Start-up-Cup @ H-BRS: ideas competition 2022

To participate, you are required to submit your start-up idea in a written out pitch deck as a PowerPoint presentation with a maximum of 14 slides using the notes function (approx. 150 words per slide). This is intended to provide the jury with any additional information that would normally be mentioned in an oral presentation.

It is important that the finished presentation with the notes is saved as a PDF so that the notes can be found under each of the associated slides [File - Print - Print to PDF - Select "Note Pages" as the print layout].

Please send the documents, including full contact information (name, email address, phone number, relationship to the university, date of business registration, if applicable) by email to gruenden@h-brs.de by 23:59 on 15 August 2022.

In addition to the documents, you must also submit a consent form for the ideas competition.

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It is also possible to submit a pitch deck in English.

The following aspects should be addressed in the pitch deck:

• Problem: What is the current challenge faced by customers and users?
• Solution: How can the challenge be overcome?
• Presentation of product/service: What is being sold? What are the customer benefits?
• Target group: Who is the target group and what distinguishes them?
• Market and competition: Why is the market attractive? What are the barriers to entry? Who are the competitors?
• Marketing and sales: With which pricing model do you want to go to market? Which communication measures should be used? How will the product be brought to the customer?
• Business model and financing: What is the company structure? What is the relationship between costs and turnover? At what point is the project profitable?
• Team: Who is on the team and what skills and experience does the team have?
• Milestones and outlook:What is the current status? What goals are to be achieved in the short and medium term? What are the next steps? How much capital is needed for the start-up?
• USP: Why is the idea unique or better than other ideas? What are the opportunities and risks?
• Contact details: Name, email address, phone number

Evaluation and selection

All submissions will be evaluated by an internal jury of the Start-up-Manufaktur and an external jury, based on predefined evaluation criteria. The founding teams that qualify for the final will be contacted in advance by email and agree to present their start-up project at the final event on 13 October 2022.

• Students, employees and alumni of the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg with a start-up idea and also those university members who have already founded a start-up are eligible to participate. However, the start-up must have been founded no more than one year ago. The date of the business registration is decisive. Participation is possible for individuals as well as for start-up teams of up to four people.
• All founding ideas formally received in full by 23:59 on 15 August 2022 will be considered. Documents that are submitted in addition to the pitch deck and the associated explanation via the note function cannot be considered in the evaluation.
• The idea must have been developed independently by the founding team and must not infringe the rights of third parties.
• The organisers reserve the right to change the announced prizes for organisational reasons. There is no entitlement to a specific prize. If there are no ideas or contributions worthy of a prize, no prize will be awarded.
• The organiser reserves the right to change the conditions of participation or to terminate the competition at any time, even without prior notice.
• The participants shall indemnify the organiser against all conceivable claims by third parties which could be derived from the infringement of any copyrights, statutory property rights, trade secrets and other rights by the submitted documents.

Protection of ideas and data protection

• H-BRS and CENTIM will not disclose participants' personal data to unauthorised third parties. The following personal data will be processed for the ideas competition and can only be viewed and processed by authorised persons:
  • Name, first name
  • E-mail address
  • phone number
  • relationship to the university
  • Date of business registration/name of company, if applicable
• The submitted start-up ideas are subject to copyright protection. Documents provided by the participants will be treated confidentially by the H-BRS, in particular by all participating jury members, and will be used exclusively for the implementation of the start-up competition. They will be deleted after the end of the competition. There is no right to return the submitted documents.
• By submitting their entry, participating founding teams that qualify for the final agree to present their idea at the final event and agree that the organiser may take and reproduce pictures and videos of the participants for information and documentation purposes and publish them in print and audiovisual media. Specifically, publication on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, on the university website and in the university newsletter is planned.
• By taking part in the competition, participants expressly agree to the conditions of participation.

► special price DIGITALHUB.DE

The DIGITALHUB.DE awards digital-oriented ideas that have either designed an innovative product or an innovative service. Participating founders and people interested in founding a company who win the special prize from the DIGITALHUB.DE in the idea competition will receive a founder's package from the benefits of the Alpha Accelerator, which has a value of over 30,000 EUR.

What the DIGITALHUB.DE offers you: 6 months Premium Coworking Membership for FREE; high chance of five to six figure seed funding; intros to business angels, VC's & institutional investors; € 12,000 NRW Founder Stipend per founder; 20,000+ in Cloud Credits & Perks; support from professional coaches & experienced mentors; weekly meetups & workshops; invitations to exclusive events and access to the network; professional photos, videos & premium promotion.

The founder package may not be passed on to third parties and the monetary value cannot be paid out. The special prize is linked to the access requirements of the Digital Hub in Bonn: You are a start-up with a digital business model; not yet founded or 2 years after founding; from Bonn or the surrounding area; motivated and ready to take off.

► special price Innovation

The prize is a 100% scholarship in the form of free participation in the further education course Start-up Development (MBA) at the H-BRS for one person worth 15,600 euros. The scholarship may not be passed on to third parties and the monetary value cannot be paid out. To participate in the continuing education programme starting in the winter semester 2022 or 2023, the admission requirements of the programme must be met. The scholarship is valid for the duration of the standard study period of four semesters. Further information on the degree programme and the requirements can be found on the following website: Start-up Development (MBA)

Applicants who are interested in the special prize "Innovation" and at the same time fulfil the study requirements to start their studies directly in the winter semester 2022/23 must also apply online via the H-BRS application portal by 15 August 2022 for formal reasons.

For easier allocation, we also ask you to indicate that you have also applied for the degree programme when submitting your pitch deck.

If you have any questions, please contact the programme coordination directly.