Echelon 2010 Part III

During the panel Discussion: Startup 2.0 Silicon Valley Story, the panels were discussing a topic related to startup incubators when a lady told the panels that incubators in Arizona is financed by government, not like in SV (during Q&A).

FYI, A business incubator is a system offering support for start-up businesses or recently founded ones. The facilities it offers go from financing, inexpensive office space, various business services (such as secretarial assistance) to management advice and support.

About Incubator in Arizona

While you can't do it alone, VC can actually accelerate your business. - Saeed Amidi (President&CEO at Plug and Play Tech Center)

Another talk by Gen Kanai, Director of Asia Business Development at Mozilla - http://blog.mozilla.org/gen/

During this case study session, he shared some ideas eg. : goo, a search engine which 15% of the profit goes to environmental-related NGO, pencil project, a sketching & prototyping app. built as an add-ons to Firefox

and for the latest Firefox 4.0, it's going to be fast: making Firefox super-duper fast, powerful: enabling new open, standard Web technologies (HTML5 and beyond), empowering: putting users in full control of their browser, data, and Web experience. - we're going to be able to download and use the add-ons w/o having to restart the browser! You can visit the blog here.

Oh and he shared one of interesting stuff here :D

Free Art & Technology Overview from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

As NGO, Mozilla doesn't compete in a traditional manner but rather developing more on their existing features.