{"id":15902,"date":"2014-01-15T22:20:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=15902"},"modified":"2014-01-15T22:20:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T16:50:26","slug":"accelerator-programmes-to-boost-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/accelerator-programmes-to-boost-startups\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerator programmes to boost Startups!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>A set of startup accelerator programmes will be launched here today to spot and promote talented entrepreneurs from campuses. The programmes will be carried out by North American Association of Indian Professionals (NAAIP) in union with many of the Indian associations in the US. The programmes are a part of the \u2018<strong>Startup 2 Valley<\/strong>\u2019 programme. Young entrepreneurs will be selected from campuses through an array of selections processes. The companies will be provided with a base support for a period of time. The companies will be able to grow and become autonomous during that time.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Startup 2 Valley\u2019 programme consists of the NRI Patron Programme, Sister City Programme and Campus Connect. The \u2018NRI Patron Programme\u2019 will be launched by Minister K C Joseph. The main agenda of this programme is to start innovation clubs in selected colleges and a NRI from US will be appointed as the patron of these clubs. The \u2018Sister City\u2019 programme will be launched by Minister Manjalamkuzhi Ali. Through this programme Indian cities will be spotted and connected with US cities. This programme will really help in the growth of municipal corporations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Campus Connect\u2019 programme will be launched by Minister P K Abdu Rabb. Under this, engineering and postgraduate students will have the provision to get exchange under certain streams between associate universities in India and the US. Students will get a chance to complete their final year degree studies in colleges abroad. After successfully completing the course, the student will obtain a degree from the US University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A set of startup accelerator programmes will be launched here today to spot and promote talented entrepreneurs from campuses. The programmes will be carried out by North American Association of Indian Professionals (NAAIP) in union with many of the Indian associations in the US. The programmes are a part of the \u2018Startup 2 Valley\u2019 programme. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3753,"featured_media":15903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,5],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-15902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-startups-technology","category-technology","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3753"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}