Business Incubator Series: Jerry Creighton, Enterprise Development Center, New Jersey Institute of Technology – Newark (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many inquiries do you receive a month? Jerry: I get two or three a week. Irina: Out of those, how many do you usually accept? Jerry: That’s a very good question. It’s a cyclical thing. Typically, 50% of them are people who will say, “I

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Business Incubator Series: Tim Lavengood, Technology Innovation Center – Evanston, Illinois (Part 9)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: How many of your entrepreneurs work on software businesses? And what kind of software? Tim: It would be probably about 50% of our companies, either half or just under half. A lot of people want to hook on to enterprise software programs. Many are interested in

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What kinds of organizational changes are taking place as a consequence of all these different things happening? You said your infrastructure IT organization employs the equivalent of 8.5 people. Is that the total IT organization, or has the IT organization as such decreased in size? How have you reorganized or the organization reshuffled

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Making Millions Out Of Artificial Intelligence: Brighterion CEO Akli Adjaoute (Part 3)

Sramana: How was the newly designed system received by the doctors? Akli Adjaoute: It made a lot of news in France. For the first time there was a system that could react to data.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Egan, CIO Of VMware (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Well, there was one [analytics company] that I liked a lot but they seem to have gone out of business; it was a company called Lucidera. Did you see that? Mark Egan: I am not familiar with them.

Business Incubator Series: Jerry Creighton, Enterprise Development Center, New Jersey Institute of Technology – Newark (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jerry: When we hire students at the incubator, the university pays the students weekly, and then I bill the company and they reimburse the university for the students’ services. Irina: How are the faculty compensated? Jerry: It’s up to them. It could be free. It could be

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Business Incubator Series: Tim Lavengood, Technology Innovation Center – Evanston, Illinois (Part 8)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Tim: We had other ways of doing our Japanese program. We could have gone there. There are other ways of doing that, but that is the way they wanted to do it. They really wanted to see the environment here, which was great, but it wound up

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Making Millions Out Of Artificial Intelligence: Brighterion CEO Akli Adjaoute (Part 2)

Sramana: There is no way to improve the capability of an expert system unless there is a learning capability. Is that the aspect that frustrated you? Akli Adjaoute: Yes. When the residents would test our system, I was frustrated because every time they would find a case that the system did not already have a

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