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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

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he's been spinning out of his incubator. What's the idea behind the incubator? Now, we're turning into a formal incubator. However, we're very different than most incubators, in that we only do big data. Second, we only incubate companies we ourselves start.

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FatCloud Accelerates.NET Application Development, Backed by Elevator Labs

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The new company is headed by Ian Miller, and is backed by startup incubator Elevator Labs. Miller has previously served at such companies as IBM, Platform Computing, Cray Inc., The company said it already has a number of customers, including Cricket Wireless's Muve Music streaming service. PolyServe and Hewlett-Packard. READ MORE>>.

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A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading.

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8 Keys To Innovation And Responding To Market Change

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As I “grew up” in business in big companies, including IBM, I always wondered why the real innovations seemed to come from startups, while we had more resources and more experience. Build a small dedicated team, sometimes called strategic planning, or change incubator.

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6 Funding Resources For Ideas Needing More Validation

Startup Professionals Musings

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Applied research is still primarily scientific study, seeking to solve practical problems, but doesn’t yet focus on a commercial product. Commercial product prototypes.

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6 Sources of Help For Early Stage Concept Exploration

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Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Applied research is still primarily scientific study, seeking to solve practical problems, but doesn’t yet focus on a commercial product. Commercial product prototypes.

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StartEngine Raises $5M For New Crowdfunding Effort

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Chernick is the former founder of software company Candle Corporation, which he sold to IBM back in 2004. StartEngine, the onetime startup accelerator, has remade itself as an online, equity crowdfunding site, helping companies to raise money via crowdfunding. READ MORE>>.

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