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November 18, 2003
Tuesday
 
 
Extraterrestrial seed corn
Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland)  Aerospace
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Over on RocketForge, Michael Mealing has an interesting discussion on how best to seed entrepreneurial space companies.

He lays out a good list of what an effective early stage incubator should provide:


  1. Funding
  2. Mentoring
  3. Market Development
  4. Ongoing Support

He feels none of the existing organizations fill the niche properly and asks: "So who's interested in building such a thing?"

Any takers?

Comments

Gee - I always thought the path to a successful business was:

Stage 1: Collect Underpants
Stage 2: ???
Stage 3: Profit


Posted by Left Field at November 18, 2003 02:42 PM

"So who's interested in building such a thing?"

The answer, of course, is "anyone who can make a profit out of it."

Which is to say, nobody.

And that is why nobody is doing it.


Posted by Andrew Duffin at November 18, 2003 03:37 PM

What I find curious, and annoying, is that a $100 billion dollar space station's sole achievement has been to earn the Russian's $20 million for a single visit.

:/


Posted by ed at November 19, 2003 10:53 PM
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