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

Marijan marijan.net at gmail.com
Tue Mar 17 21:57:47 CET 2015


FAST! so happy with your help!

Option1 you wrote is what we are looking for.

Thank you again my friend.

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 9:55 PM, Nuno Varandas (ipn.pt) <nvarandas at ipn.pt>
wrote:

> 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
>>>>
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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
>>>
>>> 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
>
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