Boxador » incubator http://www.boxador.com/blog We design and build software Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:09:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Boxaplex is open for business! http://www.boxador.com/blog/2010/05/boxaplex-is-open-for-business/ http://www.boxador.com/blog/2010/05/boxaplex-is-open-for-business/#comments Fri, 21 May 2010 22:20:53 +0000 Firas Bushnaq http://www.boxador.com/blog/?p=95 We are so excited, we just moved into our new offices, been remodeling, painting and dusting. Setster, Adigami, BrandBucket, Listio, Taskio, Favo and our newest baby Vendr have a new home. What used to be an Ice Cream factory at some point in time in the lovely city of West Hollywood is now housing our creative flavors. We are planning to have a gathering in a couple of weeks, join our group on meetup.com and RSVP to come and join the festivities.

BTW, we have lots of extra space so we decided to rent out some of our extra desks to creative technology professionals. For more info click here.

Check out these pics from our new pad and would love to see you at our functions so make sure you join our meetup group.

IMG_2491 IMG_2492 IMG_2494 IMG_2495 IMG_2497 IMG_2499 ]]> http://www.boxador.com/blog/2010/05/boxaplex-is-open-for-business/feed/ 0 Hello and Welcome to Boxador! http://www.boxador.com/blog/2008/08/hello-and-welcome-to-boxador/ http://www.boxador.com/blog/2008/08/hello-and-welcome-to-boxador/#comments Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:27:04 +0000 Firas Bushnaq http://boxador.com/blog/?p=7 Hello, my name is Firas Bushnaq, I am the founder of many technology startups in the past 20 years. Winware, eCompany, eEye Digital Security and Boxador are the last four companies I incubated and mentored with the help of many great partners and employees. Some I funded with my own capital and some with angel and VC funding. The experiences has been and continue to be great and enlightening. In the next few posts I will be highlighting some of my past experiences, the mistakes I made, the lessons I learned, the great advice I received and the most importantly the great wins I celebrated. I am hoping that you as an entrepreneur can learn from my experience and also explore how we at Boxador are positioned to help you navigate some of the complex obstacles of launching a startup, recruiting great talent, identifying market needs, developing a product, positioning your offerings and raising capital.

Boxador is the second incubator we started, our first incubator was a southern California company called eCompany, from which we started, many products such as, Avataro, ehook, and eEye Digital Security. At eCompany we raised about 7M in funding and for eEye we raised over 25M in funding from Insight venture Partners and Bessemer. eEye currently enjoys the success of surpassing 140M in sales and profitability with a vast list of clients from all five branches of the US department of defense to every major financial institution.

At Boxador, over the past 2 years, we have been involved in funding our own incubations and at the same time we started to invest our efforts in developing and mentoring new entrepreneurs in the startup stage. We consider our selves technology venture capitalists. We do in most cases help in all four stages of the startup cycle. Concept development, design, engineering and launch. Once we have the product up and running in a public beta form, it is time for the startup to graduate to a conventional VC for goto market funding to support sales and marketing. In the next few posts we will be reflecting on some of our own founders experience with market strategy and product development to VC funding.

Welcome to Boxador!!

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