CIIE at IIM Ahmedabad supported by UpStart.in, Nokia and Microsoft is organizing iAccelerator 2009, an intensive startup company assistance program geared towards first time technology entrepreneurs in India in the ICT domain, with financial assistance of upto 5 Lakh in each team, Business Mentoring, Consulting, Access to IIMA's Network. The program will run for 4 months, starting 1st May.
Over time, CIIE has realized that the biggest problem that their incubatees face is that the promoters are tech people & find understanding & handling business aspects to be quite an effort. So, they have introduced the concept of Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR). These EIRs are people who want to be entrepreneurs, have basic understanding of technology but more importantly, have industry experience or managerial backgrounds. Read the full article