Should this turn out to not be the truth, even the slightest unintentional misappropriation of funds for a pizza could end up costing your company a great deal.
Maybe I've been around the gringos too long.....
My apologies. I had understood that you were drawing a salary from Bootup Labs based on a conversation I had with Boris a few months ago, but I can't remember exactly what he said, and it's quite possible that I misinterpreted him.
Even if you're not personally getting paid anything, I think $50k is a rather generous fee given that other startup accelerators don't seem to need any such fee at all.
At this rate, what do you care if the startup succeeds or fails? You get $50k no matter what.
I can't fathom how you think this is a good deal for anyone but you. This kind of behavior is why vancouver will be better without you.
The way it works is that you get 50% of your R&D expenses back from the gov't, in cash, several months later. To claim it, you have to write reports explaining the R&D value of each project. Besides the obvious bureaucratic overhead, it ends up affecting the organizational structure of the company. It distorts the way the business is run, maybe by only 20%, but that's enough to make you lose in the market in the long run.
I used to work at a startup that makes no money at all. They asked me to sign some sort of "fake" stock options as part of the SR&ED requirements. Of course the numbers were meaningless (pennies or whatnot). So I'm very interested on how this works.
Good luck.
$50K for 8 months is a lot of rent and accounting services.
If the Management Fee pays for the managers' salaries, like Danny and Boris Wertz, then they are not necessarily incentivized to have quality startups in each cohort... more important to Bootup in that circumstance is having enough startups to cover their overhead in each 8 month cycle.
