About 25 years ago, at the age of 16, Sara Lynn Farnsworth was in a touch of destination and seemed to be paralyzed in the chest. But the years of rehabilitation, despite everything he learned to walk with a cane. However, about five years ago, she learned that she needed something else to help her manage long distances. This meant another device of an electric scooter or a wheelchair: a light and fast electric scooter capable of adapting gently and being transported in a vehicle. “I needed anything that did not exist,” he said.
Last year, he learned the pilot from a new program prior to the four -week action for disabled vendors with technology -oriented ideas, but not much more than that. Called Venture Labs, controlled through 2Gether International, a start accelerator for the disabled and JPMorganchase founders. It has been accepted and now hopes to enter a 2GE accelerator program for new extra companies in its trajectory.
Recently, Venture Labs introduced its first program prior to previous action with around 30 entrepreneurs. “We are turning history into other people with disabilities in the business field, while the assembly of their need for a network,” said Santiago García Méndez, director of the 2GI network for Venture capital laboratories and a series entrepreneur in series that also has two unchales and two nephews with desires.
2Gether-International (2GI) began about five years ago, inaugurating a tendency to corporations in the stadium of controlled seeds through people with disabilities. But its founders learned that there is a need for a program aimed at the founders in a phase still passed, specifically for disabled vendors who tend to have little access to financing.
“We learned that there were many other people with ideas, but the accelerator program only for new existing companies,” explains Méndez.
The founders of Venture Labs made the decision that 4 weeks were enough to supply a program capable of helping marketing specialists to validate their ideas. This would come with an Auto-Rhythmé program to examine presented through videos of one hour on topics such as how to identify buyers and create a declaration of challenge, as well as organization sessions to talk about tasks and listen to invited speakers, sometimes the own Founders Task tasks can in the end produce documents to come in a presentation game. Méndez also connects participants with mentors, who are experts in applicable technological experience.
Another main objective: for the loneliness of the technique. Although this is a challenge for all entrepreneurs, this is a challenge for disabled entrepreneurs, according to Méndez. There is also a cat online on Wednesday to attend building a community sensation. “These are links that can last forever,” he says.
The program ends with internal competition, with the aim of increasing the budget as much as living how those occasions look at.
During the next two years, 2Gether plans to be bigger than its pre -school and accelerators in Latin America, to Méndez.
As for Farnsworth, he plans his company in Las Vegas, Plantpus mobility scooters, will go to disabled clients, as well as others who need a simple way to send themselves to long distances. And expects to assume disorders similar to the manufacture and distribution of scooters.
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