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InNOLEvation Accelerator
About the InNOLEvation Accelerator
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The InNOLEvation Accelerator at The Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship is a student-centered, low-cost, and supportive business accelerator that helps start-up student businesses develop launch plans, get established and evolve to the point where they can operate independently. The accelerator connects enterprising students with mentors from faculty and the business community, provides professional office space and facilitates business development to help solve the myriad of problems every fledgling venture faces. Our goal is to create a relaxed learning environment where classroom education is made relevant for Florida State University’s student entrepreneurs who are developing new business ideas. This experiential component is crucial to make entrepreneurship a more integral part of Florida State University’s undergraduate student experience.
Room 117 on the first floor of the Rovetta Business Building serves as a focal point for undergraduate business start-up activity and provides student entrepreneurs with resources needed during start-up. With private office space to support as many as eight early stage ventures and a common area for students to take time out to discuss their ideas in a relaxed environment, we have designed the accelerator to nurture discussion and idea generation while providing students with opportunities for peer mentoring interactions. By facilitating hands-on learning and exploration in a supportive environment, the InNOLEvation Accelerator helps students turn their passion into a reality, while benefiting the student educational experience and furthering Florida State University’s mission of applied learning.
Accelerator residents are expected to work together to promote the success of each others' ventures. Residents are expected to demonstrate leadership in actively engaging and supporting entrepreneurial activities across the campus. Space is provided rent-free for up to one year (renewable annually). We provide admitted students with controlled access to the student accelerator facility and to shared computing and communications resources. As part of the accelerator, students are also able to access critical professional resources that student‐led ventures may require. Specifically, The Jim Moran Institute faculty and staff and experienced industry professionals from the local entrepreneurial business community serve as volunteers to advise the students on their efforts. These “Entrepreneurs-in-Residence” will coach the students on the analysis and execution of their venture, providing access to their network of industry and functional contacts. Examples include legal services for intellectual property or incorporation, financial accounting and bookkeeping, information technology, and other advice from professionals in industries of interest to businesses in the accelerator.
Common Application for Student Business Incubator and Student Business Grant
— Women and Minority Students are encouraged to apply!
Alumni and Virtual Clients
Resident Clients 2012-2013
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http://profifm.com/ Profi Facility Maintenance, founded by three Florida State University students, is a cleaning/janitorial company that specializes in cleaning student homes and apartments, commercial developers, residential builders, property managers, building owners, and homeowner associations. We have highly trained staff, dedicated managers, and share a vision that our competitors lack. Profi Facility Maintenance only hires the most ambitious, hardworking and dedicated employees who meet all of the criteria set forth by our managing team. Our employees are all background-checked as well as personally interviewed. Each employee has been through the Profi Facility Maintenance' training system and is physically and mentally capable of handling any task given to them. As an organization, we pride ourselves in making sure that we offer the best clean in town. In doing so, no home is complete unless every customer is 100 percent satisfied with their cleaning. Please remember that no mess is too big to handle.
Established 12/07/2010 |
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Nanotech Patronas Group NPGroup, Inc., provides structural health monitoring (SHM) of engineering structures like bridges and aircrafts. The NPGroup is in the business of providing advanced non-destructive and online structural monitoring systems and services for its clientele in the highway and air transport industries.Safety is a major concern for travelers and engineers, and has resulted in multi-billion dollar investments into building safer and stronger structures. There are about 4 billion vehicular crossings daily on the nearly 600,000 U.S. bridges, though a quarter of these bridges are deemed unsafe and structurally deficient. On August 1, 2007 Jane Smith assumed that the Minneapolis I-35W Bridge she crosses to work was safe. A total of 13 people died while 145 were injured when the bridge collapsed.Improving the safety of everyday travelers is our number one priority whether on land (civil infrastructures particularly bridges) or in air (aerospace). We develop effective, sustainable, economical, and reliable systems that detect dangers before they become disasters. NPGroup will optimize its strength by focusing on technology development, aggressive marketing, systems integration and customer support. We are also passionate and committed to the economic growth of Tallahassee and Florida. Our long-term goal is to create jobs for over 200 highly-skilled personnel from Tallahassee institutions like FAMU, FSU and TCC. Incubator 2012-2013 |
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LESSmob.com LESS, Inc. designs products that allow utility companies to increase efficiency and customer satisfaction and decrease peak load usage. LESS will develop three products to achieve this. The first product is designed to change consumer behavior so users shift power consumption to times of lower demand. The second product is an application for utility companies to increase efficiency in the field, and as such, to recover from outages more quickly. The third product is an integrated hardware and software solution that allows consumers to turn key appliances off during peak load times for short time periods.
Established 5/7/2012 |
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TownAhallic The Town is committed to making your large, impersonal, and disconnected city feel more like an inclusive, connected town. This is achieved by the creation of our mobile application which allows businesses and city officials to post information about events, landmarks and other relevant information. The users (citizens) would then be able to access this information in order to plan their evenings, learn about their community, or just try something brand new. The software will be designed to be easy to use for both the businesses or city officials, as well as for the end users. Our goal to establish ourselves as every citizen or visitor's first and only stop for local information. Incubator 2012-2013 |
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College Cabs On a campus where nightlife is the norm among a majority of students, there lies a huge demand for safe transportation. The majority of students must resort to the inefficient taxi cab industry and request cabs through a dispatch office. Our generation currently is going through a data boom where college students are constantly using their smart phones for just about any task possible. As smart phone technology advances we find ourselves in a time where convenience is the key to efficiency. When technology advances at an exponential rate, it is only a matter of time for other industries to follow. CollegeCabs plans to combine the high demand for taxicabs with the convenience of the smart phone to revolutionize the taxicab industry. Our mission is to capture the night life transportation experience by creating a phone application that will allow students to connect and request transport from the nearest possible taxi cab driver based on their location. Using GEO locations, we will maximize efficiency for both customer and driver. From requesting the cab to the final payment, CollegeCabs will provide efficiency and convenience to both customers and cab drivers
Check out the College Cabs informational video |
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Lipid Nanotechnologies Incubator 2012-2013 |
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Moolaguides Are you a college student with an upcoming exam? Then Moolaguides.com is the place for you. Whether you are attempting to make some moola by selling your notes, or are a student seeking to buy notes from another student, Moolaguides.com has your solution. Moolaguides.com offers students a platform to do up to two things: Get better grades, and make more money. There are two user groups on the site: Buyers and Sellers. The Seller group is comprised of dedicated, high-achieving students that want to earn some extra cash. These Sellers take detailed notes in their classes, and then generate effective study and review materials to sell on the Moolaguides website. Buyers are comprised of students whom: are struggling in a particular course, missed class on any given day, or only want additional notes to compensate for or improve their own. These Buyers purchase reasonably priced access to notes and guide created by the Sellers (who then get a nice cut for their effort). With the right kind of students generating content for their Buying counterparts, Moolaguides stands to be profitable, educational, and very simple to utilize for all involved. Moolaguides was selected as a finalist in the 2013 Cupid's Cup Business Competition Incubator 2013 |
Virtual Clients 2012-2013
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DowntoTrade™ DowntoTrade.com™ is an online marketplace for college students with .edu emails. Buy and sell your textbooks, notes, tickets, furniture, and any thrift items as well as connect with students for subleases and tutoring. Above it all, our purpose is to inspire students to be apart of something greater then themselves through our Pay it Forward program, where we will be donating all profit from our Notes tab to the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life! Incubator 2013 |
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Business to Business Solutions Business to Business Solutions’ mission is to provide the underprivileged with the tools necessary to succeed in today’s digital economy. B2B is a community resource, providing assistance, training, and support to the underprivileged. We also aim to promote economic growth on local, regional, and national levels. Incubator 2013 |
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FinAddix utilizes a sales force of Charter Captains around the world, who are certified in their “Making Memories Reel” technology to help anglers memorialize their prized catch – utilizing the FinAddix mobile app. Captains snap the photo, choose the desired size, and enter the shipping and billing information. In less than two weeks, a professionally printed custom wall print arrives on their doorstep. FinAddix products are perfect for displaying in the Man Cave, Office, or Family Room. Incubator 2013 |
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Nutrition Experts, LLC Nutrition Experts' goal is to create increased access to registered dietitians and medical nutrition therapy services. We initially plan to launch in the Big Bend area of Florida. We offer flexible and up-to-date services using the Internet and mobile technology.
Established 4/10/2012 |
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Applied Sciences and Technology AppSciTech was founded by Computer Science and Physics Majors here at FSU. At AppSciTech we use math, information theory, and programming know-how to build robots which can interpret massive amounts of information and produce meaningful, actionable results on a wide variety of data. Our flagship product: Project MIDAS is our first example of such a system, it is a robot that can be deployed in any market in the world. MIDAS uses a proprietary algorithmic suite to produce favorable results in financial markets using automation and publicly available data. In the future we plan on adding additional analytic capability to include sentiment analysis of textual information and artificial intelligence. Incubator 2013 |
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Tally Sober Scooters
Tallahassee is known for its extremely high DUI rates. This can ruin a person’s life! Tally Sober Scooters will provide students with a solution to getting themselves and their cars home at the end of the night without having to worry. For the price of a cab, you can have our service come and get you AND your car home!
Incubator 2013 |
