The judging is complete and the winners are in!

CUE would like to congratulate the following teams for their winning entries in the £100 for 100 word contest.

- £100 for 100 words -

Deadline 28 October at 23.59. To submit your entry visit:

www.cue.org.uk/submissions/100-challenge

The best essay you'll ever write.

A huge well done to everyone who entered and congratulations to the 20 winners!

• Aidventure Ryan Sanderson-Smith
• AlgaeLab Ben Sheppard, Karuga Koinange, Chris Bowler, David Valinsky, Oliver Hudson and Daniela Krug
• Automatic Gear Shift Edwin Koh
• Bloodline Cong Cong Bo
• CamMicrobicide Arjun Goyal
• Cancer Nanobullets Aron Rachamim
• DHX Li Dong, David Clough, Helen Cavill, Matthew Leung
• EZwind Jun Xu, Jiang Cao
• GelHelmet Stuart Easton, Shamus Husheer
• HotCrypt Tom Craig
• Keep Africa Moving Arif Damji
• M-RAM Chris Baker, Insiya Jafferji, Johann Jakob Napp, Simon Schlachter, B. Trappmann, X.Y. Xue
• PK health Shohta Ueno, Alexandra Park
• Securicath Sarah Gates
• SINOLOGI Michael Tai
• SuperTurbine Ruilin PEI
• Therapeutic antibody design by microdroplet microfluidics Abigail Fox, Dave Marsden, Yanching Chu, Aron Rachamim, Parvez Hakim, Euvian Tan, Rene Gonzalez Campos
• There's a Killer in the Kitchen Allen Chen, Julia Fan Li
• WebLink Joao Pereira, Goncalo Perdigao
• Zephyr Systems Cong Cong Bo, Corentin Roux dit Buisson

- £100 for a 100 words -

The best essay you'll ever write 

Enter the £100 Challenge!  If you have an idea for a business, product or service then write it down in 100 words or fewer and you might win £100 for your efforts.  All you have to do is make your idea 'POP'. 

CU Entrepreneurs warmly invites you to attend this year's Grand Launch event, where you can find out how to win £100 for 100 words.

The venue is the Wolfson Lecture Theatre in the Chemistry Department on Lensfield Road.  The lecture theatre itself is located just inside the main entrance (link to google map)

You will also hear from our guest of honour and CUE Prize Winner, Billy Boyle (Owlstone). About 5 years ago Billy was an entrant in the Entrepreneurs' Challenge and now his company has reached sales of over $4 million. Find out how he did it and how you can be next.

Over the last 9 years, CUE has awarded more than £360k to over 400 teams who are now collectively worth £42m. The Grand Launch is particularly special since it marks the start of the 10th Entrepreneurs' Challenge.   The event is free to attend and there will be food, drink and live music as well as the chance to meet potential team-mates for this year's Entrepreneurs' Challenge. Come along and find out what it takes to be a winner.

Date: 14th October 2008 -- Time: 6pm for 6:30pm (please arrive early to avoid disappointment)  -- Venue: Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Dept of Chemistry (link to google map)

A huge well done to everyone who entered and congratulations to the 20 winners!

1. Biofuels Technology
   (Eliot Read, Zhaoru Lin, Shohta Ueno, Anne Lo, Tobias Pawliczek)
2. CycloSpray
   (Judith Balvanyos)
3. DeliCocktail
   (Corentin Roux dit Buisson, Andreas Petsas, Chao Wang, Jonathan Thompson)
4. Drive Technologies
   (Mark Henare, Iskandar Samad, Sue Kirk, Caizhen Cheng, Laurence Toime, Chong Yi, Zern Tay, Ehsan Abdi)
5. High Street Oracle
   (Tom Craig)
6. Intelligent Nutrition Ltd
   (Christopher Rumball)
7. Kosovo Microfinance Association
   (Alban Rrustemi, Jonathan May)
8. Lazybugs
   (Ming-yan Li, Helena Todd, Liz Colby)
9. Medicist
   (Klasu Peter Kopper)
10. OR Smart Lights
    (Melissa Matarese, Ruben Quek)
11. Photo Safe
    (Amy E. Rowe, Pierre Far)
12. PhytoMetrix
    (Sophie Janacek, Keith Macaulay, Holly Astley, Bettina Otto)
13. REEFSEQ
    (Jason Fish)
14. Rejuvinate
    (Biswa Sengupta, Jasjeet kaur Maggu)
15. Shock Shades
    (Joao Pereira, Shamus Husheer)
16. Soothescapes
    (Joao Pereira, Shamus Husheer)
17. ThinQ.Org
    (Jonathan May, Alban Rrustemi)
18. Zalet
    (Shohta Ueno, Anne Lo, Zhaoru Lin, Eliot Read, Tobias Pawliczek)
19. ZeaTs
    (Zhaoru Lin, Anne Lo, Eliot Read, Shohta Ueno, Tobias Pawliczek)
20. TamSaids
    (Melissa Matarese)

The Cambridge University Entrepreneurs warmly invites you to join us at our Challenge 100 Awards Ceremony, where we will be announcing the winners of our first competition, Challenge 100 over wine, cake and jazz.

The details are as follows:
Time: 6pm for 6:30pm
Date: Wednesday 21 November
Venue: Law Faculty, 10 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DZ.
Dress: smart

Come along to:
- find out who has won - prizes will be distributed;
- find out how to enter our next phase, the £1k Challenge;
- network and be inspired by others' ideas;
- enjoy cake and wine!

CU Entrepreneurs is proud to announce that its £100 Challenge competition has attracted well over 300 business ideas from enterprising members of the University of Cambridge. These ideas are now being judged by 20 senior mentors from the Cambridge business scene, and the results will be announced within two weeks. A big thank you to all who entered!

The next phase of CU Entrepreneurs' 2007-8 competitions is the £1k Challenge, where 10 prizes of £1,000 are available. Entries may be submitted any time between Saturday 10 November and Wednesday 12 December. The £1k Challenge rewards well-presented propositions that show clear market potential and competitive positions. Further details may be found in the Competitions Handbook.

Would you like to win £100 for 100 words? CU Entrepreneurs has 20 cash prizes of £100 to give away, each for a summary of a business idea of not more than 100 words. The challenge is to condense what you want to say and get all the major points across in a single paragraph.

The £100 Challenge is what you make of it - the very start of something big, or a quick way to pocket £100. Now, you can choose for you entry to go forwards into the UUNI Global Ideas Challenge for the chance to win £20 000!

Ultimately, CU Entrepreneurs is the way to make your ideas happen. Since 1999 we have awarded over £320,000 in grants to 41 business ideas, which are now collectively valued at over £42 million.

We have now extended our deadline by one week to 23:59, Monday 29 October, in light of requests from our members.

Terms and conditions may be found in the Competitions Handbook.

Please submit your idea online: click here.

A note about confidentiality:
A few entrants have been concerned that their ideas will be "stolen" as a result of entering the £100 Challenge. To avoid this, we advise that you submit a public summary describing:

• the "what" (what role it fills)
• the "why" (why people will want it)
• but NOT the "how" (how it works or how someone could duplicate it).

In Phases 1 and 2 of the Challenge, CU Entrepreneurs will take measures to protect the confidentiality of your entries. All judges and entrants will be required to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. Failure to comply will lead to prosecution.

It's easy: just pitch your business idea to us in 100 words. The challenge here is to condense what you want to say and get all the major points across in just a paragraph. There is no need to give away any private information – a public summary is enough to win the competition. Then, submit your summary online at www.cue.org.uk

You could win one or more of 20 cash prizes of £100. Winners and runners-up get free entry to Phase 1.