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UTSA Opens New Venture Incubator on Campus
The University of Texas at San Antonio has opened a new facility on campus that will offer office and laboratory space to technology entrepreneurs as a way to help them grow their companies. The UTSA Center for Innovation and Technology Entrepreneurship opened up the New Venture Incubator as part of its ongoing efforts to foster the development of more home-grown tech firms. The New Venture Incubator is located on UTSA's Main Campus and is managed by the Center for Innovation and Technology Enterpreneurship.
Syracuse University Student's Business Featured in Inc. Magazine
Ryan Dickerson's business started with a backache. Now Dickerson and his creation, a 6-foot long pillow that turns the average twin bed found in any dorm room into a couch, are in the pages of Inc. magazine in a feature story about companies started by college students. Dickerson, 20, is a junior majoring in economics at Syracuse University. His company, Rylaxing Inc. makes and sells a firm pillow that turns the average college dorm bed into a couch. When he showed up at Falcone Center for Entrepreneurship at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at the beginning of this school year, Executive Director Tom Kruczek said he was impressed with Dickerson right away.
BR Overhauls Business Incubator Approach
In a dramatic overhaul, the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, LSU, Southern University and other partners will rewrite the way they spur research-based businesses and jobs into being. The groups - which include two business incubators at LSU and the Louisiana Technology Park on Florida Boulevard - are recommending that a new umbrella organization be created to mobilize all the efforts of incubating new high-growth research and technology businesses.
Tech-Savvy Duo Have Turned Their Md.-Based Company Into Online Advertising Powerhouse
One of the biggest players in mobile advertising, Millennial Media, is based in Baltimore. The company - founded by Paul Palmieri and Chris Brandenburg in 2006 - got in on the ground floor of the emerging industry. Millennial Media, a graduate of the Emerging Technology Centers in Baltimore, won NBIA's 2008 Outstanding Incubator Client award in the technology category.
Venture Capital Firms Sought to Boost Fitzsimons Life-Science Incubator
Nestled between a golf course and a campus of thousands of researchers, the life-science incubator is missing perhaps just one feature that could turn the area into a major biotech hub. A cluster of venture capital firms.
An Entrepreneur's View on the Benefits of Coworking
We've all heard of the big company that started as two guys in their garage, but these days, with startup organizations and incubators, more and more success stories seem to feature companies that built their success from group collaboration. One excellent example of how startups can take advantage of collaboration is to work in a coworking environment with other companies and entrepreneurs. Tuesday I had the opportunity to chat with Harry Lin, CEO of Lottay, an online gifting service that has spent a large portion of its short history coworking with outside developers and entrepreneurs. In December they moved into a space at the Ventura Ventures Technology Center where they work alongside other consumer Internet startups, sharing ideas and resources.
