{"id":10763,"date":"2010-10-21T21:50:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T12:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=10763"},"modified":"2010-10-21T21:50:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T12:50:40","slug":"incubatefund-to-hold-a-boot-camp-for-encouraging-entrepreneurs-in-their-20s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/incubatefund-to-hold-a-boot-camp-for-encouraging-entrepreneurs-in-their-20s\/","title":{"rendered":"IncubateFund To Hold A Boot Camp For Encouraging Entrepreneurs In Their 20s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"IncubateFund's Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/incubatefund_logo-400x75.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"75\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.incubatefund.com\/\">IncubateFund[J]<\/a>, an investment team backed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dena.jp\/en\/index.html\">DeNA<\/a> and it&#8217;s known for having invested in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokelab.co.jp\/eng\/index.html\">Pokelabo<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokelab.co.jp\/eng\/index.html\">Istpika<\/a> (both are social app providers), will have a two-day camp for encouraging potential entrepreneurs to develop and launch their Internet businesses.<br \/>\nThose who want to join the camp have the following requirements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He\/she was born in 1980s.<\/li>\n<li>He\/she is considering incorporating their business but has no corporate entity.\u00a0 Otherwise, his\/her corporate entity was launched later than two years ago, and it has three or its less employees and no fundraising from the third parties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Applicants are requested to submit their business proposals by November 14th.\u00a0\u00a0 The applicants selected by the board of the fund can join a business development camp that will take place at a lodge in Hakone, a Tokyoite weekend resort.<br \/>\nPrior to the camp in early December, IncubateFund&#8217;s lead capitalists will have a networking meet-up tomorrow near Roppongi.\u00a0 This opportunity is fully open to the public, and anyone is welcomed to join unlike the camp, they say.\u00a0 (For more details, see their announcement <a href=\"http:\/\/incubatecamp.com\/meetup\">here[J]<\/a>.)<br \/>\nIncubateFund is formed by four venture capitalists of\u00a0 Toru Akaura (previously working with Japan&#8217;s largest VC firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jafco.co.jp\/eng\/home\/index.html\">JAFCO<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corepeople.jp\/\">Masahiko Honma[J]<\/a> (previously working with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accenture.com\">Accenture<\/a> and JAFCO), Yusuke Murata (previously working with Daiwa SMBC Capital) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.selene-vp.com\/\">Keisuke Wada[J]<\/a>,<br \/>\n<strong>See also:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/15\/social-apps-provider-istpika-gets-2-5-million-from-dena-backed-incubatefund\/\">Social Apps Provider Istpika Gets $2.5 Million From DeNA-Backed IncubateFund<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/03\/tokyos-social-app-provider-pokelabo-fundraises-usd12m-from-dcm-and-mobage-town\/\">Tokyo\u2019s Social App Provider Pokelabo Fundraises USD12M From DCM And Mobage-Town<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IncubateFund[J], an investment team backed by DeNA and it&#8217;s known for having invested in Pokelabo and Istpika (both are social app providers), will have a two-day camp for encouraging potential entrepreneurs to develop and launch their Internet businesses. Those who want to join the camp have the following requirements: He\/she was born in 1980s. He\/she&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/incubatefund-to-hold-a-boot-camp-for-encouraging-entrepreneurs-in-their-20s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IncubateFund To Hold A Boot Camp For Encouraging Entrepreneurs In Their 20s<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[1663],"class_list":["post-10763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","tag-incubatefund","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}