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Business Incubator Series: John McIntyre, Citrix Startup Accelerator (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Would you please go over the core benefits of your program one more time? John: We give access to our deep channel of partners and customers. We have more than 250,000 customers that range from enterprises all the way down to small, medium sized businesses; access
Business Incubator Series: John McIntyre, Citrix Startup Accelerator (Part 4)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many companies do you plan to fund and accelerate this year? John: It depends on how much we invest per company. We’re looking at something in the 12 to 15 range initially. We’re funded over the next several years.
Business Incubator Series: John McIntyre, Citrix Startup Accelerator (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any particular industry preference? John: We’re very software focused. We have seen an applicant who has a hardware piece of the solution to help accelerate it, but for the most part, we’re just going to be focused on software. Citrix is very much
Business Incubator Series: John McIntyre, Citrix Startup Accelerator (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How much funding support does Enterprise Ireland usually provide to those entrepreneurs who are qualified? John: It’s in the low hundreds of thousands. If you go to the Enterprise Ireland site, it specifies that it changes with time. Obviously, over the past few years, Ireland’s gone
Business Incubator Series: John McIntyre, Citrix Startup Accelerator (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to John McIntyre, senior director at Citrix Startup Accelerator, which is an outgrowth of Citrix Labs, an internal research and innovation organization at Citrix with offices in Sydney (Australia) and Redmond (Washington), as well as a presence in Cambridge (UK), Santa Clara (California) and
Entrepreneurship Education: Are You Ready For Funding?
One thing we’re hearing continually from angel investors – mind you, angel investors, not VCs – is that entrepreneurs approach them too early and without adequate preparation. Folks, you cannot (and should not) do this. Once you get rejected by one investor, you will not be able to go back to that same investor anytime
Entrepreneurship Education: Who Is the Right Seed Investor For You?
I am sure many of you are reading 1M/1M Ambassador Irina Patterson’s Seed Capital series where she’s interviewing seed investors from various walks of life, and with a diverse set of perspectives. Whereas Mike Maples is interested in the top 15 deals in Silicon Valley each year, Basil Peters likes to invest in businesses that
Stanford’s Seed Fund
While we’ve been on the topic of seed funding, Techcrunch is reporting the launch of a new seed fund at Stanford.
