Incubator Thesis: Contributors so far ... more to be confirmed ...
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NEW: Includes comments from a Q&A session with Warren Buffett at MIT Sloan on 4-20-00.
Notice: All interview materials are considered confidential and proprietary to those companies interviewed. No direct references to the company will be made in the Thesis, other than in the "Contributors" section, unless otherwise requested. People and firms interviewed will not be quoted unless specifically requested by me and approved by the speaker.
Founders, Directors, and Partners of the following firms have been interviewed or have indicated their interest to participate (more to be confirmed):
| Incubators | Venture Capitalist | ||
| 1 | HotBank, I-Group | 1 | Softbank Ventures |
| 2 | IdeaLab, Boston | 2 | Sequoia Capital |
| 3 | IdeaLab, New York | 3 | East River Ventures |
| 4 | Cambridge Incubator | 4 | Matrix Partners |
| 5 | Lycos Labs | 5 | Polaris Ventures |
| 6 | Reach Internet Incubator | 6 | Zero Stage Capital |
| 7 | YankeeTek | 7 | Venture Partners AS |
| 8 | JP Morgan, LabMorgan, NYC | 8 | BPI Capital Partners, Inc. |
| 9 | JP Morgan, LabMorgan, London | 9 | Boston Capital Ventures |
| 10 | E-Start.com, London | 10 | Shaw Venture Partners |
| 11 | Concrete Media | 11 | Clarion Capital Partners |
| 12 | McKinsey Accellerator | 12 | Greylock |
| 13 | Blumberg Capital | 13 | Flatiron Partners |
| 14 | ADEN Enterprises | 14 | SpaceVest |
| 15 | Divine Interventures | 15 | PolyTechnos Venture-Partners GmbH (Germany) |
| 16 | CampSix | 16 | 21st Century Internet Venture Partners |
| 17 | Internet Capital Group (Nasdaq: ICGE) | 17 | Zone Ventures |
| 18 | KnowledgeCube | 18 | Bank of America Venture Partners |
| 19 | NewCoGen | 19 | Commonwealth Capital Venture Partners |
| 20 | Redstone7 | 20 | Motorola Ventures |
| 21 | Evanston Business & Technology Center | 21 | Silicon Valley Bank |
| 22 | Long Island High Technology Incubator | 22 | Draper Fisher Jurvetson |
| 23 | eVentures (Chile) | 23 | Trinity Ventures |
| 24 | Science and Technology Campus, Ohio State Univ. | 24 | Accel Partners |
| 25 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Incubator Program | 25 | Alta Partners |
| 26 | Boulder Technology Incubator | 26 | Venrock Associates |
| 27 | CenComV | 27 | Mission Ventures |
| 28 | Intend Change | 28 | Oak Hill Venture Partners |
| 29 | XL Vision | 29 | Doll Capital Management |
| 30 | iStart Ventures | 30 | Brinson Capital |
| 31 | Panasonic Internet Incubator | ||
| 32 | Venture Frogs | ||
| 33 | American Computer Foundation | ||
| 34 | Long Island High Technology Incubator, Inc. | ||
| 35 | Arizona Technology Incubator | ||
| 36 | Proctor & Gamble iVentures Incubator | ||
| 37 | American Computer Foundation | ||
| 38 | VentureFrogs | ||
| 39 | Koos Group Next Group (Japan / Taiwan / Hong Kong) | ||
| 40 | Incube8.com | ||
| 41 | Trilogy | ||
| 42 | Reactivity | ||
| 43 | Artemis Ventures | ||
| 44 | The Nelson Companies | ||
| 45 | NetValue Holdings, Inc. (OTC BB: NETV) | ||
| 46 | eHatchery | ||
| 47 | eVentures (UK) | ||
| 48 | Tech Pacific (Hong Kong) | ||
| 49 | eHive (formerly Middleburg Tech) | ||
| 50 | Trust Company of the Atlantic | ||
| 51 | iBelay.com | ||
| 52 | Brightspark (Canada) | ||
| 53 | Koffler Ventures | ||
| 54 | IncubAsia | ||
| 55 | StartUpAvenue (France) | ||
| 56 | Thermo Electron | ||
| 57 | iinc.com | ||
| 58 | TheElevator.com | ||
| 59 | Breakthrough Commerce | ||
| 60 | eCubator.com | ||
| 61 | NVST.com | ||
| 62 | Upside Ventures GmbH (Germany) | ||
| 63 | Gorilla Park (Amsterdam) | ||
| 64 | StartupNetwork.com | ||
| 65 | Aktivate | ||
| 66 | NVST.com | ||
| 67 | DotCom Ventures | ||
| 68 | eCompanies | ||
| 69 | GasPedal Ventures | ||
| 70 | Garage.com | ||
| 71 | Cambridge Technology Partners | ||
| 72 | IdeaEDGE | ||
| 73 | Benchmarking Partners | ||
| 74 | Capitalyst | ||
| 75 | Gorann (Ireland) | ||
| 76 | Protege (UK) | ||
| 77 | eIncubators | ||
| 78 | Zone Reactor | ||
| 79 | Katalyst | ||
| Other | |||
| 1 | LifeSpan BioSciences, Inc. | ||
| 2 | Neuvis (B2B e-commerce) | ||
| 3 | US Bancorp Piper Jaffray | ||
| 4 | Gilder Technologies | ||
| 5 | Robertson Stephens & Co | ||
| 6 | John Hagel (author of Net Worth) @ McKinsey | ||
| 7 | 3Com | ||
| 8 | National Business Incubator Association (NBIA) | ||
| 9 | Red Herring | ||
| 10 | Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway (question posed during Q&A at MIT Sloan on 4-20-00) | ||
| 11 | KPMG | ||