{"id":41421,"date":"2023-10-20T15:13:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/five-top-competitions-for-aussie-start-ups-page-5-of-5-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T15:13:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T15:13:50","slug":"five-top-competitions-for-aussie-start-ups-page-5-of-5-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/five-top-competitions-for-aussie-start-ups-page-5-of-5-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Five top competitions for Aussie start-ups &#8211; Page 5 of 5 &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>5. Microsoft BizSpark<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In some start-up competitions, you\u2019ve very much got to play by the sponsor\u2019s rules \u2013 to the point that you have to use their product or service to be able to compete.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Microsoft BizSpark program is open to all-comers \u2013 as long as you use Microsoft technology. Last year, taxi location app goCatch beat eight other finalists to be named winner of <a href=\"planning\/business-planning\/microsoft-crowns-taxi-finder-app-gogatch-as-asia-pacifics-top-start-up\/201207106876.html\">Microsoft\u2019s APAC Startup 2012 Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>GoCatch beat an impressive field of rivals to land the $5000 prize, including customised jewellery maker StyleRocks, New Zealand-based HR tool Avancert and Melbourne start-up Sound Gecko, which converts online articles into audio files.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>All of the finalists are part of Microsoft\u2019s BizSpark program, which aims to foster start-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5. Microsoft BizSpark &nbsp; In some start-up competitions, you\u2019ve very much got to play by the sponsor\u2019s rules \u2013 to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}