Whether a great idea makes it into a viable startup depends a lot of the team that can be formed. Starting entrepreneurs are always on the look out for starting team members or an experienced advisory board. For both it is important that one has a great network. It is not what you know but who you know. In addition, lot of startup entrepreneurs want some kind of seed funding to start the adventure. Seedcamp may provide you with both that network and capital.

Seedcamp is a week long incubator program with much prestige. CEO of Seedcamp is Reshma Sohoni and she has an advisory board with many female internet heroes: Sherry Coutu, an early stage investor, Sara Murray, founder of Buddi.co.uk, Bindi Karia of who runs the UK Startup Accelerator Programme of Microsoft and Lori Vokes, Operation Director of Cisco.

If you are startup, you have the change to be one of the 20 startup to participate in the program. That is, if you make it through the application procedure.

At the end of the week, September 15-18 2008, Seedcamp will invest 50K Pounds for a 10% stake in each of final five teams and provide ongoing mentorship and support for three months in preparation for the companies’ formal rounds of financing.

if you think you are not ready yet to go all the way to seedcamp, then try it first at one of the Seedcamp event brite taster events. Here you can may find the right team mates that get you going!