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10 College Business Incubators We’re Most Excited About

YoungUpstarts

To help foster this innovation, many colleges and universities have opened business incubators, helping students and others in their community to help make their innovative dreams a reality. Within the community, residents get access to co-ops, mentoring, courses, and always-on access to the incubator. enough to participate.

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Detroit Soup — Serving Hope & Innovation

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Amy Kaherl is the Director/Facilitator of Detroit Soup. I found it last night on NBC Nightly News, an inspirational story about Detroit Soup. . Here’s the concept: Detroit Soup is a monthly dinner to fund creative and entrepreneurial projects. This is not a charity, it’s a crowd-funding kind of incubator, thing.

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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

There was a computer training lab run by a company called Prosoft, but that's like having an Apex Tech and expecting to be the next Detroit. Sun's space was for it's customer assistance unit and Cornell just had a demo space patched into a supercomputer back on campus. So why didn't it work?

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The Maker Movement Is A New Mecca For Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Events for enthusiasts, called Maker Faires, now stretch far outside California to places such as Detroit, New York and even Shenzhen, China. Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, like lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

View More in Detroit ›. San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. Detroit Events ›. Business, life sciences, and technology news — covering Boston, Seattle, San Diego, Detroit, San Francisco, New York and beyond. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. Contact Us.

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One Hand Clapping – Entrepreneurship In Ann Arbor, Michigan

Steve Blank

Incubators : toured the TechArb , the engineering student accelerator, and the Michigan Venture Center in the University’s Tech Transfer Office. The TechArb is the engineering student accelerator/incubator (cofounded by the local VC ) and also embraces these ideas. It offers 35 entrepreneurship courses. Not My Problem.

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Mission Creep: How Nonprofits Can Stay True to Their Missions

Board Effect

Nonprofit Quarterly points to an example of mission creep at a Detroit, Michigan nonprofit that recognized mission creep was occurring and eventually turned things around successfully. A couple of examples will make clear how a nonprofit can stray from its mission even when a board has good intentions. Cunningham and Eleanor M.

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