It is easy to get seed money to start up a new idea and test it; it's hard to keep an idea that you've tested on the development track: that is, to develop and maintain a research program.
Khoj's first initiative in 1997 was to organize a workshop for 12 Indian and 12 international artists in order to exchange ideas and start up an artistic dialogue.
When I got the idea to start up a new lit mag, I thought, Well, here's somebody who will give himself to the endeavour.
Anyone who has a unique idea can start up a small business, and the summer is the perfect time to try it".
Another helpful text, "Kidpreneurs," taps into the playful nature with starting up and taking an idea into a viable working business model.
Phil Brookes, ACM's director, is a former musician who first had the idea of starting up a guitar workshop – in his mother's garage – back in 1993.
Our cloud- based mobile platform enables businesses to capture documents and photos from remote Werkers and customers.
Closer to Y Combinator (Silicon Valley) and TechStars (Boulder, Colorado), this is a full time programme to accelerate early stage digital start-ups from an idea to version one of a product/service during a 16 week programme.
And when a successful investor such as Peter Thiel offers undergraduates $100,000 fellowships to drop out of college and work on their start-up ideas, the idea that graduate education can be a springboard for entrepreneurs begins to look counterintuitive.
The winner will have the rare opportunity to sit down with Ron Conway and discuss his or her start up idea.
