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Business Incubator Series: Dave Knox, The Brandery, Cincinnati, Ohio (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Dave: When we select our companies, we’re trying to get a feel for who the entrepreneurs themselves are. Are they ones who would benefit from a mentorship-driven network, in terms of being coachable and being open to change? The final thing is just looking at the team’s
Business Incubator Series: Dave Knox, The Brandery, Cincinnati, Ohio (Part 2)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are the core benefits that your accelerator provides? Dave: The Brandery is about accelerating the path of a startup. We’re lucky to have a great network of mentors, ranging from startup founders to venture capitalists to consumer marketing professionals. Through that mentorship we provide a
Business Incubator Series: Dave Knox, The Brandery, Cincinnati, Ohio (Part 1)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold I am talking to Dave Knox, one of the co-founders of the Brandery, which is a mentorship-driven 12-week business accelerator based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Founded in 2010, they are part of TechStars Network, have similar format, and offer early stage entrepreneurs $20,000 in financing. They particularly focus
Business Incubator Series: Troy Henikoff, Excelerate Labs – Chicago, Illinois (Part 3)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Troy: SurePayroll eliminated the cost of all those pieces: the paper checks and reports, the delivery guy, the car he drove in, and the building drove from and the operator. It really reduced the cost and make it much simpler and easier for small businesses to process
Business Incubator Series: Interview With Julia Rosen, Associate Vice-President For Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Arizona State University, Venture Catalyst At ASU — Scottsdale, Arizona (Part 5)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Are there any tools that help you to accomplish your mission? Julia: We are, at present, the only U.S. university that is part of the TechStars Network. Being able to access and have a forum in which to talk to other accelerators from around the country
Business Incubator Series: An Interview With David Cohen, Founder And CEO, Startup Accelerator TechStars – Boulder, Colorado (Part 8)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What about those entrepreneurs who are completely not ready for your accelerator? David: Yes. My guess is that’s somewhere around two thirds. A third of them might get into a program like this somewhere around the world at some point, or they might go on to
Business Incubator Series: An Interview With David Cohen, Founder And CEO, Startup Accelerator TechStars – Boulder, Colorado (Part 7)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you have any special initiatives at the moment? David: We just launched the TechStars network, which is based on massive inbound demand for programs around the world that wanted to use this deep mentorship and community model. We essentially just open-sourced TechStars, and we call
Business Incubator Series: An Interview With David Cohen, Founder And CEO, Startup Accelerator TechStars – Boulder, Colorado (Part 6)
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold David: TechStars has a long-term view – a 20-year view. It’s not just about what these [entrepreneurs] do in their first companies. It’s about what the founders do after that. Rob Johnson [of EventVue] is now in a high-level position at Gnip, a company in Boulder that’s doing
