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Business Winners Grow at Tech Garden
Darlene Kerr | Mon, May 21st, 2007

Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin are two college students who had a bright idea. As students at Stanford University, Larry met Sergey and together they developed and ran Google, which began operating in 1998, and is now a multi-billion dollar Internet search engine with over 10,000 employees worldwide.
While we all can only hope to launch the next great idea, this is a perfect example of two every-day people who took their concept to the next level and made it reality. Ideas like these are being fostered every day at the Syracuse Technology Garden in downtown Syracuse.
In fact, four of the nine businesses that were semi-finalists in the recently-completed EssentialConnections.org Emerging Business Competition have taken advantage of the range of assistance available to emerging and early stage businesses at the Tech Garden.
The winner of the competition, e2e Materials, was awarded $100,000 at the Metropolitan Development Association’s annual meeting April 5.   
Antek Inc., BioAxxis Development Corporation, Bulletproof Linux and Propulsive Wing, LLC were semi-finalists and BioAxxis Development Corporation and Propulsive Wing, LLC were finalists in the competition.  Bulletproof Linux is a current resident of the Hot House (the shared tenancy office-area for pre-revenue new business clients).
Each company, all with different goals and objectives, accessed services offered at the Tech Garden such as the entrepreneur in residence program and business review conducted as part of the Tech Garden’s Pre-Seed Workshop series. These companies are committed to developing their high-tech businesses, basing them in Syracuse and contributing to the growth of the regional economy.
Bob Andrews, director of marketing at BioAxxis said recently, “The Syracuse Technology Garden provided invaluable help during our adventure in the Emerging Business Competition.  In particular the three entrepreneurs-in-residence gave us so much of their time, energy, insights, and experience that we are tremendously grateful.  Many of the judges from the first round through to the finals noted many times how much we had improved our messaging and our presentation and plans.  I only wish we went to the Tech Garden sooner because we really could have used the resources as we were starting our business.”
Paul Brooks, executive director of the Technology Garden, says the facility, services, resources and access to the business and academic community are exceptional.  It provides an environment in which a new technology business can receive a jump-start on its way to building a thriving, wealth-generating organization.
A project of the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, the Technology Garden also offers access to a network of partnerships providing clients with connections to leading businesses, technical service providers and academic institutions. Client-tenants are comprised of a variety of high-tech start-up companies that specialize in areas such as software development, Internet security, Web-based services and environmentally-friendly fertilizers and pesticides.
Each of these businesses is able to take advantage of affordable rent in a fantastic downtown location, and resources such as videoconferencing, state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment and a multitude of other shared services and facilities.
During their time in this “business incubator”, companies are preparing to graduate and move out of the incubator to become “wealth creating” businesses that contribute to the growth of the Upstate New York economy.
For more information on the Syracuse Technology Garden, contact Paul Brooks, executive director, at (315) 474-0910 or visit www.GrowSyracuse.com. 
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