{"id":30407,"date":"2014-12-18T14:42:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T00:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=30407"},"modified":"2021-10-15T16:15:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T02:15:57","slug":"xlr8uh-apply-now-for-startup-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/18\/xlr8uh-apply-now-for-startup-success\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr title=\"accelerate U H\">XLR8UH<\/abbr>: Apply now for startup success"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/xlr8uh-apply.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"251\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/xlr8uh-apply.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/xlr8uh-apply-260x105.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Are you sitting on the next multi-million dollar idea? Are you a <abbr>UH<\/abbr> faculty member, student or alumni? Then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xlr8uh.com\/\"><abbr>XLR8UH<\/abbr><\/a> is here to help make your startup dreams a reality.<\/p>\n<p>From social initiatives to billion dollar markets, our program will push you and your idea to the next level.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>XLR8UH<\/abbr> provides <abbr>UH<\/abbr> faculty, staff, students, and alumni with a multi-phase education and investment program focused on commercializing Â鶹´«Ã½innovations.<\/p>\n<p>We provide two funding tracks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Phase <abbr title=\"one\">I<\/abbr> startups are focused on developing their proof of concept&#8212;i.e. taking concept and\/or <abbr>IP<\/abbr>, identifying the greatest market potential and converting that R&#038;D into a minimum viable product.<\/li>\n<li>Phase <abbr title=\"two\">II<\/abbr> startups are more focused on commercialization&#8212;i.e. startups completing their proof of concept and refining their innovation having established the ever-important &ldquo;product-market fit.&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Application deadline is coming up soon! Early decision deadline is January 20, with a final deadline of January 30 for applications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xlr8uh.com\/registration.html\">Apply now<\/a> or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xlr8uh.com\/\">www.xlr8uh.com<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n<h2><abbr>UH<\/abbr> News video: &ldquo;<abbr>XLR8UH<\/abbr>: Turning research into viable products and businesses&rdquo;<\/h2>\n<div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Kn1oxnmf7AU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XLR8Â鶹´«Ã½accepting applicants for its spring 2015 cohort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[498,734,332,947,56,594],"class_list":["post-30407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship","tag-hawaii-innovation-initiative","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","tag-xlr8uh","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30407"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106832,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30407\/revisions\/106832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}