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Funding for a Business
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.
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
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
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
Business Incubator Series: Tim Lavengood, Technology Innovation Center – Evanston, Illinois (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: What other kind of projects students usually do? Tim: We had a company that did consumer electronics. They had a little bug zapper that they were designing, and we had a student group that came in and helped with that. As matter of fact, they produced
Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 8)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What about those entrepreneurs who don’t need or want to raise money? Stephen: Right, the bootstrappers. We have an active community of bootstrapping companies now, that for whatever reason, don’t need to or choose not to raise money – or choose not to raise money right
Business Incubator Series: Tim Lavengood, Technology Innovation Center – Evanston, Illinois (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: How do you usually process entrepreneurs’ applications or inquiries? Tim: I don’t have a hard and fast rule for that because, again, I don’t want people to articulate aspects of their business that they are not yet qualified to do. I just don’t want them to
Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 7)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Stephen: Now, phase 2 [of the Georgia Research Alliance Commercialization Program] – and we go up to Phase 4 – phase 2 is an up to $100,000 grant, again, to the university or universities. Sometimes these are joint ventures between, for example, Georgia Tech and Emory. It
