Judging

Judges

Jonathan Aberman

Managing Director at Amplifier Ventures

Jack Bienko

Deputy Director of Office of Entrepreneurship Education, Small Business Administration

Peter Corbett

CEO at iStrategy Labs

Julie Fajgenbaum

Vice President, Brand and Social Media at American Express OPEN

Sean Greene

Associate Administrator for Investment and Special Advisor for Innovation, Small Business Administration

Alex Howard

Government 2.0 Correspondent at O'Reilly Media

Gwynne Kostin

Director, Mobile of the Office of Citizen Services & Innovative Technologies at the U.S. General Services Administration

Craig Newmark

Founder of craigslist and craigconnects

Nandita Pinisetti

Senior Marketing Manager for Developer and Platform Evangelism at Microsoft

Steve Ressler

Founder and President of GovLoop

Justin Thorp

Marketing Manager at HelloWallet

Mission and Impact [25%]: Does the application meet the goals of the Apps for Entrepreneurs Challenge? The application will be rated on the strength of its potential to make Federal government programs and information more useful to small businesses.
Creativity [25%]: Is the application innovative, creative and interesting?
Use of Required Data [25%]: Does the application use a combination of creative and relevant Federal data sets, including at least one data set from either http://www.sba.gov; http://www.sbir.gov; www.data.gov or http://green.sba.gov? Otherwise, is there an explanation?
Technical Implementation [25%]: Is the application functional, well designed, and simple to use? It is accessible to a wide range of users including those with disabilities?