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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fiware-acceleration-help mailing list >> Fiware-acceleration-help at lists.fi-ware.org >> https://lists.fi-ware.org/listinfo/fiware-acceleration-help >> >> > > > -- > > 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 > > Website: soul-fi.ipn.pt; Twitter: @SOULFI_FP7 > <https://twitter.com/SOULFI_FP7>; F6S: http://www.f6s.com/fiware-soul-fi > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.fiware.org/private/fiware-acceleration-help/attachments/20150317/67e4eed2/attachment.html>
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