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

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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

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