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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. Offering a “holistic entrepreneurship program,” this residential community has entrepreneurship at every step of the college experience.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

Sramana Mitra said not to long ago in Forbes : “I have come to observe that most business school programs have an extensive emphasis on fundraising, especially from venture capitalists, and very little pragmatic understanding of what it really takes to get a venture off the ground. ” It’s true. Step #2: Pitch investors.

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Boston Startup School Graduates To Institute With New York Expansion

ReadWriteStart

A new school designed to teach people the necessary skills to work within the chaos that are startups is coming to New York. The Startup Institute is an eight-week program for people that want to gain the necessary skills to work in a startup and find a job. The program proved to be a strong success.

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The New York Times Launches TimeSpace, Its Own Startup Incubator/Accelerator

VC Cafe

The New York Times is launching a new startup accelerator, TimeSpace, a 4 month program taking in early stage media startups into the NYT Headquarters.

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Investors Love Top Startup Incubator Graduates

Startup Professionals Musings

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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[Seoul] Serviced Office Cum Business Incubator WAHA Offices Opens New Location

YoungUpstarts

Rising along with Korea’s burgeoning entrepreneurship ecosystem, Seoul-based WAHA Offices - a serviced office and business incubator hybrid office solutions targeted at startup companies – last week opened its third location, after its first in Seoul’s Gangam district and its second in Singapore.

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Digital.NYC: The First Ecosystem Hub

Gust

On October 1st, 2014, after more than two years of partnership and development, Gust proudly joined the Mayor of the City of New York and IBM in announcing the launch of Digital.NYC , NYC’s new official hub for tech and startups.