Sentences with phrase «of business incubators»

Nemazi is also particularly passionate about supporting entrepreneurs, and is actively involved with the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition, Michigan Venture Capitalists Association, and a number of business incubators in Metro Detroit.

Thanks to a burgeoning scene of business incubators in countries around the world — as well as a growing awareness that consumers outside the U.S. make up a potentially huge market — international startups are increasingly attracting millions of investor dollars from the Bay Area and beyond.

Over the years, Gotham has pushed through initiatives that ranged from lifestyle perks like free Wi - Fi in public parks and subway stations to make the city more attractive to a tech workforce, to establishing a network of business incubators to help provide affordable office space to more than 500 startups.

Through our combination of business incubator, tech accelerator and coworking programs, we have created a community where early - stage businesses find the necessary elements to launch, grow and succeed.

the solution lies in the scaling systems of Blockchain technology, and China's largest retailer JD.com at the end of February announced the launch of a business incubator for start - UPS to attract foreign projects Blockchain.

Last year, the Coalition for Queens worked with New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's New York City Regional Economic Development Council to incorporate Queens tech companies and the area's start - up community into the state's long - term planning, and the group is urging Cuomo to make the borough the site of a business incubator and an Innovation Hot Spot.

Ms. Rose said having seen the success of a business incubator in her district, she was glad to see further plans to lure creative entrepreneurship to the borough through tech incubators.

Not exact matches

A pink neon glow emanates through the windows of The Pink Ceiling, an incubator for women - led and women - focused businesses.

A lot of these contests are also run by business incubators and angel funds.

Launched in 2009 by three Yale alums — Mahbod Moghadam, Tom Lehman, and Ilan Zechory — and refined during a stint with the well - known startup incubator Y Combinator, the company was completing the details of a massive $ 40 million funding round by one of the top investors in tech, a piece of news they had agreed to announce as part of a profile on Business Insider.

In our May issue, we chronicled the unlikely rise of Youngstown, Ohio, a city long - since abandoned by the steel industry now trying to reinvent itself as a hub for technology entrepreneurs with the help of the Youngstown Business Incubator.

Axiom Zen, which labels itself as an «innovation studio,» is one of a new breed of company, more akin to incubators — organizations that support entrepreneurial ventures as they grow from concept to a going concern — than traditional businesses.

They joined forces with the foundation of Peter Thiel, the well - known contrarian investor, to launch Breakout Labs, an incubator program to help such companies turn their ideas into viable businesses.

Applicants must present a viable business plan to qualify for space, and most university incubators require that at least one member of the startup be a student or alumnus.

In a three day conference starting November 13, Startup Phenomenon attendees will discuss alternative funding models, potential collaboration between governments and private businesses and the role of incubators and accelerators in driving entrepreneurship.

Typically a healthy dose of entrepreneurship gets thrown in as well, as makerspaces double as incubators for business startups.

Last week, in a bit of juicy tech gossip, Business Insider leaked an internal memo from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham in which he urged his incubator's start - ups to stay away from Google Ventures.

While there are no official studies, Cambridge, Mass. - based consulting firm New Markets Advisors says that a «significant» portion of Fortune 500 companies — including Procter & Gamble, IBM, Walgreens and The Hershey Company — likely have some sort of incubator cooking in at least one business unit.

In the»80s, when he was mayor of Burlington, he helped oversee the conversion of old warehouses into small - business incubators.

«Given the pace of change that threatens established businesses, incubators are becoming more and more important to create growth options,» he says.

It's the dream of many entrepreneurs to get into an incubator program where they could hone their business model, get advice from mentors, and get connected to angel investors or venture - capital firms.

DroneDeploy, which just recently came out of the start - up incubator Angelpad, is another businesses focused on providing a drone - focused service.

It started as a modest co-working space in a former bank branch just a couple of years ago to a large, well - managed space and business incubator.

«You almost want to see the founder cry,» says David Tisch, a 30 - year - old angel investor and the managing director of the New York program of TechStars, a business incubator that is now in five cities.

Getting Your Name Out There as a Startup As part of our Project Grow series, we interviewed a number of business - incubator advisers and entrepreneurs about what works when it comes to raising awareness for a bootstrapped company.

At the end, rather than pitching their business plans to venture capitalists in a «demo day» — the standard model of startup incubators — the teams made «lessons learned» presentations, during which they explain how the customer feedback helped them shape their plans.

The startup falls under the umbrella of Store No. 8, the retail giant's first - ever technology incubator, created in an effort to compete with Amazon's e-commerce business.

Incubators provide numerous benefits to owners of startup businesses.

There's a long list of incubators across the country that likewise show a preference for impact - driven business ventures.

Companies typically spend an average of two years in a business incubator, during which time they often share telephone, secretarial office, and production equipment expenses with other startup companies, in an effort to reduce everyone's overhead and operational costs.

Shot at Founder's Co-op, a Seattle venture fund and tech incubator, the video shows the founders of web companies like LookStat and NearlyWeds writing code, discussing pricing, and sharing ideas about their businesses.

«That's a misconception I see all the time,» says Cynthia Goh, the founding director of University of Toronto's business incubator Impact Centre.

By connecting entrepreneurs to potential clients and mentors, investors and partners, community - based networking businesses can become incubators of growth.

Incubators can be a great way to get a fledgling business off the ground — but beware of marketing gimmicks that capitalize on eager entrepreneurs.

Lowe also mentors new entrepreneurs; serves as past chairman of the board for Biztech, a nonprofit high - tech business incubator; and is a co-founder and officer for the Alabama Information Technology Association.

Janeczko wanted to do something to help other people grow their own businesses, so he decided to gather funds from the sale of NuKitchen in 2010 to found Wicked Start, a free online incubator for early - stage small businesses.

Don't overlook business incubators, which are one - stop shops of space and services, including technical assistance.

A business incubator with the requisite foosball table, iHub spawned 48 companies by the end of 2011, and is now currently hosting seven.

It wants to offer fertile ground for local entrepreneurs, particularly in the poorer parts of the city, to start businesses and help them grow, empowering the incubator infrastructure to work as effectively as possible.

DroneDeploy, which just recently came out of the startup incubator Angelpad, is another businesses focused on providing a drone - focused service.

But after four years of operating a small startup incubator at a private liberal arts college I've learned a lot about creating business models that work and who might become a successful entrepreneur.

Places to start might be the chamber of commerce or small - business incubators.

Enter New Orleans Entrepreneur Week, a seven - day festival of speeches, classes, and advising run by business incubator Idea Village.

A question I often get as an adviser is whether or not to join a business incubator or accelerator as a way to move forward faster and smarter and increase the odds of business success.

# 3 — Co-working offices and «incubator» space The concept of co-working offices and «incubator» space is a popular one — these are small rental office areas in a larger complex that provide the very basic equipment for you to get your business started (a desk, a chair and a telephone line is usually about it!)

The 14 - person company has raised a total of $ 3.4 million in seed and Series A financing, as well as received a $ 2 million grant from the Department of Energy's SunShot Incubator Program, which funds up to $ 12 million in grant money to small businesses and entrepreneurs working on both hardware and software technology that makes solar more accessible for Americans.

A growing number of ambitious entrepreneurs are looking to supercharge their startups» growth by working with a business accelerator or incubator program.

When checking out an industry, «meet with people who are already involved in the space and see what they think of [your] concept and whether it has legs,» says Rex Falkenrath, the regional director of the Miller Business Innovation Center, a business incubator based in SandBusiness Innovation Center, a business incubator based in Sandbusiness incubator based in Sandy, Utah.

Two of Hsieh's close colleagues, Jeanne Markel and Maggie Hsu, arrived to give me a tour of the Downtown Project, a real - estate development and business incubator that over the last three years has transformed a formerly derelict section of Las Vegas known as Fremont East.

ZeroFOX was founded in January of 2013 and has collected a number of industry awards including being recognized as the CRN's Top 10 Security Companies, 2013 Maryland Cyber Company of the Year, Winner of Chesapeake Regional Technology Council 2014 Rising Star Award, Winner of the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Venture Association Capital Connection TechBuzz show in Washington D.C., «Incubator Company of the Year» for the state of Maryland in June 2013, and Baltimore Business Journal's «Top 5 Cyber Companies to Watch», «20 Most Promising Security Companies» by CIO Review, and Daily Record's «Innovator of the Year».