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New York Incubator
Business Incubator Series: Micah Kotch, NYC ACRE At NYU-Poly, New York (Part 4)
By guest author Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What help do you offer in terms of financing? Micah: Before a company is going to go out and raise capital, we want to make sure that the founders have a good sense of their market and, if possible, show revenue. If a business is revenue
Business Incubator Series: Micah Kotch, NYC ACRE At NYU-Poly, New York (Part 3)
By guest author Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Micah: For the most part, the entrepreneurs who are on our waiting list are looking for physical space. We refer them out to other spaces. We’ll refer to Deb Johnson (Pratt Design Incubator for Sustainable Innovation), or there’s something here called the Coalition of Office Space Providers.
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: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many companies have been incubated in the past 12 months? Stephen: Right now, it’s about 400. When we are talking about 400, you have to understand that in the new [approach] model, the companies don’t have to be resident in my bricks-and-mortar [incubator]. I’ve got
Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Stephen Fleming, who is a vice president at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where he is currently overseeing the Enterprise Innovation Institute. The institute is focused on helping enterprises improve their competitiveness through the application of science, technology, and innovation. During fiscal
Business Incubator Series: Interview With Kerry Rupp, Managing Partner, DreamIt Ventures – Philadelphia And New York City (Part 8)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Kerry: The public funding that DreamIt receives is not contingent on how many of our entrepreneurs are successful. I think that is probably because our investors agree with us that this model of succeed fast or fail fast is valuable. They understand that some of the companies
Business Incubator Series: Interview With Kerry Rupp, Managing Partner, DreamIt Ventures – Philadelphia And New York City (Part 7)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: Do you have any special initiatives at this time? Kerry: I would say our expansion in New York City, which should be our first time operating in the city, this summer. We brought on a locally-based managing director, Mark Wachen, an entrepreneur who was the founder
