New entrepreneurs need to know their options once they have an idea they’re ready to scale. At accelerators like Plug and Play Tech Center in Sunnyvale, startups connect with mentors and corporations that can help them go big or go home.
Canice Wu, Plug and Play’s President, seems to like the words “innovative” and “disruptive” (he used them an awful lot when we talked to him) but there are worse words to favor. With the accelerator’s summer deadline for “Startup Camp” fast approaching (May 14, apply here), he said innovation and disruptive business models are the only prerequisites–other than that, there are no rules or restrictions on what new companies they’ll consider.
Wu said Plug and Play has a network of more than 180 VCs and 100 corporations who come to work with both new and established companies in their various programs. The focus is on scale, so much so that even a company that’s finished a quarterly accelerator program can still take advantage of P&P’s network, mentors, and working space after they graduate. (more…)
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