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- The Accelerator Conundrum
- The Startup Velocity Question
- Platform as a Service
- Man and Superman
- Web 3.0 = (4C + P + VS)
- The Future: End of Capitalism
- Capitalism 2.0
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Business Incubator Series: Bruce Wright And Molly Gilbert, Arizona Center for Innovation – Tucson (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Bruce: Medipacs [one of the incubator’s success stories] is a very low cost, highly reliable infusion pump. The inventor is a man named Mark Banister. Medipacs pumps could be produced at a fraction of the cost of the current pumps available on the market. The pumps could
Business Incubator Series: Bruce Wright And Molly Gilbert, Arizona Center for Innovation – Tucson (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is the application process to your incubator? Molly: They have an application that they need to fill out. We sit down and we meet with them, probably a couple of times, and try and sort out what their technologies are, what they’re trying to build
Business Incubator Series: Bruce Wright And Molly Gilbert, Arizona Center for Innovation – Tucson (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Does your incubator service the entire local community? Bruce: Yes. We focus primarily on University of Arizona faculty and students, but about half of our companies come from the community. We’re open to any technology startup. Irina: Would you describe the ideal company that would benefit
Business Incubator Series: Bruce Wright And Molly Gilbert, Arizona Center for Innovation – Tucson (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Bruce Wright and Molly Gilbert, both of whom are with the University of Arizona Office of University Research Parks (OURP). Bruce Wright is associate vice president of OURP. He directs the office and serves as the CEO of the University of Arizona (U
Business Incubator Series: Troy Henikoff, Excelerate Labs – Chicago, Illinois (Part 10)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are your daily personal challenges? What do you think could help you to be more effective? Troy: You mean other than having 48 hours in the day? Irina: Yes, other than time limitations. Troy: My role is overseeing the operations of Excelerate. More important, it’s
Business Incubator Series: Troy Henikoff, Excelerate Labs – Chicago, Illinois (Part 9)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Troy: We have a rigorous curriculum. We make a huge degree of use of the mentors. We do have some other services around, for example, as I mentioned, pro bono legal for their business conversion [to the right corporate structure].
Business Incubator Series: Troy Henikoff, Excelerate Labs – Chicago, Illinois (Part 8)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What advice do you usually give to those who are not accepted in your program? Troy: We e-mailed everybody who applied, thanking them for applying and encouraging them in the best way we can in terms of acknowledging that we may have made a mistake. There
Business Incubator Series: Troy Henikoff, Excelerate Labs – Chicago, Illinois (Part 7)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Did TechStars implement their universal application idea that David Cohen discussed with me when I interviewed him? Troy: TechStars is working with the Kauffman Foundation on implementing it. They are working on it. Irina: How do you process your applications? Troy: We get hundreds of applications
