<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Nada importante sucedio hoy...: about startups</title><link>http://www.nadaimportante.org/en/startups/</link><description>Blog on entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and venture capital.</description><item><title>Pending since some time ago: Barack Obama Loves Startups: New Federal Office for Early-Stage Entrepreneurs</title><link>http://www.nadaimportante.org/895/</link><description>Pending since some time ago: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/09/barack-obama-loves-startups-ne.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Barack Obama Loves Startups: New Federal Office for Early-Stage Entrepreneurs&lt;/a&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:34:43 -0200</pubDate><guid>http://www.nadaimportante.org/895/</guid></item><item><title>A short article about the process of creating a new company has been recently published by Nature: Start up and succeed. </title><link>http://www.nadaimportante.org/893/</link><description>A short article about the process of creating a new company has been recently published by Nature: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2009/091126/full/nj7272-530a.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Start up and succeed&lt;/a&gt;. For those that do not have too much knowledge about the process, it is interesting. It is oriented toward scientists who want to create a company, so it includes a few paragraphs on university spinoffs.</description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:57:21 -0200</pubDate><guid>http://www.nadaimportante.org/893/</guid></item><item><title>&Oslash;resund Innovation: The Who's Who Index, a catalogue of actors offering innovation support in Denmark</title><link>http://www.nadaimportante.org/791/</link><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oresundinnovation.org/asp/default.asp?pid=36&quot;&gt;&amp;Oslash;resund Innovation&lt;/a&gt;: The Who's Who Index, a catalogue of actors offering innovation support in Denmark</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:33:33 -0300</pubDate><guid>http://www.nadaimportante.org/791/</guid></item><item><title>7 great ways to finance a startup</title><link>http://www.nadaimportante.org/736/</link><description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/03/magazines/fsb/raising.money.fsb/index.htm?postversion=2007050407&quot;&gt;7 great ways to finance a startup&lt;/a&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:26:13 -0300</pubDate><guid>http://www.nadaimportante.org/736/</guid></item><item><title>Kauffman Foundation study shows consistent entrepreneurial growth and increasing foreign-born start ups: Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity</title><link>http://www.nadaimportante.org/723/</link><description>Kauffman Foundation study shows consistent entrepreneurial growth and increasing foreign-born start ups: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kauffman.org/items.cfm?itemID=861&quot;&gt;Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity&lt;/a&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 12:43:26 -0300</pubDate><guid>http://www.nadaimportante.org/723/</guid></item><item><title>I asked about governance in the biotech industry in Atlanta. </title><link>http://www.nadaimportante.org/707/</link><description>I asked about governance in the biotech industry in Atlanta. The answer: &quot;Nobody knows who govern the biotech ecosystem... In fact [thinking a bit more], big pharma and universities do that&quot;.</description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:49:02 -0300</pubDate><guid>http://www.nadaimportante.org/707/</guid></item><item><title>Charlie Paparelli writting about the Atlanta’s Startup Ecosystem: The Atlanta Nest.</title><link>http://www.nadaimportante.org/706/</link><description>Charlie Paparelli writting about the Atlanta’s Startup Ecosystem: &lt;a href=&quot;http://paparelli.typepad.com/cafe/2006/04/the_atlanta_nes.html&quot;&gt;The Atlanta Nest&lt;/a&gt;.</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:40:01 -0300</pubDate><guid>http://www.nadaimportante.org/706/</guid></item><item><title>Atlanta's biotech startup ecosystem (2)
</title><link>http://www.nadaimportante.org/704/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;Atlanta's biotech startup ecosystem (2)&lt;/b&gt;
This is a new version of the so called &quot;startup ecosystem&quot; in the biotech industry in Atlanta. In fact, this is a simplification, because I am only listing organizations and not relationships nor programs nor activities developed by them.
Since I could not find any source of information where this ecosystem is defined, I decided to build its structure by myself. This is helpful for my research at Georgia Tech.
Here is an updated version of the organizations participating in the ecosystem (still unfinished). I am not sure to use a functional classification like this one, but I suppose it is a good start:

- Entrepreneurs / faculty / scientists.

- Universities:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gatech.edu/&quot;&gt;Georgia Institute of Technology&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emory.edu/&quot;&gt;Emory University&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gsu.edu/&quot;&gt;Georgia State University&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uga.edu/&quot;&gt;The University of Georgia&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mcg.edu/&quot;&gt;Medical College of Georgia&lt;/a&gt;

- Funding organizations (business angels, venture capital firms, grants):
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sbir-georgia.org/&quot;&gt;SBIR Georgia&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.atdc.org/&quot;&gt;ATDC Seed Capital Fund&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gra.org/if_programannouncement.asp&quot;&gt;Georgia Research Alliance Innovation Fund&lt;/a&gt;

- Incubators:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.atdc.org/&quot;&gt;Advanced Technology Development Center&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emtechbio.com/&quot;&gt;Emtech Bio&lt;/a&gt; (2000)
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.biobusiness.uga.edu/&quot;&gt;The Georgia BioBusiness Center&lt;/a&gt; (2000)
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mcg.edu/incubator/&quot;&gt;Life Sciences Business Development Center and Innovation Center&lt;/a&gt;

- Industry organizations:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metroatlantachamber.com/&quot;&gt;Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.atlantabioscience.com/council.asp&quot;&gt;Metro Atlanta Bioscience Council&lt;/a&gt; (part of the Chamber of Commerce)

- &quot;One-stop&quot; centers:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://venturelab.gatech.edu/&quot;&gt;Georgia Tech VentureLab&lt;/a&gt;

- &quot;Catalyst&quot; organizations:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://lifesciences.georgiainnovation.org/&quot;&gt;Georgia Centers of Innovation&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gra.org/&quot;&gt;Georgia Research Alliance&lt;/a&gt; (1990)
&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.gabio.org/&quot;&gt;Georgia Biomedical Partnership&lt;/a&gt; (1989)
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cas.gsu.edu:81/units/default.aspx?unit=biotech&quot;&gt;Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design&lt;/a&gt; (1994)

All these organizations claim participation in the Atlanta's biotech startup ecosystem, even though I could not establish clearly yet the different patterns of participation of each one.
Feel free to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kay.com.ar/en/contacto/&quot;&gt;contact me&lt;/a&gt; for corrections or suggestions. I hope I will provide a more complete description in a few days. Thanks.</description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 23:07:56 -0300</pubDate><guid>http://www.nadaimportante.org/704/</guid></item><item><title>Atlanta's biotech startup ecosystem
</title><link>http://www.nadaimportante.org/702/</link><description>&lt;b&gt;Atlanta's biotech startup ecosystem&lt;/b&gt;
I was browsing the web searching for more information about the so called &quot;startup ecosystem&quot; in the biotech industry, particularly in Atlanta. The idea to add here all the components of this ecosystem, it will be useful for future reference in my work (&lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/nadaimportante&quot;&gt;my del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt; is getting very disorganized).
Here is the list (unfinished):

- Entrepreneurs / scientists (not necessarily the same individual has both roles).

- Universities:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gatech.edu/&quot;&gt;Georgia Institute of Technology&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emory.edu/&quot;&gt;Emory University&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gsu.edu/&quot;&gt;Georgia State University&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uga.edu/&quot;&gt;The University of Georgia&lt;/a&gt;

- Funding organizations: business angels, venture capital firms, grants.
For example:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sbir-georgia.org/&quot;&gt;SBIR Georgia&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.atdc.org/&quot;&gt;ATDC Seed Capital Fund&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gra.org/if_programannouncement.asp&quot;&gt;Georgia Research Alliance Innovation Fund&lt;/a&gt;

- Incubators:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.atdc.org/&quot;&gt;Advanced Technology Development Center&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.emtechbio.com/&quot;&gt;Emtech Bio&lt;/a&gt;

- &quot;One-stop&quot; centers:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://venturelab.gatech.edu/&quot;&gt;Georgia Tech VentureLab&lt;/a&gt;

- &quot;Catalyst&quot; organizations:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://lifesciences.georgiainnovation.org/&quot;&gt;Georgia Centers of Innovation&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gra.org/&quot;&gt;Georgia Research Alliance&lt;/a&gt;

Is not easy to categorize some organizations, because they develop several functions at the same time and with a different emphasis.
Feel free to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kay.com.ar/en/contacto/&quot;&gt;contact me&lt;/a&gt; for corrections or suggestions. I hope I will provide a more complete list in a few days. Thanks.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:50:59 -0300</pubDate><guid>http://www.nadaimportante.org/702/</guid></item></channel></rss>

