How long can you stay at the Incubateur HEC Paris?
Our quest to find the best incubation duration for a project, a startup, a company.
Quick answer : 3 months, renewable. If you are curious, the following is about our thoughts on how long you could stay with us and why?
« You can stay long enough to become a unicorn »
This sentence of Jacques Birol, one of our best experts, lays down everything: ambition and potential over time. What will be your unicorn or your definition of success and how long should you stay with us to reach it?
Time is the currency of our century
Be on time, just in time, the right time are many concepts around time that respectively save us in our relationships, foster change beyond the automotive industry, and determine success from failure. All offers in the world revolve around two value proposition : to enjoy time and to save time. Time is the currency of our century and how you spend your time is what matters.
Unlimited
As an incubator supporting startups, our natural but still delicate job is to help entrepreneurs save time on building four blocks - product, sales, finance, recruitment - by multiplying quality interaction within our network. Our promise is to enable you to reach in 3 months the objectives you will not have reached in 1 year on your own.
As an incubator developing businesses our mission is to provide the infrastructure and the interface that enables our collective to enjoy time while building robust ventures. We give you the flexibility and freedom to create faster and for the long term.
As an incubator conducting research we aim at matching quantity and quality by analyzing how time is spent and to which benefits. how much time you will spend with us is then to determine together.
3 months
3 months is a relatively short period to plan and long enough to conduct experimentations. Most programs called accelerators have chosen this duration.
Historically, 3 months were the perfect timing to have students working on projects during summer. An opportunity detected for instance by Y Combinator, one of the most famous accelerators in the world. By the way, you can have open access to their library of content!
3 months enable to design intensive programs with objectives and concrete actions to undertake. We call it the roadmap. It creates a sens of urgency both for the participants and the collective.
3 months fit perfectly with the seasons, full of promises with a lot of engagement, recurring as well as mutating.
3 months is a constant challenge to get the job done. If « Learn to Dare » is our philosophy, our challenge is to ask ourselves what we want to do, what we should do and what we need to do. let’s tackle one question per month first.
3 months if repeated enable to make quick changes to the program, whether it be the rules, the participants, the benefits, the culture…
Renewable
Since 2007 we have tried duration of 9 months, 12 months, 6 months and since 2018 we have settled for 3 months, renewable, representing periods when they succeed each other. Our oldest startups are currently in their 12th period.
Renewable, to allow the development of a better interface and infrastructure around you while you start with higher knowledge at each period.
Renewable because we want to build a program that will power companies from 0 to CAC40. And this takes time! Successive periods create a dynamic for the participants and enable to measure progress.
Renewable as we believe in a lifelong program for each member of our collective following 3 pillars : tailor made, à la carte, participative. The benefits are directly linked to your commitment.
Renewable to make iterations, to grow the potential of each other and to assess if it is a satisfying experience on both side.
Ready to join us?
Join with a project, a startup or a company to experience our 3 months and renewable program. We are currently recruiting the next batch that will arrive in October, apply before the 28th of August.
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