Baltimore Is Getting Its First Startup Incubator • Hacker News Board

Re: Baltimore Is Getting Its First Startup Incubator

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Post by Smirnoff » Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 10:56 PM UTC

subelsky wrote: post #43

Smirnoff wrote: post #39

Mike, I have two people on my team and we live in Baltimore. Should we apply as a team or separately? Also, our product is targeting Russian market. Is that a problem? Do you only accept companies that target US to begin with? Thanks

you should definitely apply as a team. We would love to back a company targeting Russia! It's a global economy, right? Also there's a large Russian population in Baltimore FWIW

Awesome. We will definitely look into this opportunity.

Thanks Mike.

Re: Baltimore Is Getting Its First Startup Incubator

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Post by sausagefeet » Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 11:38 PM UTC

subelsky wrote: post #52

sausagefeet wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the difference between this and something like ETC on Boston St? They have The Hive which is a cheap place for startups to go (do they lack funding?).

The ETC is great but does not provide funding, and you have to pay rent for the office space (though the leases are on startup-friendly terms, graduated rates, etc). The ETC will actually be providing their services (consulting, introductions, etc) to our portfolio

Awesome cool.

Re: Baltimore Is Getting Its First Startup Incubator

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Post by philjackson » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 9:16 AM UTC

Omar's-a-comin' ... and he's got 25% equity thanks to the last round.

Re: Baltimore Is Getting Its First Startup Incubator

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Post by mindgrub » Thu, Mar 10, 2011, 7:26 AM UTC

Baltimore is a tech hot bed right now. Between our Universities, culture and under-doggedness we are going to seriously crush it these next couple of years. I missed out on funding to start my mobile company 5 years ago because I didn't want to move out west. Now I'm happy to say its game time without it.