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iGen Foundation puts a business idea in better company
A Melbourne charity pairs entrepreneurship with the art of meeting people outside your own circle. Its most useful lesson may be that a business plan needs a social life.
Entrepreneurs Academy and the business of getting started
A good idea still needs customers, accounts and someone willing to ask awkward questions. Ireland’s Entrepreneurs Academy teaches that less glamorous - and rather useful - part of entrepreneurship.
Virgin StartUp lends money. The useful part comes after.
A personal loan can buy equipment. Virgin StartUp pairs it with people who can help you decide what to do next - and is rethinking who gets through the door.
PICTI learned that a startup needs more than a bright idea
Palestine’s nonprofit ICT incubator connects the unglamorous essentials: training, legal help, workspace and access to capital. Its history offers a practical lesson in building the conditions that let entrepreneurs work.
Foundervine knows talent needs an introduction
A good business idea can travel only so far without the right people. Foundervine builds the programmes, partnerships and introductions that help overlooked founders get further.
Maine’s $600 Ticket to a Bigger Business
The Maine Center for Entrepreneurs puts veteran operators, retail data and a roomful of peers within reach of small businesses. The real work begins when a founder has to act on the advice.
KCSourceLink Built a Business Help Desk for an Entire City
Kansas City already had plenty of people willing to help entrepreneurs. The missing product was a map - and the trust to make the handoffs work.
InovAtiva opens the startup door. Founders still have to sell.
Brazil’s public-private accelerator offers free mentorship without taking equity. Its harder lesson: a clever product still has to win a customer.
Udyogwardhini teaches the business behind the business
In Nashik, an entrepreneurship academy puts dehydrators, export paperwork and warehouse visits on the syllabus. Its proposition is practical: learn how the business works before you spend money starting it.
Zagreb Has a Workshop for Startups. The City Helps Pay the Bill.
At ZICER, founders can move from a subsidized office to a prototype, a pitch and a shot at public funding. The revealing detail is how much of the machinery sits under one roof.
Andalucía Open Future offers a place to grow - and takes no equity
Four hubs, more than 80 mentors and no equity fee: Andalucía Open Future gives technology founders room to build in southern Spain. The real commitment is showing up, testing the business and learning to sell.
MyidEA wants your startup investor-ready. You keep the equity.
The Romanian accelerator turns business lessons, pointed feedback and investor introductions into a program founders can buy without surrendering shares. Its next test is making that formula work for more kinds of entrepreneurs.