Weconomics Accelerator Program

– program for social innovation and technology driven entrepreneurship –

Under the motto: together, we are stronger, Weconomics offers its partners an accelerator program. Weconomics aims to encourage new entrepreneurship and accelerate ideas, communities, projects, talents, and startups without the necessary administrative, legal, tax, marketing, financing, or technology burden for the entrepreneur. In the first few years, startups can use Weconomics commonalities and mainly concentrate on development

Involve people into a movement instead of selling a solution

Weconomics is a commonality that support communities, talents, professionals, projects, and startups as much as possible with, for example, branding, story-telling, marketing, sales, communication, public relations; lab facilities, funding, grants, accounting, financial statements, payroll administration, tax returns, technology, IT support, operations (planning, confirmations, follow up), a shared data infrastructure (WECONET) with a Personal Data Service for example; new business/operating models (NOMAD) and transformation program (APOLLO) including the Weconomics academy and certified program.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
(Henry Ford)

The accelerator program wants to strengthen a part (a community/project/startup) within the context of the whole. Accelerating a part = strengthening the whole (Weconomics). These two goals are complementary. We believe in the Ubuntu philosophy: I am because we are. This means that when we improve an entrepreneur’s business, the whole ecosystem should improve also. This systemic thinking is the basis of our accelerator program.

Our focus and connection with communities/projects/startups
Weconomics is driven by social innovation and empowered by technology. Our focus:

  • Start with ‘Idealized Design’ to organize the next future.
  • Because our common future requires a different business- and operating model, we want to support entrepreneurs in a different way.
  • We belief that the old (Anglo-American accelerator model) does not work sufficiently for society (idea -> financing -> development -> exit venture capitalist), where nine out of ten entrepreneurs can fail if only one successful startups becomes a unicorn.
  • Instead, we provide a kind of umbrella and together with the entrepreneur, we create the conditions that makes the community, idea, project, startup and the whole great and successful.
  • Startups don’t have to develop a (data) infrastructure on their own.
  • At the core of our approach we offer help from our academy, certified program, experience lab, community-, media- en investment platform and a lot of partnerships.

Develop your community, idea or project with Weconomics
You can temporarily ‘place’ your community, idea, project or startup in the Weconomics accelerator program. But you stay in charge. The first transaction, the insertion of the project, we call the inbound transaction, the second, disconnecting it again, the outbound transaction. The entrepreneur has always the first choice. Outbound means, the project:

  1. goes back to entrepreneur and separates from Weconomics or
  2. stays within Weconomics or
  3. a combination of these two (joint venture)

A project can also be forked or merged with other communities, projects or organizations, or taken over by a third party. Agreements are made in advance about the outbound transaction.

Benefits
Some of the benefits of the accelerator program are:

  • all the benefits of our fellowship
  • part of a large and active network together with our partners
  • 424+ partners, projects and startups to work with
  • sharing costs for overhead (staff, housing, lab, service token)
  • together we create the circumstances that thrives your idea/project
  • your community, idea, project or startup is easier to finance
  • you can find and bind talents through our certified program
  • you can use a commonality infrastructure (file sharing, platforms, channels)

Contact us for more information.

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