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Tuesday, 26 May 2015

FbStart now offers up to $ 80,000 to help start-ups in their growth

The FbStart program enters its second year of existence: the opportunity for Facebook to strengthen its aid package to the growth of mobile start-ups.

FbStart helping the start-ups
For those who had not yet had the opportunity to discover,  FbStart is the program unveiled by Mark Zuckerberg at F8 keynote in 2014.

The origin of this offer takes place in the many discussions that took place during the events organized by Facebook to its developer community. Given the strong demand for access to tools to help them build, grow and monetize their mobile applications (the famous mantra "build, grow & monetize" repeated by the CEO of Facebook), the social network decided to move to the action.

The first thing that Facebook could offer was obvious: the quality of mentorship from their expert teams. To which it was easy for them to add access to internally developed tools like Parse .

But the teams also used Facebook many external services in their daily lives, whether tools like Asana, MailChimp or Zendesk. They were then see all these companies to become partners FbStart program, enabling them to offer access to many benefits (free subscriptions, discounts, credits, etc.)

The first year and brought together the advantages of companies like Adobe, Appurify, Asana, bluejeans, Salesforce desk, Hootsuite, MailChimp, Parse, Proto.io, Quip, SurveyMonkey, Transifex, UserTesting and Workable. 3800 start-ups were able to enjoy these benefits by participating in one of the two programs in place.

Indeed, FbStart was divided into two separate programs named  Bootstrap Track and Accelerate Track. The program Boostrap focuses on just launched applications, while Accelerate  helps the growth of applications already well established.

FbStart Version 2

For his 2015 release, FbStart Announces Pre-Launch Track  to provide the right tools to start-ups that have not yet launched their application (provided benefits up to $ 15,000).

8 new partners also come to join those already present last year, not least. Indeed, you will find advantages for GitHub, Zendesk, Balsamiq, App Annie,  Mobile Action, Namecheap, TransparentBusiness and Yandiki.

Making the pack "Bootstrap" to bring up to $ 30,000 of benefits ($ 5,000 last year) and his pack "Accelerate" spend 30,000 to $ 80,000.

Facebook also announced two new additional benefits packages for entrepreneurs who would specialize in the "Social Good" or in Gaming.

The first will be an excellent opportunity for these start-ups be done by mentor teams Internet.org, while the second category will have access to Facebook's gaming teams for a more personalized mentoring.

Facebook is quick to remind a peculiarity: there is absolutely no reason not to enroll in FbStart . Indeed, the programs are free and require no compensation. All start-ups wishing to accelerate the growth of its application may therefore apply in minutes and cross your fingers to be accepted into the program.
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