After a first selection, we selected entrepreneurs who had various experiences of failure including cases of disappearance, ie cases of entrepreneurs who had been forced to abandon their business plan, who have changed the design of their old businesses.
The selected entrepreneurs include people like Myshkin Ingawale, 28, of Biosense Technologies, which makes a device that tests women and children for anemia; Luis Duarte, 30, who started YoReciclo (I Recycle) in Monterey, Mexico; and Jamie Yang, 31, founder of a EGG-energy, a company based in Tanzania that sells rechargeable batteries through a portable power grid.
The selected entrepreneurs provided a cross-section of subjects diversified across industry, demographics, and time.
This fact implies that the selected entrepreneurs have a story and training as scientists and, probably, little business orientation.
Fourth, the selected entrepreneurs can provide rather-detailed information for obtaining the information necessary for case studies.
IIG will provide the selected entrepreneurs or teams initial seed funding of up to $150,000, office space, and legal advisors.
In addition to receiving funding, selected entrepreneurs will be paired with mentors from Sesame Workshop's executive team.
Third, the selected entrepreneurs possess certain abilities to innovate but present differences in the degree of integration and embedding of innovative resources of the network.
On the road, selected entrepreneurs will receive advice from mentors culled from Africa's technology centers and incubation facilities, as they travel across 14 countries.
From August-November, the 32 selected entrepreneurs representing 12 different countries (including Argentina!) worked day and night with the program's 75 different mentors.
