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Admission Criteria

To receive consideration as a client, the business owner or entrepreneur:

  • must be a start-up or early stage business (usually less than two years old). An older business may be considered if there is a major change in products, market or ownership.
  • must have prepared a full and complete business plan supporting a feasible business concept, product or service
  • have sufficient capital or revenue stream to cover operating expense and cost of goods for a minimum of six months
  • be prepared to create a three year cash flow projection showing a debt service to cash flow of not less than 2.0
  • show the potential to create employment
  • demonstrate a willingness to conduct business in an open, collaborative and cooperative fashion to include meeting the coaching and consulting requirements of the incubator.
  • Have an intent to remain in the geographical area of influence represented by AXIS.

Any candidate who does not possess a business plan or the cash flow projections and seeks admission to the incubator may elect to:

  • Enter AXIS through completion and recomendation of our pre-accelerator.
  • Enter into a Strategic Coaching agreement with Business & Entrepreneurial Services at the Francis Tuttle Technology Center

Community workspace, Anchor Status and Temporary status applicants
Individuals wishing to take advantage of the communtiy workspace must be current or past participants in our pre-accelerator program. Companies seeking access to the incubator in a non-client status should contact the Director to discuss the appropriate application procedure.

Admission Process

The client applicant must complete the on-line application and then participate in an interview with the AXIS Director. If the applicant meets the admission criteria, then a 15 minute presentation by the applicant will be scheduled for the Admissions Committee*. The applicant will be admitted by a majority vote of the committee. All applicants accepted into the program will undergo a background check.

*Upon approval of the incubator director, graduates of the AXIS pre-accelerator or another AXIS preferred pre-accelerator or accelerator program can be admited to the incubator without completing the admissions committee interview. These clients will need a letter of recomendation from the sponsoring program and the program will need to have met a set of criteria avliable on request from the incubator director. 

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