Business Incubator Series: Tim Lavengood, Technology Innovation Center – Evanston, Illinois (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: So, is it OK to come to your incubator just with an idea? Tim: If it’s an idea and a dedication that this is going to be the dedication of a life for a while, then, yes. As I said, these people are going full time.

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Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Stephen: One of the larger donors to Georgia Tech Edison Fund is the Charles Edison Fund. That is the fund that was set up by the son of Thomas Edison. They allow us to use the Thomas Edison name.

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2011: VirtuOz, Emeryville, California, And Paris, France

The February 2011 victory of IBM’s Watson, a “question-answer computer,” over two human competitors in the popular trivia game show “Jeopardy” was a milestone in artificial intelligence that caught the attention of scientists and the general public alike. Today’s Deal Radar company, VirtuOz, points to Watson’s humanlike reasoning capabilities as a testament to the viability of

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Bootstrapping A Software Company From Minnesota: Vicki Raport Of Quantum Retail (Part 4)

Sramana: When you built your prototype, did you target a specific enterprise management system to interface with? Vicki Raport: No, we just started with Guitar Center. We focused on what they had. We knew the industry very well, specifically Retek and Oracle. That made future integration easy.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Klaus-Michael Vogelberg, CTO Of Sage Group Plc, Newcastle (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Yes, I understand that the business partners play a part there. I guess my question was going deeper into that scenario and asking if Google App engine is playing a role in that integration scenario. Klaus-Michael Vogelberg: Yes. There are not many alternatives out there at the moment, are there? SM: That is

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Business Incubator Series: Tim Lavengood, Technology Innovation Center – Evanston, Illinois (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Tim: So, the fourth thing we have is this peer group where companies get to learn from each other and from us. Over the 26 years we have been around, we have had more than 350 clients. We have just in Evanston, which is a small suburb

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Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: On average, how long does a company stay in your incubator? Stephen: It’s all over the map. The life science companies take longer. We actually don’t have a time horizon in mind for our life science companies. They’re so dependent on the underlying science and the

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Bootstrapping A Software Company From Minnesota: Vicki Raport Of Quantum Retail (Part 3)

Sramana: Is it correct to say that your goal was to conduct retail analytics using smaller sets of data points? Vicki Raport: Quantum came from the idea that we are dealing with a world of small systems, using granular levels of information. That is different from looking at things from the top down.