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FIRST Robotics Regional competitions begin
March 5, 2010 | Filed under Blog, events
Imagine a sport where the participants put more hours in practicing in six weeks than other sports do in a whole year - and then they practice all year too! Imagine a sport where there is around a 1-2 ratio between coaches and participants. Imagine a sport where EVERY SINGLE participant can go pro, and [...]
The Entrepreneur’s Network begins recruiting 9th class
February 15, 2010 | Filed under Blog, Startup mentoring and coaching, Startups, TEN-NY, education, events
Apply now for the best value in Entrepreneur training and advancement available in the Rochester area.
20 questions to determine if you’re cut out to be an Entrepreneur…
February 13, 2010 | Filed under Blog, Startup mentoring and coaching, Startups, education
I was directed by my friend Pierpaulo Frigerio to this post by Dr. Isenberg at Babson College with the provocative 20 questions to help you determine if you’re cut out to be an entrepreneur. As with many of the talks I give to young entrepreneurs Isenberg believes that money is not and cannot be a motivating factor in becoming an Entrepreneur.
U of R Degree Program Trains Students to Turn Patents into Products
January 27, 2010 | Filed under Startup mentoring and coaching, education
U of R administrators have created a new graduate program designed to put the college’s vast collection of intellectual property to use in medical devices, consumer electronics and a variety of other applications instead of leaving them to collect dust. The Technical Entrepreneurship and Management (TEAM) program asks students to look through the archives of available patents, find ones that can be turned into profitable technologies, and then develop businesses around them.
Tenrehte’s smart grid wins CES Green Tech award
January 9, 2010 | Filed under Blog, Entrepreneur profile, Startups
Rochester, NY based Tenrehte Technologies Inc won the CNET Green Technologies award at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show. Their new PicoWatt smart plug will provide the benefits promised to consumers by a “smart grid” including real time electricity usage information and the ability to control all your appliances from a central plug. You can even control usage to make sure that high-energy using utilities operate at off-peak times - saving money.
Rochester, NY still faring well despite economy
December 21, 2009 | Filed under Politics, Startups, media
Rochester, NY ranks well in a variety of studies on our economy, crime rate, real estate and employment.
Tenrehte CEO selected as TED Fellow
December 14, 2009 | Filed under Blog
Jennifer Indovina, Tenrehte CEO is selected as one of 25 TED Fellows for the TED2010 Feburary conference.
RIT presents serial entrepreneur and investor Terry Matthews
December 10, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startup mentoring and coaching, Startups, Venture Capital, education, events, software development
Terry Matthews, the founder of more than 60 telecommunications, information technology and software companies, will discuss how to create successful new ventures during a 3 p.m. talk on Friday at Rochester Institute of Technology’s B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences Auditorium
Abby gets it wrong….
December 5, 2009 | Filed under Angel investment, Blog, Startup mentoring and coaching, Startups, media, newspapers
Dear Abby gives some bad advice about starting a business. I correct her. What hubris.
Rochester Works and NYS DOL hold entrepreneur workshop
October 5, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startup mentoring and coaching, education, events
RochesterWorks and NYS DOL are sponsoring a beginners program for people interested in creating a company. The workshop will be held Oct 21, 2009 from 9-11am and be free and open to the public with prior RSVP.
How does your city rank in terms of twitter influence
September 30, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startup mentoring and coaching, Startups, media
Fun with statistics in LocalTweeps
Do you have a Plan “B”?
September 29, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Entrepreneur-blog, Infotonics, Startup mentoring and coaching, Startups, TEN-NY, education
In follow-up to the TEN Lunch & Learn meeting held at the Infotonics Technology Center regarding “Plan B” technologies, we are reaching out to help you vet your good ideas. The Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) program realized this region holds many good ideas not presently being pursued that are well suited for [...]
Sorry for the long hiatus - exciting things in Rochester
September 25, 2009 | Filed under Entrepreneur-blog, Startup mentoring and coaching, Startups, Venture Capital, events, newspapers
A summary of the latest Rochester News affecting Entrepreneurs.
Only our highest achieving children being left behind.
August 28, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Politics, education, kids education, newspapers
NCLB is designed to help the underperforming sector of the population - at a detriment to performance of our best and brightest.
Service provider interview - The Entrepreneur’s Source
August 24, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Service provider profile, Startup mentoring and coaching, Startups
The Entrepreneur Source specializes in helping startups, largely through our partnership with the wonderful Entrepreneurial training regimen of the folks at Emyth Worldwide. Michael Gerber wrote the best seller The Emyth Revisited, which models the development of a business from good idea to a great plan to a successful business. It’s a remarkable step by step process that makes it a pleasure to use as a coaching tool.
Monroe Community College offers entrepreneur scholarship
July 28, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups, education, events, kids education
Monroe Community College is offering a 15 week tuition, fees and books scholarship for their Entrepreneurial Studies class. The scholarship is for the entire class cost (100% of tuition, textbooks and student fees) for this 3 credit hour course. The classes will run September 8th through December 23rd, 2009. The Business 110 Entrepreneurial studies course will cover small business opportunities, management of a small business, marketing and resources.
The Entrepreneur’s Network accepting applications for Class VIII
July 20, 2009 | Filed under Angel investment, Startup mentoring and coaching, Startups, TEN-NY, Venture Capital, education, events
As a TEN graduate myself, I can highly recommend TEN’s excellent program. As the press release below points out you get a $7500 value for only $350, thanks to the use of Monroe County and WIRED grant economic development funds. This is YOUR TAX DOLLARS at work, and an excellent example of how stimulus dollars [...]
Rochester Startup Techrigy acquired
July 16, 2009 | Filed under Blog
Rochester based technology star Techrigy proves that you can create a software development company and bring it to market in the Upstate NY area. Marketers throughout the world are now able to harness the power of the consumer’s voice within social media as an integral part of their online and offline marketing strategy
Rochester Open Coffee Club announces July meeting
July 7, 2009 | Filed under Angel investment, Startup mentoring and coaching, Startups, Venture Capital, events
The Rochester Open Coffee Club will hold it’s July open meeting at the Bagel Bin at 8:30am on Friday July 10th. The meeting is held in the back meeting room, off the main dining room.
Infotonics sponsors tech summer camp
June 22, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Infotonics, education, events, kids education
The Infotonics Technology Center (ITC) announced today that they are accepting applications from area high school students who are currently 16 or 17 years in age (or who will be 16 in 2009) for the SEMI High Tech U. program.
According to a recent study Rochester is in the top 20 metro areas!
June 19, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups, Venture Capital, media, newspapers
Rochester’s regional economy is in the top 20 of the 100 most populous metro areas according to a Brooking’s Institute study.
Entrepreneur Profile - Tenrehte, Inc.
June 17, 2009 | Filed under Entrepreneur profile, Entrepreneur-blog, Startups, Venture Capital
Company name: Tenrehte Technologies, Inc.
Principal: Jennifer Indovina
Website: www.tenrehte.com
Contact: jennifer.indovina@tenrehte.com
Industry Focus: Wireless semiconductors
# of employees: 5
Startup Stage: Bootstrapping our hardware development system, Linux run-time, and application software which validates and demonstrates our technology. On the business side we are raising seed capital, and engaging initial customers.
Lee Drake: Every entrepreneur learns early that a careful concise, one [...]
Eyes on the Future 2009 Economic Summit to feature Richard Bendis
June 12, 2009 | Filed under Blog, events
Eyes on the Future 2009 Economic Summit to feature Richard Bendis, CEO, Innovation America and
Eyes Expo, a Business and Career Event
ROCHESTER, N.Y., June 12-Last December, Richard Bendis lead discussions with the Obama transition team on government funding for entrepreneurism and job growth. This fall, Bendis will headline Eyes on the Future 2009, a Greater Rochester Region Economic Summit, to help guide a conversation on the area’s economic outlook.
The third annual conference will take place on Friday morning, October 16 at St. John Fisher College. The summit’s lead organizations, Greater Rochester Enterprise (GRE) and the Small Business Council of Rochester, (SBC) an affiliate of the Rochester Business Alliance, will also host the first ‘Eyes Expo,’ a business and career event focused on economic development and workforce alignment.
Bendis, an experienced corporate executive, venture capitalist, investment banker and leading consultant on technology and healthcare, leads a distinguished panel comprised of Rochester-based leaders. Panelists include Susan Holliday, publisher, Rochester Business Journal, Dr. Anne M. Kress, president, Monroe Community College, Richard Kaplan, president and CEO, Pictometry International, and Mark S. Peterson, president and CEO, GRE.
Thomas DiNapoli to speak at upstate venture capital event
May 27, 2009 | Filed under Blog, Startups, Venture Capital, events
On Tuesday June 2nd from 5-9pm NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli will provide details of the Common Retirement Fund’s in-state investment program to interested entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs who register for the event will be given a chance to present a one-minute pitch to the panelists.
CEN web seminar - post retracted
May 26, 2009 | Filed under Blog
I’ve been asked by Shannon at Cornell to not advertise this CEN web seminar on rochesterstartups.com.
