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February 28, 2011

Apply Today! The Founder Institute's Technology Startup Accelerator

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The Founder Institute  (http://www.founderinstitute.com) is a technology startup accelerator and entrepreneur training program currently on pace to launch over 500 companies per year in over 13 cities worldwide. The program identifies high-potential entrepreneurs using predictive social science testing, and then guides them through weekly company-building sessions featuring a network of over 300 CEO Mentors including leading luminaries from NYC, Silicon Valley and beyond. All program stakeholders, including the participating founders and CEO Mentors, share in the equity generated by companies formed in the program. In addition, participants get access to free and discounted services, and are not required to quit their day job.

Founded in 2009, The Founder Institute aims to globalize Silicon Valley by launching over 1000 meaningful and enduring technology companies per year in over 30 cities worldwide. The Institute currently operates semesters twice a year in Silicon Valley, Singapore, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Houston, Boston, New York, Washington DC, Paris, Brussels and Berlin.

Key highlights of the program include:

* You don't need to quit your day job
* You share in pool of equity for upside and for risk reduction
* There is no idea or team selection bias in the enrollment process
* The Institute encourages market rate investments in companies
* The Institute protects the upside of Founders through Class F and other efforts

Founder Institute is also running a special program, the Female Founder Fellowship Program, for Women Innovators. For more info, see here: http://ow.ly/40Fl2

Apply today at: http://www.founderinstitute.com/apply/42/wsoc. The deadline is March 13.

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This project is looking for the funding organizations which can fund our project and it is basically located at Busega, Lubaga Division, and Kampala District Uganda. This project it's an ICT project under youth. It empowers the youth to inquire the Computer skills and we give them seminars to how they can prevent the HIV/AIDS in their life, entrepreneurship Skills and Customer Care and the entire community, then we have the computer Training, Stationary and the internet cafe
Thanks Sir or Madam we also having some programs in our project like childcare's care, Education, accommodation, feeding and other necessary activities in our project and then how to prevent child drug abuse.

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