Marshall Goodman: Ex-administrator For USF Helping Collier County | TheLedger.com:
This answers the age-old questions: To Incubate or NOT to incubate?
A: Incubators definitely have advantages for cluster development and rapid business startup.
But, that doesn't assure that it is a great investment for that governments to jump into.
Where do old business incubator guys go when they get old?
A: They go to Collier County, of course. Think Naples and Big Cypress National Preserve.
Here's a longer version of the story by Maria Perez in the Maples Daily News (and TBO.com).
During that time about 2010, we were trying to meet with Goodman to springboard off of the wild success he was having with 3 incubators. No success, for us on a meeting. All three incubators were rumored to be full and hugely successful. In Highlands County, we were aiming to advance the inventions from USF that were better commercialized in the heartland of Florida, not the cities.
Well let's see how far $3.8M goes in Collier county. With an assurance of 10 to 15 companies within 6 months, how can they possibly go wrong?
Can't wait to see where this one goes.
Keywords: Business Incubator, Economic Development
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Florida Business Incubation Association: Florida Incubators
Florida Business Incubation Association:
Business incubators are so very cool. Generally they bring together all the components a business will need to get started or to expand. This usually includes funding sources. But as important are the key services that every organization needs. Business advice (often tied in to the SBA's Small Business Development Centers -- SBDC)... Accounting, IT, Intellectual Property protection (patents, TM, C,...), secretarial services, etc. Lots of marking help are critical, web site, search engine optimization and more... See the SBDC for Florida.
Frequently incubators are tied in to the science departments of universities so the inventions of the academic world can be transported into the business world.
An entrepreneur (or two) can't do everything within the startup business. The incubator helps coach them into giving up some of the jobs at the company so that they can focus on one (or two).
Often there are reduced costs for incubatees who are accepted into an incubator...
There always is a graduation process for the incubatee as he/she grows up to be an adult company!:-)
Incubators often have internal and external networks to help engage veterans and peers in their efforts.
Here's the place to go for Business Incubator info -- National Business Incubator Association: https://www.nbia.org/
* Find your incubator here based on region and or type of incubator.
Check out the incubators in your area:
* Florida ... or Florida Business Incubator Association...
* Georgia
* California
Business incubators are some times called accelerators, since they accelerate the process of a business moving forward.
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Business incubators are so very cool. Generally they bring together all the components a business will need to get started or to expand. This usually includes funding sources. But as important are the key services that every organization needs. Business advice (often tied in to the SBA's Small Business Development Centers -- SBDC)... Accounting, IT, Intellectual Property protection (patents, TM, C,...), secretarial services, etc. Lots of marking help are critical, web site, search engine optimization and more... See the SBDC for Florida.
Frequently incubators are tied in to the science departments of universities so the inventions of the academic world can be transported into the business world.
An entrepreneur (or two) can't do everything within the startup business. The incubator helps coach them into giving up some of the jobs at the company so that they can focus on one (or two).
Often there are reduced costs for incubatees who are accepted into an incubator...
There always is a graduation process for the incubatee as he/she grows up to be an adult company!:-)
Incubators often have internal and external networks to help engage veterans and peers in their efforts.
Here's the place to go for Business Incubator info -- National Business Incubator Association: https://www.nbia.org/
* Find your incubator here based on region and or type of incubator.
Check out the incubators in your area:
* Florida ... or Florida Business Incubator Association...
* Georgia
* California
Business incubators are some times called accelerators, since they accelerate the process of a business moving forward.
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