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Springboard startup bootcamp open to applications
- stevekennedyuk 16y agoShould be a great new initiative for start-ups in the UK and EU.
- dansingerman 16y agoI wish I was 15 years younger and didn't have a wife, mortgage and child. Actually that's not true at all. What I really mean is I wish this existed 15 years ago.
- pgolding 16y agoFantastic news! Schemes like this drive our economy and cultivate success in so many ways. Really looking forward to supporting Springboard.
- jenslapinski 16y agoLooking forward to it
- jdbradford 16y agofeelin the love. i feel very privileged to be working with some exceptionally talented and generous mentors. so looking forward to 2011.
- harscoat 16y agoThey mention "the programme last year", but could not find who are the alumni? & congrats on the intiative!
- jedc 16y agoOne of the alumni companies was PagerDuty, who went on to get YC funding in the last (YC S10) class.
- neilgd 16y agoAlso tidepowerd - http://tidepowerd.com http://tidepowerd.com
- adamt 16y agoRapportive (YCS10) were part of the 'accidental incubatuor' that kinda got the ball rolling. (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:T3VxyojO3WwJ:springboard.com/start-ups/+springboard+rapportive&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:T3Vxyoj...)
- profquail 16y agoHere's Neil's original article on the Business of Software blog about the 'accidental incubator': http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2009/08/the-accidental-incubator.html http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2009/08/the-accidental-in...
- benwerd 16y agoIt's exciting stuff! I'm psyched to be one of next year's mentors.
- redrory 16y agoIs the site down for anyone else?
- stevejalim 16y agoWas for a while - back up now, it seems
- ig1 16y agoI think this could be interesting, RedGate who are behind SpringBoard seem to be very good at identifying talent. I've met quite a few of the startups they've helped before (pre-incubator stage they used to give interesting startups office space) and they're all very talented people, I believe at least 5 of the guys they've worked with in the past have since gone through YC as well. Globally I think TechStars is the only other seed accelerator that has managed to successfully pull off the YC model, but I suspect if anyone else can do it, it's going to be the SpringBoard guys. (Especially given that increasing difficulty of getting US Visas, SpringBoard might have a significant advantage in appealing to EU startups) I'd be tempted to apply to them myself if I wasn't a sole founder :-)
- pclark 16y agoYou should just apply, if you're talented enough I'm sure they'd accept you. I doubt they have an arbitrary if founder = 1 then reject.
- ig1 16y agoFrom their FAQ: Will you accept single founder teams? Highly improbable, the programme is incredibly intensive. We will actively encourage you to find someone to work with.
- bootcampdk 16y agoGo Jon & team, we're behind you!
- abarrera 16y agoGreat work guys!
- marklittlewood 16y agoWoo hoo! Go Springboard go!
- paul_a_smith 16y agoLooking forward to being part of it!