I AM A STARTUP, WHY SHOULD I USE FIWARE LAB? HD

For more information visit the FIWARE Ops Training Portal: http://edu.fi-ware.org/course/category.php?id=10 FIWARE Lab nodes offer a unique environment to support start-up and innovative product bootstrapping. The process of creating a start-up or an innovative product is a challenge. Indeed, the road to success requires a mix of ingredients like technological skills, funding, specific types of resources, mentoring, test-users, etc. This showcase aims to demonstrate how a rich ecosystem offered by the combination of infrastructures (FIWARE Lab – the Federated Infrastructures) and an innovative platform (FIWARE) can effectively support the different needs of acceleration for an innovative idea through: • The availability of appropriate resources capable of supporting the development of FIWARE-based products; • Technical consultancy for the adoption of a Future Internet platform; • Business coaching and mentoring; • Funds to support the product proof-of-concept (pre-seed or seed); • Early-adopters and testers to validate the idea; • Easy portability of the FIWARE product to different areas. Each FIWARE Lab node represents a complete ecosystem designed to fully support the innovation lifecycle. FIWARE Lab nodes offer more than ‘standard cloud-based’ resources (e.g., cloud services, sensors, and networks): for instance, they provide access to geo-localized accelerators, test-users and open data sets. Moreover, the design of FIWARE Lab guarantees the easy migration of an application to any other node belonging to the FIWARE Lab.