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Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Stephen: As far as technology, we have a database that works internally. For our needs, it’s great. It’s basically a CRM [customer relationship management] system that we developed internally. All our employees get full access to it. The mentors get limited access. The entrepreneurs get even more
Business Incubator Series: Stephen Fleming, Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Tech – Atlanta (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Where do your applicants usually come from? Stephen: We do get pretty good coverage of the entrepreneurial opportunities coming out of Georgia Tech. That’s both the spin-out companies, which are based on intellectual property owned by Georgia Tech, and the startups being started by students, those
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: Art Boni, Donald H. Jones Center For Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: How is your program funded? Art: There are a variety of financial sources that support us: We have endowments, we have sponsorships, we have gifts, we get funding from the government, and we get funding from foundations. All of that comes in to support what we
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: Art Boni, Donald H. Jones Center For Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: What sources do you use for angel financing? Art: We have a few fairly robust angel networks here. We have a couple of organized groups that are in effect almost the equivalent of an early-stage seed fund. One of them is called Smithfield Trust Company and
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: AngelList Founder Naval Ravikant (Part 9)
Sramana Mitra: These are interesting analogies, using the different schools. You know, even at these schools, the rejection numbers are very high. Naval Ravikant: They have to be. SM: Of 500 deals, maybe five or 10 get accepted. NR: Yes, I heard Y Combinator had 3,000 applications. SM: If you look at the Google search
Business Incubator Series: Art Boni, Donald H. Jones Center For Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Irina: When did you launch the accelerator? Art: We launched last summer for the first time, and we are planning to run it again this summer. We will take probably three or four companies for a period of three months. Last summer we had six companies apply
