-up, in cooperation with Cyber Agent, Mixi[J], Yahoo Japan[J], EC Navi[J], CA Mobile, netprice.com, DeNA and Microsoft Bizspark.
Award winning plan may get funding of 100 million yen (approx. USD 1.1 million) at the maximum from Cyber Agent Investment. Additional funding and business partnership may be provided by the cooperators.
The competition is open to all individuals who are older than 18 years and so, and to all corporates which founded in less than three years. Its competition entry is open from January 8th through March 11th this year.
Website of business plan competition “START” [J]
Author Information Masaru IKEDA has co-founded several system integration companies and consulting firms in Tokyo. He has been contributing serial columns to nationwide newspapers and IT periodicals, also he's currently serving as tech consultant for several web companies. See this for more bio.
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