Fast-Growth Companies
a result of going on the program. From the 2012 intake, Dr. Andrew Lucas, founder of AOS, a software company focused on providing decision-making capabilities for autonomous systems, said, “The
program transforms a
company’s future. Most companies think laterally, because they are too busy day-to-day to dream about their future, which GAP helps them do.”
“The primary research is up there with the best that you can get,” says Phil Chynoweth, operations manager of
Australasian Medical Publishing
Company, which publishes Australian clinical research, evidence based reviews and debates on the important issues affecting
care. They used GAP to
Australian health provide
competitive market research of the US, Canada and Australia.
Another company, CapturePlan,
Who’s it for and how do you take advantage? The program
is designed for
companies that meet the following criteria:
• They must be technology based or provide a technology product or service
develops and deploys store-mapping applications for
in-store marketing,
and joined GAP to help them enter the US market. The CEO, Travis Reddy, said, “The GAP gave us entry into the U.S. We now have an anchor client.” Gavin Evans, CEO of ConnectiX Technologies, which uses a cloud-based data-hub that facilitates seamless workflow integration, said, “The extensive primary research done by independent students gave us an opportunity to interact with the venture capital markets.”
• The product or service must be fully launched and generating sales in a market already • The company must have positive cash flow • The company needs to have 10 or more employees • They must be looking at selling internationally
The program runs from 22 June 2013 to 7 December 2013, and UCLA accepts only around 50 companies in a year – the deadline for applications from companies this year is 1st May 2013.
In case this is of interest, more information is available at the UCLA GAP web site:
http://www.anderson.
ucla.edu/programs-and-outreach/ global-access-program/company- information, or feel free to get in touch with me via Entrepreneur Country.
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