The New On-Ramp to Entrepreneurship
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From hyper-growth tech-enabled startups and main street businesses to impact ventures and everything in between, the Idea Accelerator helps new builders get started on their entrepreneurial journey in an entirely unique way.
Participants learn to build things quickly and inexpensively by leveraging rapid experiments, no-code / low-code tools, and small bits of funding from our Pebble Fund. We increase the odds of success by building alongside rookie entrepreneurs. Together, we turn builders’ good ideas into great ones and prove which great ideas can become successful, launched ventures.
Anyone with a new or novel idea is welcome. We not only level the playing field, we demolish the barriers to entrepreneurship once and for all, and provide a pathway for all ideas (big or small) to reach their full potential (no matter where or who they come from).
A growing wave of technology-driven megatrends is transforming and redefining the mobility industry, and with it comes incredible opportunities for new ideas, innovations and ventures. Together with our partners, we’re empowering new builders everywhere to bring their novel ideas to life and powering a mobility revolution.
Veterans own over 1.7 million businesses in this country, applying their resiliency, leadership and team-building skills to grow ventures. Through our sponsors we enable veterans and their spouses seeking to get started on an entrepreneurial venture to learn the most effective approaches to doing so.
Together with Heartland Forward, we’re stimulating entrepreneurial thinking and getting ideas off the sidelines in communities across America’s heartland states. Anyone with a creative and unexpected idea for a new business or for solving a problem facing their heartland community is encouraged to apply for one of our three cohorts per year.
We’re working with hospitals, health systems, innovators and funders around the world to find and fuel the most promising ideas for improving and reimaging healthcare for the future. From technologies, tools and platforms to entirely new service delivery models, we’re helping launch the most innovative new ventures.
More than half of Americans participate in outdoor recreation activities, and many of them have ideas for promising new companies. Together with industry partners, we’re helping unearth those ideas everywhere, from urban centers to small towns, tourist destinations, and rural communities and supporting every aspect of the country from America’s iconic natural landscapes to the strength of rural communities and U.S. manufacturing.
Women entrepreneurs are launching new businesses, developing innovative products and disrupting established industries in droves, but we’ve barely scratched the surface of the potential female founders hold. Together with our funding partners, we provide a no-cost, no-risk onramp (and funding!) for any woman with a novel idea to get started.
Education and training have long been considered routes to economic security, but current approaches leave many people unprepared for high-demand, living-wage jobs and accelerating trends toward automation and remote work are exacerbating this challenge. Together with partners like Walmart and Heartland Forward, we’re on the hunt for novel ideas, creative approaches and solutions across the nation.
Customers are more willing to try new products than ever before and digital channels make it easier than ever for innovators to market and sell products directly to them. Together with our partners we provide funding, resources and programs anyone with a new product idea can tap to get started as an entrepreneur.
Builders Successfully Launched Or Expanded A Venture
Of Builders Felt Significantly More Qualified After Participating
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We’re on a mission to find, build and fund in an entirely new way.
Of Builders Said The Program Changed The Way They Approach Problem Solving
Of Builders Had An Increased Sense Of Personal Agency After Participating
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