All businesses must start with a concept, but expanding that concept into a successful, fully functioning venture involves significant work, money, time, and patience. Understanding these entrepreneurial challenges, accelerators such as the ones listed here offer vital support through funding, professional networks, events, and other resources necessary to take any startup to the next level.
The Startup Law Initiative at Berkeley Law (SLI), an initiative of the University of California, offers free incorporation services to entrepreneurs.
SLI’s services allow founders to overcome costly barriers to conducting business. Founders work with Berkeley Law students and top Bay Area law firms that specialize in corporate law and emerging markets.
Other services include stock purchase agreements, indemnification agreements, and corporate bylaws. We are currently accepting applications for entrepreneurs looking to incorporate their businesses this fall.
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Companies are beginning to implant microchips in employees to improve productivity, security, and healthcare. No, this is not a scene out of a dystopian sci-fi film, it’s happening right now. The chips are typically the size of a grain of rice and are inserted under the skin in a relatively painless process.
Three Square Market, a US company, implanted RFID chips in the hands of more than half its 80 employees. The majority were excited to try out the new technology once the risks and rewards were clearly explained to them. The chips enable them to do things like open doors, log onto their computers, and purchase snacks from company vending machines with a wave of their hands. In the future, we’ll see chips that have advanced features, like GPS tracking, voice activation, and vital sign monitoring.
Quesnay enables Fortune 500 companies to partner with startups through innovation competitions and mentorship programs. Quesnay’s Female Founders in InsurTech 2020 is open to all startups with a female founder, co-founder, CEO, or C-Suite leader with solutions relevant to the insurance industry.
Eligible startups must apply before the Submission Deadline on July 26.
Applicants can find more information about the program timeline, requirements, and our prize offerings by visiting the competition site.
Researchers from the University of California (Irvine), Notre Dame University, and the University of Colorado Boulder are looking for startup teams for a research study with the goal to understand factors that lead to effective, high-performing teams. Participation in this study is a unique opportunity for you and your team to gain invaluable and actionable insights into your team’s performance and how to improve it. At the same time, your participation will help to improve the lives of people who are living and working through both current and potential future pandemics.
The study should only take 3-4 hours of your time over a ten-week period. You will receive up to $350 in Amazon gift cards for your efforts (see additional information and criteria below). Furthermore, they will provide you (and only you) with your data and your results to help you work more effectively.
This study has been approved by the university human subjects review board. They will guarantee that all your data will be kept confidential, and identified in the analyses only by a random identification code.
The South Korean government is working to transform the country’s economy for another century of success, ultimately raising employment, the GDP and Korea’s place in the world. In order to do this, the government is supporting talented entrepreneurs and promising startups, to turn South Korea and Pangyo Creative Economy Valley into a global startup hub in Asia.
Do you have a startup company? Live and work with living expenses paid? Apply to the global startup competition: The K-Startup Grand Challenge!
Benefits:
• 60 companies will be selected
• Free office & project space in South Korea
• Coverage for living expenses for 3.5 months
• Up to $120,000 in grant offered
• Top 4 startups get additional grants (total $120,000)
Brent Keltner has joined Founders Space as a mentor. He is President of Winalytics and created the company’s value-driven growth methodology. Winalytics helps client reach their top growth potential by consistently positioning and qualifying around buyer value in go-to-market and sales execution strategies.
The advantages of moving from product- to value-driven growth accrue throughout the buyer lifecycle. Value-drive growth increases prospecting success, accelerates deal velocity, and increases deal value through better negotiations and quicker account expansion.
Prior to starting Winalytics, Brent spent 10 years as a revenue leader in enterprise to early stage companies at Kaplan, Eduventures, and CollegiateLink and 10 years as a Ph.D. social scientist at Stanford and the RAND Corporation. Brent lives in Boston’s West End with his wife Ann-Marie, son John Henry, and daughter Anna. When not at work, he enjoys the practice of Uechi Ryu Karate
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