The boot camp will take place at Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. We require all teams that are selected to be part of iAccelerator 2011, to move to CIIE for three month duration from November 1, 2011 to January 31, 2012.

During the boot camp, iAccelerator team and Angel investors will provide active mentoring to our investee companies. Moreover, we will also involve relevent industry experts on our network as needed. During the course of three months, we will setup interviews and Q&A sessions with industry experts in some aspect of startup – founders, venture capitalists, executives from tech companies, journalists, company secrateries, accountanct, patent specialists, lawyers and more. All our activities will be geared towards providing our investee comapnies with

business support:

• work with start-ups on their business plan
• help them design products that functional and user friendly, which will provide customer delight and keep bringing them back
• bring technical mentors/experts to help architect product that are secure, perform as expected under heavy load and scalable to support large userbase
• impart our knowledge and use our network to market product through press, digital and social media channels
• teach to define and measure customer-driver metrics and acquire initial customers through our network as well as distribution on search, social and mobile platforms.

infrastructure support:

• help you find and hire first employees
• provide infrstructure support in terms of office & meeting place, broadband connection, server hosting etc.
• get your company incorporated if its not already done
• bring consultants who can help you decide what to patent and when

and lastly, investment support (apart from providing Rs. 5 Lacs in seed funding):

• introduce our startups to right investors
• teach them how to pitch and close a deal
• provide a chance to showcase their product and business plan in fron of early stage investors.