Upcoming international startup / seed / idea incubator & accelerator program deadlines

Thanks to Jueri Kaljundi for compiling a great list about upcoming incubator and accelerator programs: NYC Seedstart (New York City, USA): February 28 The Openfund (Athens, Greece): February 28 i/o ventures (San Francisco, CA, USA): March 1 SproutBox (Bloomington, IN, USA), March 1 Y Combinator (Mountain View, CA, USA): March 3 Morpheus (India): March 10 Startl (Philadelphia, [...]

new renewable Energy start-up incubation program in India

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt. of India and the Centre for Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship took its  first step towards bridging the gap between technology and business innovation in the field of renewable energy. CIIE, under it endeavor of renewable energy search that was launched with the Ministry of New and Renewable [...]

Join the Unreasonable Institute 2010!

The Unreasonable Institute will give social entrepreneurs wings! The Institute annually selects and brings together 25 young social entrepreneurs (Unreasonable Fellows) from across the globe for a 10-week summer institute in Boulder, Colorado. During the camp fellows will incubate their ideas with skill training and mentorship to provide their ideas with traction. They will than [...]

Incubating Japanese entrepreneurs

Interesting article in Forbes about incubating musicians in Japan and the difference the support of one large japanese company can make to start-ups: Office workers in Tokyo’s Marunouchi building often stop on their lunch breaks to listen to a concert held in the lobby. After the show they can buy the CD–or sign up to [...]

Venture Incubation in China

Finally l found the time to catch up reading a couple of interesting research papers which had been stored on my “to read” desktop folder for the last year or so. One of the interesting papers was “Approaches to Business Incubation: A Comparative Study of the United States, China and Brazil“, by Aruna Chandra. While [...]