Hi Marijan, sorry I probably understood it incorrectly: - you CAN and should apply to Round A (deadline 31.03); if selected execute the acceleration programme and than apply to Round B (deadline 31.08). - you CAN NOT apply to Round A (deadline 31.03) and at the same time to Round B (deadline 30.04). hope it is more clear. best regards, 2015-03-17 20:46 GMT+00:00 Marijan <marijan.net at gmail.com>: > 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 >> > > -- 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... 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