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Business Incubator Series: Art Boni, Donald H. Jones Center For Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Part 3)

Posted on Monday, Apr 4th

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

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Business Incubator Series: Jean Boudeguer, Start-Up Chile – Santiago (Part 5)

Posted on Monday, Apr 4th

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Are there any other interesting entrepreneurs in your program? Jean: There’s H2020 created by Erika Anderson, who is an alumna of Singularity University in Moffett Field, California. [They collect data using their unique mobile phone-based survey. H2020’s Water Poverty Initiative seeks to “improve public knowledge about

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Business Incubator Series: Art Boni, Donald H. Jones Center For Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Part 2)

Posted on Sunday, Apr 3rd

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi Art: Our business accelerator is wrapped in the academic program. The people who participate in it are either spending three months in the program between the first and the second years of their MBA program, or they do it after they graduate with an MBA when they

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Business Incubator Series: Jean Boudeguer, Start-Up Chile — Santiago (Part 4)

Posted on Sunday, Apr 3rd

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What entrepreneurs could expect to spend on living expenses while they stay in Chile? Jean: That would depend on how you want to live. There’s an entrepreneur who lives in a normal apartment. He has a swimming pool on the top floor of the building. He’s

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Business Incubator Series: Art Boni, Donald H. Jones Center For Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon University — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Part 1)

Posted on Saturday, Apr 2nd

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Praveen Karoshi I am talking to Art Boni, director of the Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship and professor of entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon was one of the pioneers in introducing entrepreneurship courses nearly 40 years ago, in 1972. According

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Business Incubator Series: Jean Boudeguer, Start-Up Chile – Santiago (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Apr 2nd

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any entrepreneurs from the U.S.? Jean: We have people from Wisconsin, California, and Utah. We’re trying to attract the best entrepreneurs from around the world. We’re not only looking for high-tech entrepreneurs, we’re looking for any entrepreneur who can see an opportunity here

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Business Incubator Series: Jean Boudeguer, Start-Up Chile — Santiago (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Apr 1st

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jean: We want the founders to start their businesses here, and then go global. There are some companies that want to send in a project manager. Other teams wanted to open branches in Chile. There’s another agency here in Chile that supports that.

Business Incubator Series: Jean Boudeguer, Start-Up Chile — Santiago (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Mar 31st

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Jean Boudeguer, executive director of Start-Up Chile, which is a Chilean government program that seeks to attract foreign, high-potential entrepreneurs to come to Chile to bootstrap their businesses.  The mission of the new government and the primary focus of the Ministry of Economy

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