Partner Spotlight: MedTech
MedTech is a state-wide trade association with a mission to grow New York’s bio/med industry through connections and collaboration. Its members consist of life sciences and healthcare companies, academic research […]
Partner Spotlight: RocDev
Since its founding in 2015, RocDev has been a place for software engineers, product managers, and everyone in tech to come together to share experiences and learn from each other. […]
Partner Spotlight: Empire State Development
If you don’t know about Empire State Development, or ESD, you should. With its mission “to promote a vigorous and growing state economy,” ESD works to ensure the efficient use […]
Partner Spotlight: RDDC & RDP
With NextCorps’ location at the city’s epicenter, it should come as no surprise that one of our important partnerships is with the Rochester Downtown Development Corporation (RDDC). This non-profit is […]
Partner Spotlight: RG&E
One of NextCorps longest partnerships has been with Rochester Gas & Electric. RG&E — a subsidiary of AVANGRID — serves 378,500 electricity customers and 313,000 natural gas customers in the […]
No-Code Accelerates Software Entrepreneurship
3 Ideas in the Works by NextCorps Embark Startup Founders If you have an idea for a web or mobile application, you no longer need a small team of programmers […]
Partner Spotlight: Excell Partners
Many of our founders are working with Excell Partners, a VC fund that’s primarily focused on Upstate New York. It invests in high-tech, high-growth startups in New York State, and […]
Partner Spotlight: Greater Rochester Enterprise
One of the many resources that our business community has is Greater Rochester Enterprise (GRE). As the leading regional economic development organization, GRE is committed to attracting new capital investments, […]
Certainty Analytical Labs Empowers Hemp & CBD Distributors with Quality Data
An interview with Founder and CEO, Brandy Young, PhD What is Certainty Analytical Labs? Certainty Analytical Labs is a B2B compliance testing laboratory that services food and agricultural customers that […]
Meet Dan Dykens, NextCorps’ Newest Entrepreneur-in-Residence
As NextCorps continues to grow, so does our staff and support for entrepreneurs. We’re excited to have Dan Dykens joining our team as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Although Dan is a serial […]
How to Hire Quickly as a Startup
Takeaways from a Startup Week seminar with Pete Petrella It’s a sobering statistic that 25% of startups fail because they don’t have a strong team. During NextCorps’ Startup Week earlier […]
Startup Incubator vs. Startup Accelerator… What is the Difference?
By Matt Foley, Director of Startup Incubation Many startups these days know that it is a smart move to join a startup incubator or accelerator to stay motivated and accountable […]
Hardware Scaleup Celebrates Accomplishments of Cohort I and II
By Nicole Mauro On June 10, NextCorps and Rev: Ithaca Startup Works hosted a virtual event to celebrate the accomplishments made by the 18 cleantech startup companies enrolled in Cohort […]
9 Tips About Trade Shows and How to Maximize Your Attendance
By Sandy Sloane On June 3, Holly Barrett, Marketing Director of NextCorps, and Sandy Sloane, President of Solutions by Sloane and events consultant for Luminate, presented a workshop on making […]
A Playbook for Developing a Sales Culture
By Leo Linder All companies and customers have one thing in common. They all want to grow. To execute on their goals for growth, companies can either build internal processes […]
8 Steps to Thriving in a Downturn or Crisis
By Jamie Cornehlsen Although the ramifications of COVID-19 have changed our businesses and our immediate focus, there are actions we can take now to move forward and grow. To help […]
13 Things You Should Know About Sales
To Pittsburgh & Beyond
Back in January, NextCorps hosted a Hardware Challenge, where 11 teams came out to pitch their hardware companies to a panel of esteemed judges. You can catch the recap here. […]
How does your business measure up?
Have you been thinking about the social impact of your business? Is doing social good important to you as a business owner? The MeasureUp Finger Lakes program aims to inspire […]
How to Write Great Copy (and When to Hire a Great Copywriter Instead)
Mites Popping Like Popcorn, and other Hardware Innovations
This is a guest post by Devin Sandon, New Venture Specialist at NextCorps. The first NextCorps Hardware Challenge brought together a diverse group of passionate, articulate entrepreneurs addressing a wide range of challenges, in the hopes of honing their pitches, getting community […]
A Sneak Peek at the Hardware Challenge
This week at NextCorps, we’re hosting the Hardware Challenge Pitch Competition (save the date: it’s 1/26). We’re inviting hardware startups to come pitch to a panel of esteemed judges. Startups […]
Top 6 Takeaways from “Top Strategies for Raising Funds for Rochester Startups”
At this month’s sold out Lunch & Learn, we were joined by three professionals in the venture capital space in Western New York. Rami Katz of Excell Partners, Inc., Steve […]
Introducing: Hardware Scaleup
There’s a new program here at NextCorps! We are thrilled to announce that we’re the upstate home of Hardware Scaleup. What is Hardware Scaleup? Hardware Scaleup is funded by the […]
What Incubation Space Can Give You That Coworking Can’t
Here’s a fun fact for you: did you know that the very first startup incubator originated right in our backyard? In 1959, Joseph L. Mancuso opened the Batavia Industrial Center in a Batavia, […]
MedTech Meetup: A Recap
Last week, over 120 of the brightest minds in New York’s bio/med industry came together at the Saunders Research Building on the University of Rochester campus for learning and networking. […]
What an Accelerator Can Do for a Business
When Luminate launched last year, we knew the business accelerator would provide focused support—the kind that didn’t exist yet for startups with optics, photonics, and imaging enabled applications. What we […]
Help Us Shape What’s Next
Changes are coming to Rochester. Everywhere you look, there’s more life and more activity, especially in the heart of downtown. Here at NextCorps, we have both a new name and […]
