- Wanted: entrepreneurs with innovative ideas in the area of mobile communications
- hub:raum, General Assembly and betahaus will get you in shape for your own start-up in eight weeks
- Competent training program teaches important skills and relevant contacts
With its Accelerator program, hub:raum - the incubator at Deutsche Telekom - provides innovators with a new way to perfect their ideas. "There are a lot of teams with good approaches in Europe, but they are turned down by investors because they don't have that perfect final touch yet - whether in their business model, technical architecture, user interface or elsewhere. To help good teams get fewer rejections, we have launched our Accelerator program, for which we are looking specifically for entrepreneurs with ideas related to mobile communications," explains Peter Borchers, head of hub:raum. The Accelerator program helps potential entrepreneurs in three specific areas:
- Final touch: custom-tailored courses fill knowledge gaps to help perfect the concept, the business model, the technology or the design
- The right partners: contact with other entrepreneurs helps to complete the team (P.S.: individual entrepreneurs can also apply and then search for a team).
- Creative, innovative environment: talks with mentors and like-minded people help to develop approaches and make important contacts
To this end, the team at hub:raum has joined forces with two powerful, competent partners: the instructors of General Assembly - a global network of campuses for technology, business and design founded in New York - will be holding their proven courses in Germany for the very first time. Each week of the course will put a specific topic on the agenda, such as financing, design, business modelling, PR, marketing, legal aspects and many more. betahaus Berlin, one of the best-known meeting points for Berlin's start-up scene, is providing the necessary office space. The highlight at the end of the eight-week intensive course: the entrepreneurs will pitch their ideas to a selected group of investors and the hub:raum team, giving them an opportunity to obtain financing or be accepted into hub:raum's incubator program. Interested entrepreneurs can apply on the web site at https://www.hubraum.com/en/accelerator by October 12. The Accelerator program will start on November 19. First participants of the hub:raum Accelerator program will be announced at the HY Berlin Startup Competition on October 16th.
About Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom is one of the world’s leading integrated telecommunications companies with almost 130 million mobile customers, 33 million fixed-network lines and over 17 million broadband lines (as of June 30, 2012). The Group provides products and services for the fixed network, mobile communications, the Internet and IPTV for consumers, and ICT solutions for business customers and corporate customers. Deutsche Telekom is present in around 50 countries and has over 233,000 employees worldwide. The Group generated revenues of EUR 58.7 billion in the 2011 financial year - more than half of it outside Germany (as of December 31, 2011). About General Assembly Founded in January 2011, General Assembly is a global network of campuses that helps individuals create opportunities through community and education in technology, entrepreneurship and design, through a wide variety of online and offline, formal and informal learning opportunities. General Assembly’s flagship campus is located in New York and has partnered with governments and local organizations internationally to bring educational programming in cities across the world including San Francisco, Los Angeles, London and Sydney, with outposts in Austin, Boston and Philadelphia. About betahaus betahaus is a Coworking space for creative brains, startups and maker! With locations in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Sofia and Barcelona betahaus is the biggest Coworking space in Europe. On an area of about 2000 square meters in Berlin Kreuzberg betahaus is offering event and office space as well as everything else that creatives and startups need. More information under www.betahaus.de.