entrepreneurs – start-up funding, Nov 19 deadline
Organization: SmartNet Alliance (SNA) http://www.SmartNetAlliance.ca
Green-Energy Entrepreneurs – The LaunchPAD: From Idea to Start-Up!
Turn Your Idea Into A Business
6 new entrepreneurs will receive up to $10,000 worth of business support
Deadline for application: November 19, 2014
Ottawa-based SmartNet Alliance (SNA) is offering to assist people with
great green-energy ideas to get into business. The firm is calling for
applications and will select six people with the best ideas. FREE OF
CHARGE, these lucky six will receive up to $10,000 in support to get
their ideas launch-ready.
Janet Stewart, long time Ottawa entrepreneur and President of SNA,
realized that so many people have innovative ideas but don’t know what
to do or where to start if they want to take them to market. As a
result, she and other investors in SNA have developed The LaunchPAD:
From Idea to Start-Up! Available across Canada to anyone who is
interested in starting a green-energy business, this program will take
the individuals through all of the steps to get their business idea
launch-ready, from market studies to payroll.
“We started the Second Cup with a good idea, but we had no idea of all
the steps and all of the decisions that we would have to make just to
get it going. We made many expensive mistakes. I wish that there had
been something like SmartNet Alliance for us.” – Frank O’Dea,
Co-founder of Second Cup
How it works:
• Interested individuals can access the application form at
http://www.SmartNetAlliance.ca
• Deadline for submission is Wednesday, November 19, 2014 – noon.
• 12 applicants will be chosen from the submissions to make their
PITCH in front of a panel of judges on Saturday, November 29.
• Successful applicants will be announced by December 1.
• The program starts on January 12, 2015.
SmartNet Alliance is a virtual business incubator/accelerator with a
specific focus in the energy sector. Funding comes from the energy
industry, principally the Canadian Union of Skilled Workers and
Mindset Catalysts Inc. These progressive-minded organizations are
committed to building companies and creating the jobs of the future in
the green energy space by promoting grass-roots innovation.
http://www.SmartNetAlliance.ca