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Business Incubator Series: Art Boni, Donald H. Jones Center For Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Part 5)

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 6th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: How is your program funded? Art: There are a variety of financial sources that support us: We have endowments, we have sponsorships, we have gifts, we get funding from the government, and we get funding from foundations. All of that comes in to support what we

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Business Incubator Series: Art Boni, Donald H. Jones Center For Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Part 4)

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 5th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: What sources do you use for angel financing? Art: We have a few fairly robust angel networks here. We have a couple of organized groups that are in effect almost the equivalent of an early-stage seed fund. One of them is called Smithfield Trust Company and

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Business Incubator Series: Art Boni, Donald H. Jones Center For Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Part 3)

Posted on Monday, Apr 4th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: When did you launch the accelerator? Art: We launched last summer for the first time, and we are planning to run it again this summer. We will take probably three or four companies for a period of three months. Last summer we had six companies apply

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Business Incubator Series: Art Boni, Donald H. Jones Center For Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Part 2)

Posted on Sunday, Apr 3rd

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Art: Our business accelerator is wrapped in the academic program. The people who participate in it are either spending three months in the program between the first and the second years of their MBA program, or they do it after they graduate with an MBA when they

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Business Incubator Series: Art Boni, Donald H. Jones Center For Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Part 1)

Posted on Saturday, Apr 2nd

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi I am talking to Art Boni, director of the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship and professor of entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon was one of the pioneers in introducing entrepreneurship courses nearly 40 years ago, in 1972. According

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