Chapter 81: What the hell should I do?
Duke never imagined that this entrepreneurship competition would be like a whirlwind on campus, with more than 1,000 teams registered on the registration website in just one week!
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology alone is said to have more than 50 teams. And judging from the trend of increasing the number of registered teams, this is just the beginning, with the deepening of the publicity, it is not known how many teams will emerge later.
Duke still underestimated the impact of the million-dollar prize, but the bigger allure came from the people behind the competition, and there are now rumors that if he makes it to the top 10, he will almost certainly be backed by venture capital from the host funds.
The difference is only in the size of the amount of venture capital, and it is rumored that the venture capital fund said that there is no upper limit on this investment! Hundreds of millions of dollars are not a problem, it only depends on the investment value of the project.
This is an opportunity to climb to the sky, but all students who have some ideas and abilities are stimulated by this rumor, and they are planning all day how to form a team, how to design products and markets, and as for submitting the final business plan, the deadline for the competition is June 30.
Relatively speaking, although everyone's time is not very sufficient, it is not too rushed.
According to the competition schedule, the registration should be completed before June 1, and the business plan should be completed before June 30. July 30 before the completion of the professional selection of experts and venture capital company representatives of the market selection, through the two jury selection of the project is the shortlisted project, will be put on the online display, the whole August will be the student voting period, September 1 to summarize the final score of each shortlisted project, the top ten entrepreneurial teams with a total score of three will enter the final finals.
The finals are scheduled to be decided live on Saturday night, Sept. 14 in an open debate, and will be broadcast live on CBS TV, not on CBS's main channel, but that's good enough.
You must know that this is neither a presidential election debate nor a national beauty pageant, at best it is a commercial show, and it is not easy to be able to broadcast live.
After reading the entire schedule, Duke gasped, this is really a protracted battle, and his attempts to return home for the holidays will be frustrated.
Duke didn't think that his team would not be able to make it, and joked that as a new computer genius, he would come up with something that could be sold for money.
It's great that you can make up a small part of SAL's current business, such as developing a similar game based on the game engine of the Kree War, I believe it can also win a lot of eyeballs. It's just that this hurts Duke's self-esteem a little too much, yes, now that Du has the aura of an MIT genius, how can he do such a falling thing.
But the thought of competing with all the world's prodigies in the United States, Duke really doesn't have the ambition to win the championship now, especially with the current blindness.
This is not a computer programming competition with a fixed formula and fixed topics, if that is the case, I believe that today in the programming level can never find a master who can compete with Duke, just kidding, the gap in the development of science and technology for hundreds of years is by no means easy to make up for by talent and diligence.
But this is an open-ended competition with no theme, and God knows how many demonic beings there are in this American university that gathers the world's genius, let alone what unbelievable money-making plans they will come up with. You know, this is a country full of magic and dreams.
Just look at the creation of new star companies in almost all walks of life every year, you know that the water in this river and lake is not ordinarily deep, although Duke is now a little confident, but it is far from being arrogant.
But what exactly is the best thing to do? In the past few days, as soon as he has free time, Duke has begun to ponder this question.
Kerry still has a lot of good things hidden on him, but it is really difficult to find one that is suitable for taking it out now, there is no way, most of them are too advanced and heavyweight, and every advanced technology that can be produced at the current level will inevitably cause a sensation in the global science and technology community once it is taken out.
For example, virtual three-dimensional display technology is definitely a killer product that shocks the world, Duke is definitely not worried about the market prospects, but Duke is only afraid that it will be too sensational, so completely out of nowhere to come up with a shocking product, the risk behind this is really unpredictable.
Think about a robot path-finding algorithm, can attract the attention of relevant domestic departments and NASA, this kind of intelligent path-finding algorithm technology content and computational complexity do not know how much higher once taken out, I am afraid that the CIA, FBI, Mossad or something can't help but come to the door.
What's more, there is a foreshadowing of technological transition in front of the robot intelligent pathfinder, so I am a doctor of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, as the world's top research laboratory, to come up with this artificial intelligence-related thing, others will only think that the IQ is superior and the results are outstanding.
But similar to the virtual three-dimensional display technology of this kind of high-tech, Duke has not yet had the opportunity to contact it at all, how do you ask him to explain its origin, can it be said that he is a rare scientific research genius with clear bones and full of heaven, and he dreams out of a dream with the help of gods and men at night? Do you really think you're making a man, just shoot it?
Well, even if you really dare to say this to someone like this, think about how low your IQ is to believe it.
As for other nuclear energy technologies, polymer material synthesis technologies, ......, ahem, don't play spoilers in advance, this thing is too advanced, and even more shocking.
It's still civilian, and at most it's a little bit of interest in what is in your head.
The latter are already related to the national economy and people's livelihood for multiple military and civilian purposes, and some things are even subversive for some industries now, and the interest groups related to them are too big, and this is by no means something that can be passed by explaining it.
At that time, not only the relevant departments, but also the heroes and heroes of the black and white roads, the side doors, etc., will appear one by one. If that were the case, Duke's original intention of coming to MIT would be completely meaningless. As for the next plan to complete Billem, I don't know when and when it will be achieved.
PS: Today's collection has increased by more than 30 plus more, brothers are too powerful, I hope the collection increase can continue to be coquettish, if more than 400 collections today, there will be a change at night!