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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
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
Business Incubator Series: Jean Boudeguer, Start-Up Chile – Santiago (Part 5)
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
Seed Capital From Angel Investors: AngelList Founder Naval Ravikant (Part 8)
Naval Ravikant: The combination of inexperienced investors with first-time entrepreneurs is not good. I am going to show you something else just to get my point across very clearly. Let me show you how many investors have applied to get in who haven’t even been processed. So, you see this page [on your computer], right?
