Just about 6 days remain to the end of the submission of entries to the StartupSmart Awards 2015 held for Australian startups. The deadline is March 13.
The awards ceremony will be held in Melbourne, Australia, on April 16 this year. All companies applying must be Australian; even Australian subsidiaries of multinationals are not eligible. StartupSmart Awards is organised by Private Media Ptv Ltd.
Your business must have started up after July 1, 2009 for all award categories – except for ‘Best New Startup’, where the business needs to have launched after 1 Jan 2014, & ‘Best Startup Idea’ where the business has not launched yet.
The categories are:
Best Startup: Demonstrate significant growth in terms of customers/users & financial over the past few years. Have an innovative product or business model, disrupting a particular industry & be already well on the way to achieving global scale.
Best New Startup: Launched after January 1 2014, the Best New Startup will have an innovative product or business model that will have already achieved significant traction.
Best Startup Idea: Identifies a unique problem and applies an innovative solution, with a huge potential market.
Best Disruptor: The startup most disruptive of the industry it services, that has ongoing potential to significantly change the industry or problem space it’s focused on.
Best Social Change Entrepreneur: An innovative approach to solving a significant social issue in the community.
Fastest Growing Startup: Demonstrate the highest percentage revenue and/or user growth over the past four years.
Best Regional Startup: Demonstrate success outside a capital city while overcoming challenges of distance from major population centres and startup hubs.
Startup Hero: Goes to a start-up founder with an inspiring story behind them & their business.
DFK Australia New Zealand (DFK ANZ), an association of 14 independent accounting & business advisory firms, is the main sponsor. DFK ANZ will provide business advisory packages to all entrants, finalists & winners. Winners will also get Private Media advertising package worth $10,000, & will feature in the ‘finalists’ yearbook, shared with industry & investors, says an announcement on the StartupSmart Awards Website.
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