Andersen Consulting has aanounced the creation of a global network of 17 dotcom launch centres to provide initially-funded funded e-commerce sart-ups and spin-offs with the tools and resources necessary to scale rapidly and become viable businesses, said an Andersen statement.
The Andersen Consulting DotCom Launch Centres will provide start-ups with the managemnt, marketing, finance, administration and technology expertise needed to become enduring, revenue generating businesses.
The dotcom launch centres are located in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dublin, Frankfurt, Helsinki, Johannesburg, London, Madrid, Milan, Palo Alto, Paris, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney and Tokyo.
Andersen Consulting will invest up to $1.2 billion in consulting services and assets.
unlike an incubator which typically works with business in their first 60 to 120 days the Andersen Consulting dotcom launch centres work e-businesses that already have in place a nucleas of management and financial support, the statement said.
Each centre will provide access to Internet-based professionals ready to serve as key strategic, technology, and marketing resources or as pat of an off-the-shelf management team. Andersen Consulting's full range of assets including proprietary e-commerce tools and architecture (electronic interfaces, shopping bots, search engines, etc) will be provided. It will also give access to AC's relationships with the world's leading businesses.
Besides, the center will have recognised credibility through linkages with AC's global brand and leading edge e-commerce software through AC alliances.
There will be real-time solutions to the challenges that commonly impede and delay startups, through the firm's deep market and industry knowledge, global reach and unmatched distribution channels.
