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Business Incubator Series: John McIntyre, Citrix Startup Accelerator (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, May 26th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any particular industry preference? John: We’re very software focused. We have seen an applicant who has a hardware piece of the solution to help accelerate it, but for the most part, we’re just going to be focused on software. Citrix is very much

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Business Incubator Series: John McIntyre, Citrix Startup Accelerator (Part 2)

Posted on Wednesday, May 25th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How much funding support does Enterprise Ireland usually provide to those entrepreneurs who are qualified? John: It’s in the low hundreds of thousands. If you go to the Enterprise Ireland site, it specifies that it changes with time. Obviously, over the past few years, Ireland’s gone

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Business Incubator Series: John McIntyre, Citrix Startup Accelerator (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, May 24th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to John McIntyre, senior director at Citrix Startup Accelerator, which is an outgrowth of Citrix Labs, an internal research and innovation organization at Citrix with offices in Sydney (Australia) and Redmond (Washington), as well as a presence in Cambridge (UK), Santa Clara (California) and

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1M/1M: How We Differ From YCombinator

Posted on Monday, Jan 31st

We are getting this question often: How does 1M/1M differ from YCombinator and other accelerators and incubators? Here is the answer:

What Do I Need From An Incubator?

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 7th

By guest author Nari Kannan As an entrepreneur, what do I need from an incubator? Of late, there has been a lot of discussion in this forum about incubators, what measures they use for their own success, their business models, and so forth. In this post I discuss five things that I, as an entrepreneur, need

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Entrepreneurship Education: Incubator Business Models

Posted on Thursday, Mar 18th

You have read my last Forbes Column, An Underused Tool For Job Recovery. With unemployment soaring, I discussed how incubators can help people move into self-employment–and create jobs. We’ve also discussed the topic of why incubators fail at length here. One of the issues that came up in the incubator discussion as a cause for

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Entrepreneurship Education: Why Do Business Incubators Fail?

Posted on Tuesday, Mar 2nd

While my previous post on entrepreneurship education, Bootstrapping at B-Schools is still generating hot discussion, I would like to pose another important discussion topic: Why do business incubators fail? Those among my readers who have perspective and analysis to offer on the subject, please feel free to jump right in. [Please note that since this

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Forbes Column 08: India – Cash Rich, Product Poor

Posted on Friday, Mar 7th

My new Forbes column discusses India’s venture capital situation, on which, you have heard me speak repeatedly before: India: Cash Rich, Product Poor.