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AWS Start-Up Challenge and Amazon Payments Prize for 2009

From Jeff Bar at Amazon Web Services Blog:

We're kicking off the third annual AWS Start-Up Challenge now.

We're looking for the hottest and coolest start-ups and start-up ideas. Developers and entrepreneurs in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Israel are encouraged to enter for a chance to win $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, mentoring sessions from AWS technical experts, and AWS Premium Support Gold for one year.

From our Amazon Payments team: This year, AWS has included an exciting prize from Amazon Payments for the AWS Start-Up Challenge finalist with the most creative monetization strategy and use of Amazon Payments solutions. Winner of the Amazon Payments prize will go home with $10,000 in combined cash and Amazon Payments credits.

To enter, fill out and submit the online application by August 26, 2009. The judging panel will review all of the application and choose the seven best, based on originality and creativity, likelihood of long-term success, monetization strategy, quality of proposal, and effective use of AWS.

The finalists will be announced in October. At that time we will post a video of each finalist and invite the public to vote for their favorite. Then we'll fly all of the finalists to Silicon Valley where they'll present their ideas to the judges' panel during the day, and pitch them to a live audience of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists that night, where the winner will be chosen, announced, and feted.

All runner-up finalists will receive $5,000 in AWS service credits; all entrants with qualified submissions will receive $25 credits.

The Challenge finalist with the most creative monetization model using the Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) or Simple Pay from Amazon Payments will win $10,000 in combined cash and Amazon Payments credits. All finalists using these services will receive $2,500 in Amazon Payments credits. Read more here.

Questions? Check out the contest rules, review the prizes, and scan the FAQ. You may also want to watch the videos we made for the 2007 and 2008 finalists.

From Jeff Bar at Amazon Web Services Blog:

We're kicking off the third annual AWS Start-Up Challenge now.

We're looking for the hottest and coolest start-ups and start-up ideas. Developers and entrepreneurs in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Israel are encouraged to enter for a chance to win $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, mentoring sessions from AWS technical experts, and AWS Premium Support Gold for one year.

From our Amazon Payments team: This year, AWS has included an exciting prize from Amazon Payments for the AWS Start-Up Challenge finalist with the most creative monetization strategy and use of Amazon Payments solutions. Winner of the Amazon Payments prize will go home with $10,000 in combined cash and Amazon Payments credits.

To enter, fill out and submit the online application by August 26, 2009. The judging panel will review all of the application and choose the seven best, based on originality and creativity, likelihood of long-term success, monetization strategy, quality of proposal, and effective use of AWS.

The finalists will be announced in October. At that time we will post a video of each finalist and invite the public to vote for their favorite. Then we'll fly all of the finalists to Silicon Valley where they'll present their ideas to the judges' panel during the day, and pitch them to a live audience of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists that night, where the winner will be chosen, announced, and feted.

All runner-up finalists will receive $5,000 in AWS service credits; all entrants with qualified submissions will receive $25 credits.

The Challenge finalist with the most creative monetization model using the Amazon Flexible Payments Service (FPS) or Simple Pay from Amazon Payments will win $10,000 in combined cash and Amazon Payments credits. All finalists using these services will receive $2,500 in Amazon Payments credits. Read more here.

Questions? Check out the contest rules, review the prizes, and scan the FAQ. You may also want to watch the videos we made for the 2007 and 2008 finalists.

Our next webinar : Monetize your innovation with Amazon FPS

In this webinar, we will introduce you to Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS).

Take this opportunity to learn how you can use it to monetize your e-commerce, digital content, online services or social networking application. 
If you have an online business or are a developer working with an online business this webinar is for you.

Register today to discover new ideas and ways to execute payments for your website or application.

When: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT

Our next webinar - Wednesday, March 18...

• We are hosting our next webinar to introduce you to Amazon Payments on Wednesday, March 18th 10:00 AM - 10:45 AM. We'll talk about what we offer for merchants, solution providers and developers working with merchants. And also give you the chance to ask us questions. Reserve your seat now!
  
  
  

Monetize your innovation with Amazon FPS - and don't pay fees for 90 days*

Amazon Payments is offering free payment processing for applications you build and launch on Amazon FPS. We are also launching Amazon FPS Quick Starts, simplified set of APIs that ease integration while maintaining the flexibility of Amazon FPS.
Build your ecommerce, digital goods, online services or social networking application using Amazon FPS and get free payment processing for the first 90 days until total transaction volume reaches $500,000.

Attend our next Amazon FPS webinar  to learn more about the new release and our free offer!

In this webinar, we will introduce you to Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS). Take this opportunity to learn more about Amazon FPS and how you can monetize your innovation with Amazon FPS. If you have an online business or are a developer working with an online business this webinar is for you.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT

Amazon Flexible Payments Service out of Beta with a limited time FREE offer

Amazon Flexible Payments Service advances to General Availability, tops it with a limited time FREE offer

Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS)is out of beta and now is easier to use with Amazon FPS Quick Starts.

Now you, our developers, can enable your applications with common payment transactions such as one time payments, recurring payments and pre-payments in hours rather than days.   Also, with a limited time offer, you can get started free! Build an application using Amazon FPS and get FREE payment processing for the first 90 days until total transaction volume reaches $500,000.

Amazon FPS is the first payments service designed from the ground up for developers.  With Amazon FPS you can accept payments on your website for selling goods or services, raising donations, performing recurring payments, and sending payments.

Amazon FPS Quick Starts are the result of the feedback we received from you on how to enable you to make the most of Amazon FPS feature set. Amazon FPS Quick Starts aggregate various Amazon FPS APIs into a simplified set of APIs that substantially reduce the steps you must take to enable payment processing on your website.

On this occasion we are excited to offer free payment processing for applications you build and launch on Amazon FPS.  Monetize your innovations using Amazon FPS.

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