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Garages are for cars, not startups: 茄子直播's Joseph Orozco in the Globe and Mail

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Joseph Orozco, executive director of 茄子直播's Entrepreneurship Hatchery, says startups will benefit when a new Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering building opens its doors this spring (photo by Neil Ta)

The mythology of the successful tech startup usually involves a novel idea, a brilliant dropout and a grubby garage. 

But Joseph Orozco, executive director of The Entrepreneurship Hatchery at the University of Toronto, says the reality is often much different.

鈥淣ot all entrepreneurs are brilliant misfits toiling away over stale pizza and cold coffee in makeshift spaces,鈥 . 

鈥淢any are researchers whose insight is to translate a scientific discovery into a product or service that meets a market need. And while academic laboratories may be ideal for hatching new ideas, they are often ill-equipped to nurture the resulting business through to maturity.鈥

That's why 茄子直播 鈥 among the North American leaders in producing research-based startups 鈥   catering to different types of startups at various stages in their development. 

They include the Hatchery, which this spring will move into the new on 茄子直播鈥檚 downtown Toronto campus. 

The new, state-of-the-art facility will provide space for budding entrepreneurs to build prototypes, demonstrate them to potential partners and funders, and network with more experienced startup founders. 

鈥淢ore than ever before, I hear from students that they want to take their careers into their own hands,鈥 Orozco writes. 

鈥淚 believe we have an obligation to give the next generation a quality place to start up: a bright, warm, clean space to spark fresh ideas and design their own futures.鈥

 

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