If you filled out the form, we'll be in touch with you soon.
There's no need to read anything more on this site now - though we do recommend reading about Steps 2 & 3 below.
After we receive your form, we'll be on the lookout for the appropriate mentors and check whether they can work together as a team on your behalf, with you. When there are appropriate mentors available, you will be invited to submit your idea.
The idea is then checked by experts to determine whether or not it is novel. You make a $25 conditionally-refundable deposit (the site gets none of it). If the idea is found by the mentors on a google-search, the money goes to them, to compensate them for their time (none goes to the site).
However if the idea is determined to be novel, the money is completely refunded and you will get an hour FREE round-table mentoring. WE hope it's novel, because then there is the chance that you and we will make money from it.
To protect your idea, we'll require all mentors to sign a confidentiality agreement, and the presentation of the idea and their response will be recorded.
If your idea is judged to be novel, you are then approved for a 1-hr free accelerator.
After your 1-hr accelerator is completed, you can choose to hire mentors to continue the process. Either some of the round-table experts (if they are available), or perhaps you'll choose to place a brief description of your project on the site and recruit other mentors, especially if you need experts in other fields.
Mentors work with you for a pre-set fee on a freelance basis to help create a coherent business plan and pitch. They will also pay our fee, so that our service is free to you.
Mentors will compete to offer you their services. You'll be able to rate the mentoring you receive, and to choose mentors based on their ratings.
After sufficient mentoring, hopefully you will feel ready to go to meetups to find co-founders and team-mates, and to give honed pitches there and at other pitching opportunities.
In order to help you make good choices you can ask your mentor to attend these meetups with you (in person or virtually), for a per-hour fee set by them, or to have them with you while you browse co-founder or team-mate match-sites. (Your idea may even be so good that one of your mentors might want to become part of your team.)
After all this - with a team and a honed pitch in hand - you can decide whether to apply to accelerators or approach investors (and we can help with that as well).
Some will do it as philanthropy, but we are hoping that many talented & experienced people will also see it as a way to introduce them to Founders who will want to hire them as consultants after the 1-hr accelerator, and also in some cases as an opportunity to discover great ideas and to eventually join with a Founder they met this way, as a team-member. In this way, because of the potential for joining an exiting startup in its very early stages, and because their input will be rated on the site in any case, they will be motivated to give really good advice.
More explanation about the process of checking your idea for novelty: The mentors, not the site, will determine whether your idea is too similar to one that is already being developed - if so, they will send you relevant links and a brief report. However if the idea is novel, they will schedule you for a total of an hour-long FREE session.
You are well-advised to spend some time doing a thorough google-search, and being able to explain how what you are proposing is different than what exists, before sending the idea along. If you wish, you can hire one of the google-search-experts on the site to help you with this step before submitting your idea, but you don't need to do that. Just spend an hour searching (it is only fair to spend an hour not to waste the time of those who are agreeing to spend an hour of their time helping YOU). If you did not do this simple step beforehand and the mentors find the idea in a quick google-search, the money will go to them to compensate them for your having wasted their time. In fact, not only will you lose the 100 NIS but also it may impact the likelihood of your being accepted in the future to make a presentation about another idea. You can appeal the decision if you think it was unjustified.