Introduction

The SaaS Entrepreneur Camp is a business idea competition where the winning team will get the chance to be funded and mentored by an angel investor from Silicon Valley. To qualify, teams must propose a software business idea that uses the Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery model. Teams will go through a qualification process which will culminate in a workshop and final judging.

This is NOT a business plan competition. We care more about the quality of your idea and the members of the team, not whether you have a full-blown business plan. What you need to have is a clear summary of the business concept (three pages should be enough to explain this) and, more importantly, a prototype.

What is SaaS?

Software as a Service (SaaS, typically pronounced 'sass') is a model of software delivery where the vendor licenses the software for use as an on-demand service. SaaS vendors typically host their application on their own web servers, usually granting access to customers on a monthly basis. Some examples of SaaS vendors include Morph eXchange (customer relationship management, enterprise content management), Basecamp (project management), and Vertical Response (email marketing).