Round One
Complete the idea entry form as the first step to launching your idea.

Round Two
If your team is selected as a semifinalist, please follow the venture plan guidelines for submitting your plan and video in round two.
Venture Plan Guidelines

Round Three
Teams selected for the final round of competition should consult the final event guidelines when preparing for the trip to Austin.
Final Event Guidelines

Intellectual Property Guidelines

• The authors of each social venture plan will retain all rights to their plan regarding its use at all times prior to and following the competition except as stated below. Due to the nature of the competition, we will not ask judges, reviewers, staff or the audience to agree to or sign non-disclosure statements for any participant.
• All public sessions of the competition, including but not limited to oral presentations and question/answer sessions, are open to the public at large. Any and all of these public sessions may be broadcast to interested persons through media, which may include radio, television and the Internet. Any data or information discussed or divulged in public sessions by entrants should be considered information that will likely enter the public realm, and entrants should not assume any right of confidentiality in any data or information discussed, divulged or presented in these sessions.


• The University of Texas at Austin, RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service and Dell, Inc, the organizers of the Dell Social Innovation Competition, may make photocopies, photographs, videotapes and/or audiotapes of the presentations, including the business plan and other documents, charts or material prepared for use in presentation at the Dell Social Innovation Competition. Students retain all proprietary rights. The University may use the materials in any book or other printed materials and any videotape or other medium that it may produce, provided that any profits earned from the sale of such items is used by the University solely to defray the costs of future competitions. The University has non-exclusive world rights, in all languages and in all media, to use or to publish the materials in any book, other printed materials, videotapes or other medium and to use the materials in future editions thereof and derivative products.