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Funding for a Business
An Interview With Debera Johnson, Founder And Executive Director, Pratt Design Incubator For Sustainable Innovation (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many companies were funded by angels during their incubation period? Debera: At this point, Sam Cochran, [the CEO of SMIT, which runs] the Solar Ivy company got about $250,000 in angel funding. The other companies are less needy, less technology based. They’re not actually looking
An Interview With Debera Johnson, Founder And Executive Director, Pratt Design Incubator For Sustainable Innovation (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many companies have you incubated since inception? Debera: Up until now, we’ve been involved with 20. We just brought in four new companies. The fourth will be coming in March. Of those, 16 are still in business.
An Interview With Debera Johnson, Founder And Executive Director, Pratt Design Incubator For Sustainable Innovation (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Can students apply to your incubator? Debera: They cannot be students. They have to have graduated. I don’t want to interfere with their education. So, we take people either when they’ve just graduated, who we feel have the ability and are energized and smart and have
An Interview With Debera Johnson, Founder And Executive Director, Pratt Design Incubator For Sustainable Innovation (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Today I am talking to Debera Johnson, founder and executive director of the Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation. The incubator is a part of the Center for Sustainable Design Studies at Pratt Institute, which is an art, design, and architecture college in New York City. Since
An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you do day to day? Danny: There’s no consistency at all. Right now we’re putting together the strategy of how we’re going to execute over the next year. So, there’s lots of consulting with the community and organizations and the board and everybody I
An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Danny: We’ve got some role models, and we’re using them as poster children. For example, Stewart Butterfield created Flickr in Vancouver. Stewart is a great example of somebody who has built a company, sold it to the States, and ended up coming back to Vancouver and starting
An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: You fund programs and events but you don’t directly invest in companies, right? Danny: Yes. Unfortunately, we’re not allowed to do that.
An Interview With Danny Robinson, CEO, British Columbia Innovation Council (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Danny: I thought that BCIC would be a better place for me to cover all the sectors, make sure the entire [entrepreneurial] ecosystem’s intact, reach all the other industries and regions. I represent all of British Columbia, not just Vancouver. There are about nine regional areas where
