Connect with other entrepreneurs, inventors and dreamers!

Here you can brainstorm, swap ideas, blog, share photos & videos, meet new friends, and maybe even find your future business partner or investor! Who knows, you could even become best friends with the next Bill Gates (with a slightly cooler wardrobe).

Would you like to become CEO of your own company?

Then we would like to hear about it and possibly invest our time and money into turning your genius ideas into reality! You Be the VC is for entrepreneurs like you who believe that you have what it takes to build and run your own company. Please create a profile and submit your idea. Your idea is safe with us. Please read our confidentiality agreement to better understand how you and your idea are protected.

You tell us who wins!

You judge the entries and help us decide who gets their idea catapulted from concept to functioning company. Winners will receive guidance from some of the top entrepreneurial minds in the country. These companies include Google, WPP, GrandCentral, Pownce and Slide. The winners of the competition will also have unparalleled access to professional advisors from the top legal firms Foley and Lardner and Burns & Levinson, as well as renowned accounting firm Deloitte and Touche and many others. Operations and office expenses as well as a stipend for living expenses in Cambridge, MA will also be part of the winner's package.

You don't need to have a business idea to join.

Maybe you're just looking for some inspiration or to communicate with smart, innovative, "let's break-new-ground" people like yourself. YOU BE THE VC is the social network for you!