[Fiware-acceleration-help] FIWARE and SOUL-FI questions

Marijan marijan.net at gmail.com
Tue Mar 17 21:46:37 CET 2015


Thank you very much for your information.

#5 then I can't apply to Round A and later to Round B with the same project?
Round A to make a proper business plan and Round B for execution of the
project as intended by the Round B program.


Marijan

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:40 PM, Nuno Varandas (ipn.pt) <nvarandas at ipn.pt>
wrote:

> Hi Marijan,
>
> answers directly in you email below...
>
> regards,
>
> 2015-03-17 9:18 GMT+00:00 Marijan <marijan.net at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have few questions to ask, please help.
>>
>> 1. I have a team of people for Startup but they won't apply officially
>> because they are not sure will we get funds or not, and in that time they
>> might get some other job.
>> So basically question is can I apply alone and if we get funds then I
>> apply them to the project?
>>
> *teams of 1 person are not good teams. most of accelerators will not
> finance such projects.*​
>
>
>>
>> 2. Do we need to open SME company or wait funds first? if we need to open
>> company is any type of company ok?
>>
> *to apply you do not need to have an open SME, but will be requested to
> create one if you are awarded and want to sign contracts.*​
>
>
>>
>> 3. I don't see information where it says rules for spending money that we
>> get. Question is can we spend the money for salaries? or money-funds must
>> be spent for something else?
>>
> *​There is information available for each accelerator. Besides this
> differs from accelerator to accelerator.*
>
>
>
>> 4. About the SOUL-FI, information is no that fully clear so I have to ask.
>> On your website everywhere it says you don't take % of the startup, but
>> nowhere it says which is critical info that we have to fund 25% of the
>> given funds - which I just saw in the "01. Fact Sheet Round A and Round
>> B.pdf".
>>
> *​0% equity*
> *we make a co-finance of 75%. The 25% of your funding can be personnel. or
> others, it is up to you to present, we will evaluate. *
>
>  Startups are usually startups if you understand :-) therefore in Round B
> how do we get 25% or €18,750 euro out of €75k budget. For startups is
> difficult to get those funds. And how is that different from any other EU
> grants? There are EU ICT grants with ratio 85:15 which is better than this.
>
>>
>> At first FIWARE looked as great opportunity, but when I read everything
>> now it doesn't look that way :-)
>>
>
> *I respect your opinion, but do not agree.*
> *​FIWARE is supporting startups and entrepreneurs eager to use the FIWARE
> technology within their products! It is true that funding is an attractive
> incentive but besides investing in individual SMEs we are providing
> Acceleration services in order to improve the rate of success of those
> SMEs. *
> *H2020 funds are quiet different in terms of: teams/ consortium's/
> funding/ domains/ application form/ orientation towards startups/ ...*
>
>
>> 5. Also if we get funds from Round A, then we should apply with same
>> project to Round B, is that correct? because Round A is applying the
>> project for designing the concept and creating a business plan.
>>
>
> *No it isn't. ​Either you apply to Round A either you apply to Round B. *
> *Round A is for less mature projects (therefore the support on proof of
> concept and business model) while Round B is focus on​ development and
> pilots. A project can not be in both stages at same time!*
>
> *hope to have clarified your doubts.*
>
>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Marijan Supec
>>
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>
>
> --
>
> Nuno Varandas
>
> *Executive Coordinator of SOUL-FI* (*S*tartups *O*ptimizing *U*rban *L*ife
> with *F*uture *I*nternet)
>
> Instituto Pedro Nunes - Information technology and Systems Laboratory
>
> Phone: +351 239 700 988; Mobile: +351 910 063 189; Skype: nvarandas
>
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