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Business Incubator Series: Micah Kotch, NYC ACRE At NYU-Poly, New York (Part 2)
By guest author Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: At what stage do you usually prefer that businesses apply for incubation? Micah: We like to see them before they’ve closed their Series A round of funding, so anywhere between friends and family [funding] and revenue. Companies can come in with some revenue. But if they’ve closed
Business Incubator Series: Micah Kotch, NYC ACRE At NYU-Poly, New York (Part 1)
By guest author Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Micah Kotch, who serves as director of operations for NYC ACRE at NYU-Poly (the New York City Accelerator for a Clean and Renewable Economy). NYC ACRE is seeded by a four-year, $1.5 million grant from the NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development
Business Incubator Series: Fred Hoch And Terry Howerton, TechNexus, Chicago, Illinois (Part 7)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Terry: How do we reproduce that collaborative environment online in a way that the companies that come through here – almost 1,000 companies came through in the past three months – how do they collaborate without having to come through the facility every day? How do we
Business Incubator Series: Fred Hoch And Terry Howerton, TechNexus, Chicago, Illinois (Part 6)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Terry: If a company is adding value to this ecosystem, we don’t have to charge them cash to be in this space. It’s not formulaic by any stretch of the imagination. It’s a lot more difficult to manage an incubator like this, but it’s a lot more
Business Incubator Series: Fred Hoch And Terry Howerton, TechNexus, Chicago, Illinois (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Terry: One of the companies that launched here last week is called Photogram. It is similar to Instagram in the mobile app space, which was very popular. Photogram [which targets new parents] also has been performing just about as well, in terms of getting customers, as Instagram
Business Incubator Series: Fred Hoch And Terry Howerton, TechNexus, Chicago, Illinois (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Terry: ITA, the Clean Energy Trust and almost 75 other organizations meet at Tech Nexus every month –roundtables for entrepreneurs, legal discussions and also a huge number of user groups, special interest groups, things like the Amazon Web services group, the Lean Startup group or the Adobe
Business Incubator Series: Fred Hoch And Terry Howerton, TechNexus, Chicago, Illinois (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Can you think of anything else that makes your incubator unique? Terry: One is the community collaboration aspect. The other one is the fact that we are not focused just on a certain type or certain size of company or certain type of entrepreneur. It’s important
Business Incubator Series: Fred Hoch And Terry Howerton, TechNexus, Chicago, Illinois (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Is there an ideal company that would benefit from your incubation? Fred: It’s an ideal mindset. It’s a company that’s open to the idea, it’s collaboration, it’s community. There are benefits of working with not only the people who are here in the space itself, which
