Realize your entrepreneurial dreams, start-up with Innovation Works!
At Innovation Works (IW) we aspire to be your partner of choice in starting your own company.
With the program that suits you best.
We have built three distinct incubation programs for entrepreneurs who want to start-up a consumer internet, mobile internet or cloud computing business in China:
- Acceleration, our main incubation program for experienced Founders with a clear business idea, with a product prototype and an initial team already in place;
- Jump-Start , our structured, educational, 3-month program for small teams of young, first-time entrepreneurs with an interesting product idea; and
- Entrepreneur-In-Residence (EIR), our program for experienced individual professionals, who are just starting to realize their entrepreneurial ambitions.
What You Can Expect From Us
Led by Lee Kai-Fu , at IW we have brought in the best early-stage-minded professionals to give you and your team support in many ways. IW will use its unique industry network and resources to help you form the best start-up team, find strategic partners and develop your target market. You can count on the expertise of the professional business team at IW to assist you in strengthening your product strategy and business plan. We have also created an extensive network of mentors and a corresponding program of mentoring sessions that is available to you and your teams. In addition to all these, IW will also give you support in recruiting, in registering your company as well as in other legal and accounting matters, in technology and product issues, and in marketing. Everyone at IW is “hands-on” and has the passion and appetite to help you get started for the long road ahead.
IW will provide you and your team with working space in a great start-up environment, incubation services and some seed funding. It will also open the door for you to the early stage investment community in China and abroad, including IW’s own captive fund, the Innovation Works Development Fund (IWDF ).
Once we are in, we are in it for the lifetime of the company, fully aligned with the interests of the entrepreneurs and their team.
At IW we strongly believe in the merits of real incubation but we do not believe in excessive “micromanagement” or a “hand-holding” type of incubation, as this is contradictory to the very nature of entrepreneurship. While we will help you get started in a lean and efficient way with real assistance as well as guidance and advice, you and your team will still need to take the lead and be involved in all day-to-day operational matters of your company. After all, this is your own company, your idea, your product, your own entrepreneurial dream.
What We Expect From You
In order to preserve the quality of incubation and the personal nature in our start-up environment, every year IW will be incubating a limited total number of start-ups in its three programs
This is why at IW we want to work with the very best.
We are looking for the most talented entrepreneurs and project teams in the consumer internet, mobile internet and cloud computing spaces. We will only bring in Founders and project teams that work very well with each other, that can demonstrate their ability to build great products and services, that have good business sense and that understand their target market(s). Above all we want to work with entrepreneurs and project teams that are passionate but humble, persistent but patient and committed for the long road ahead, as start-ups are indeed a marathon race, not a 100m sprint.
On your marks, get set, go!