by Jobe Leonard | Dec 9, 2016 | Startup Incubator News | 0 Comments
Coming into full force next year, Smorgasbord is an organisation dedicated to supporting and incubating food startups. Smorgasbord is dedicated to building and sustaining the food and beverage sector in SA through their platform dubbed Feasts. This...
by Jobe Leonard | Dec 9, 2016 | Startup Incubator News | 0 Comments
6. FitBit is close to buying software assets from Pebble, Bloomberg reports. CEO Eric Migocovsky is reportedly joining startup incubator Y Combinator. 7. The latest idea from Google’s moonshot factory is a service where drones deliver your food for $6...
by Jobe Leonard | Dec 9, 2016 | Startup Incubator News | 0 Comments
Going to startup event after startup event and hoping to get a nugget of wisdom or to speak to a “VC.” Learning at Fownders startup incubator in Newark and taking thoughtful steps as you live in your parents home. The Wall Street Journal writes What...
by Jobe Leonard | Dec 9, 2016 | Startup Incubator News | 0 Comments
It calls for a new interchange at Olive and Lindbergh boulevards and a bike trail connecting the Danforth Center and St. Louis County’s biotech startup incubator, the Helix Center. Plans also call for a new building to house startups and other plant...
by Jobe Leonard | Dec 9, 2016 | Startup Incubator News | 0 Comments
While there are others, I believe that an important factor for success is determination. Paul Graham – the founder of a startup incubator in Silicon Valley – wrote this: We learned quickly that the most important predictor of success is determination...
by Jobe Leonard | Dec 9, 2016 | Startup Incubator News | 0 Comments
The Pebble offices will be closed down and CEO Eric Migicovsky will leave –apparently to join startup incubator Y Combinator. Bloomberg’s sources claim a purchase price of under $40 million, with FIT taking on none of Pebble’s debt. Some of the $40...
by Jobe Leonard | Dec 9, 2016 | Startup Incubator News | 0 Comments
Just a week and a half after Bilderberg’s June 2016 meeting it was reported that [Silicon Valley tech startup incubator] Y-Combinator was running a basic income experiment. Billed as the “Social Vaccine of the 21st Century,” in Oakland, California...
by Jobe Leonard | Dec 9, 2016 | Startup Incubator News | 0 Comments
Personal care giant Johnson & Johnson is looking to invest in startup businesses with the help of Hax, a Shenzen-based startup incubator. The program will see the two companies come together to find, develop and invest in startips that want to develop a...
by Jobe Leonard | Nov 3, 2016 | Startup Incubator News | 0 Comments
PEACHTREE CORNERS, GA — Prototype Prime, the long-anticipated, city-backed startup incubator in Peachtree Corners, is now open. More than 60 people attended a grand opening celebration at the incubator, located in renovated office space just above city...
by Jobe Leonard | Nov 3, 2016 | Startup Incubator News | 0 Comments
SK Telecom will jointly establish a Facebook Campus, the world’s first telecom infrastructure startup incubation center, in Korea with the world’s largest social networking service (SNS) provider, the company announced Thursday. The nation’s largest...
by Jobe Leonard | Nov 3, 2016 | Startup Incubator News | 0 Comments
The Intel Maker Lab has also tied up with IIT Mumbai and the Department of Science & Technology, two government arms promoting science in the country, to launch Plugin, a hardware startup incubator. Additionally, government initiatives like Make In India...
by Jobe Leonard | Nov 3, 2016 | Startup Incubator News | 0 Comments
New initiatives by the company include digital marketing partnerships with fintech companies Agility Forex Ltd. and Mogo Finance Technology Inc., launched earlier this year, and a digital lab at Kitchener,ON-based startup incubator Communitech. In addition...