Business Incubator Series: Jerry Creighton, Enterprise Development Center, New Jersey Institute of Technology – Newark (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many companies have been incubated since 1988? Jerry: I wouldn’t know. I presently have 95 companies in my center. We are the largest technology center in the country, to the best of my knowledge.

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Business Incubator Series: Tim Lavengood, Technology Innovation Center – Evanston, Illinois (Part 7)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: What are your metrics for success? What do you measure? Tim: One of the things we measure is graduation. We try to track our companies, we can’t do it. It is very hard and very expensive. But we have had Northwestern faculty track companies in the

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs In The Northeastern U.S. On Thursday, April 21

Entrepreneurs from the northeastern U.S. with questions pertaining to their start-up ventures are encouraged to pitch their businesses at or attend the next FREE online strategy roundtable on Thursday, April 21, 2011, starting at: 11 a.m. EDT/8 a.m. PDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details and register here. All are welcome!

April 9 Roundtable Poll Winner

Girish Mathrubootham’s Freshdesk was chosen the best business of those presented at the live roundtable in Chennai on April 9, 2011, through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can read Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap here.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: [Usage-based licensing] is also democratizing the availability of technology to a much a broader range of both companies and consumers, right? People can access technology much more affordably and easily today than even just five years ago. Mark Egan: Absolutely! And I think the challenge for us as IT professionals is, How do

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Making Millions Out Of Artificial Intelligence: Brighterion CEO Akli Adjaoute (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Dr. Adjaoute is a leading figure in the international cognitive science community and the CEO of Brighterion, which offers a full suite of products for real-time fraud prevention, compliance, and homeland security intelligence. Prior to Brighterion he was the founder, president, and CEO of Cognitix Technologies.

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Business Incubator Series: Jerry Creighton, Enterprise Development Center, New Jersey Institute of Technology – Newark (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Jerry Creighton, executive director of the Enterprise Development Center at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).  Based in Newark, New Jersey, the center is home to nearly 86 high-tech and life sciences companies. The center’s entrepreneurs have access to the institute’s facilities and

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Business Incubator Series: Tim Lavengood, Technology Innovation Center – Evanston, Illinois (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: Would you give us an example of service providers that come to your incubator? Tim: We have people who made a living for a couple of years doing programming for various of our companies. You come in, you are doing C++ or something like that, you

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