Viadeo Student Challenge

Viadeo the Paris based ApnaCircle parent & Professional Social Network (PSN) and the company that challenges LinkedIn is holding a Student Challenge event, which seems to be an annual custom(from last year). They did this last year as per the info on their blog it seems it was a good success. You may read more details on their blog here.

Since the first edition of the event was a success, the have decided to renew the operation and upgrade a bit more. The culture of the company they say "has always valued the entrepreneurial culture", and thus this second edition will focus on the "innovative start-ups". The challenge for Students this year will be to study an aggressive, effective and at same time engaging start-up that also integrates well with the social media dimension.

If you have a start-up that satisfies the criteria and would like to participate in the Viadeo Student Challenge, you stand a chance to attract the visibility of around 5000 students and professionals and collect fresh ideas. As per the details available on their site, it seems they are inviting only the start-ups based out of LA for Viadeo Student Challenge. 

Nominations of the event are open from today till 13th June 2012 and for participating you will have to see the details on their site, click here. As it stands the name of the chosen start-up will be announced sometime late June 2012, keep an eye on the group Looking for start-ups.