November 20 – Sramana Mitra Speaking At Dreamforce

Sramana Mitra is a featured speaker at Dreamforce in the session “Stacking the Odds: Incubators and Accelerators,” on Wednesday, November 20, 2013, at 12:30 p.m., in the Union Square room at the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco. You can learn more and register here.

Getting to Know LA Incubator Be Great Partners

September 17, 2013, marked the first annual Be Great Fest, a red carpet event celebrating the Los Angeles startup community. Los Angeles incubator and accelerator Be Great Partners announced their launch of nine new co-working spaces set to be located throughout the greater Los Angeles area. Before the event, Irina Patterson, who heads up seed financing

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An Underused Tool For Job Recovery

As the U.S. economy continues to hiccup, large-scale entrepreneurship is a badly needed remedy. In transitioning hundreds of thousands of people to self-employment and job creation through entrepreneurship, incubators look like an extremely helpful tool. But we need to produce more of the most effective incubators.

1M/1M: Corporate Sponsors, Affiliates, Incubators – Business Models for Partnerships

Folks, We’re looking to connect with potential corporate sponsors for 1M/1M. We’re currently working with Microsoft on a Bizspark startup grant program, and would love to connect with other corporate partners interested in reaching this highly segmented audience through a brand with immense goodwill.

What Do I Need From An Incubator?

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: Idea Validation

Every Thursday morning, I coach five entrepreneurs with many more listening to the sessions. And like a parrot, I keep asking these entrepreneurs to validate their ideas. I give them a framework with which to do so. I give it to them ahead of time hoping they would use it and come prepared. And yet

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Forbes Column 2010: An Underused Tool For Job Recovery

With unemployment soaring, incubators can help people move into self-employment–and create jobs. See how in this week’s Forbes column, An Underused Tool For Job Recovery.

Indian Incubator Fund: Specs (Part 2)

We dicussed the “Problem” in the last part. In this one, let’s discuss the “Entrepreneur”. Again, I’ll tell you a story from my own experience. My advisor at MIT, Prof. Anant Agarwal, was (is) also an entrepreneur. So, when I walked into his office one day in 1994, and declared that I wanted to finish

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