The Propeller Venture Accelerator Fund is an initiative of The Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dublin City University. It has €1 milllion with which to fund up to twenty-four early stage companies over a two year period.
Gordon McConnell is Deputy-CEO and Director of Business Development for the DCU Ryan Academy is a strong supporter of the Lean Startup methodology, “It is really about getting the product out there. You can sit in a room for six months and develop a product that nobody wants or needs.”
Up until about a year ago the Ryan Academy was mostly concerned with training. But using funding and support models such as TechStars and Y Combinator the focus has shifted to a hands-on results focused incubation process for startups. Gordon says, “We would see ourselves as being ‘pracademic’ as opposed to being academic.”
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Author: Tom Murphy
