The conditions to meet in order to join the incubator:
- Founders must be full-time on their project and physically present on site.
- The incubator is open to everyone, EDHEC graduates or not.
- You have a finalized prototype tested on first beta-testers/clients.
- You are able to demonstrate a strong market interest (either through initial sales, a successful crowdfunding campaign, initial funding, an engaged community, etc.) and a significant growth potential.
- You have the desire to be surrounded by other entrepreneurs and are willing to actively participate in the EDHEC Entrepreneurs community (regular mutual aid, responding to school requests, etc.).
- You want to contribute to the improvement of society #makeanimpact 🌱
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☝🏼 For your information, EDHEC students also have the opportunity to apply to be incubated at our Jean Arnault Campus (Roubaix) while continuing their studies. However, the STATION F campus will only be open to them after they have completed their studies.
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⚠️ To join the EDHEC Incubator, you must commit to being physically present throughout your incubation year on campus (STATION F or Campus Jean Arnault).
It is very important for the EDHEC incubator that startups can follow their incubation in person. Your daily presence will allow you to fully experience your incubation year (3 minimum days strongly recommended).
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Our criteria for analysing your application:
How to make a difference?
Here is a non-exhaustive list of criteria that will allow us to appreciate your project and its potential.
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🏁 Project Status
- MVP, prototype finalized and tested
- Market research conducted
- Some active users/customers
- Partners already identified
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- The project meets a real tested and defined need
- Good timing and favorable general context (Covid, legal, etc.)
- Specific and promising market
- Barriers to entry
- Clear and defined value proposition
- Strong potential for growth
- First defined Business Model
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