This document discusses the history and purpose of entrepreneur incubators. It describes how early incubators primarily offered office space but now provide more support like advice, counseling, networking opportunities, and virtual resources. The document advocates for incubators to be more proactively promoted in local news to improve their success. It also proposes some specific resources and services that incubators could offer, such as assistance with business ideas, marketing, intellectual property protection, and sales. The goal is for incubators to help entrepreneurs develop and launch successful businesses.

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Entrepreneur Incubator
Today’s Business Incubators have a primary purpose of renting office space, now I
know that many offer much more, but the difference in offering and making available is
the cost. And Entrepreneurs need advice and counsel more than they need a generic
course on being a Entrepreneur. The effort in Florida has networked many Incubators
and added a Virtual Entrepreneur Incubator, yet the local news could pay more attention
and dramatically improve the success of these incubators. A Entrepreneur Incubator
needs to be promoted. Like the movie “Field of Dreams” build it and they will come... is
true only if people know about it...
How about a Librarian greeter that says come on in kid if you have a idea and we will
discuss it with you and give you instant feedback, this can be done over the Internet.
The issue of Intellectual Property is important. Now add some Marketing and Sales
Review from the Internet and in few days, the idea will have some depth for the
Entrepreneur to decide if further effort is warranted. But before we get to this stage, the
Entrepreneur has to have been selected from a larger constant flowing number of
entries.
Setup a room with some PC’s and Video Editing Booth, connect to the Internet, and
expect our Entrepreneur’s to seek the Incubator out for a helping hand to build their
dream business.
The Maui Research & Technology Center was thus, we know, we lived and worked
there from 92-96, the folks that worked for the State of Hawaii were just like you and
me, they wanted in the worst way to make the MRTC a success. All were supportive,
but without any working capital even for themselves it was just cheap rent. There was
an advantage however, the MRTC was located next door to one of the most incredible
SuperComputers on the Planet, yep, next door there on Maui.
I don’t really understand what you do with a SuperComputer other than mathematical
analysis of the stars from the dishes on top of Haleakala the hugh dormant volcano.
The SuperComputer was connected to T3’s and that gave the MRTC Broadband from
the start and we had the ability to communicate via the internet to DiagSoft, Inc. so we
were doing business really simple - we were connected. I created ETSC in the most
creative place, Maui.
During this time Chris King my brother in law introduced me to Richard Mann and we
started Big Kahuna Productions. Richard knew Hollywood, and the art of video
production, and I wanted to do Interactive Videos similar to the IBM SNA interactive
LaserDisk Project that I worked on with with Saroj Kar in Sunnyvale at the beginning of
the LaserDisk (1979), a master cost over $50Kea. and was a throw away if wrong.

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Document Storage and Retrieval and Advanced Office Automation Workstations were
my skill set.
I created CARMS Computer Assisted Records Management System using a Tandem
NonStop for Natural Language Query Retrieval of Documents stored on the Microform
Data Systems UltraStrip a strip of microfilm with a 300X reduction image size, also
spec’d a Microdata Reality System for the low end. We could retrieve any page in a
million pages in less than ten seconds. This was important for Power Plants that had
millions of pages of D drawings, to standard letter forms, since we microfilmed
documents of almost any size, we then microfilmed the microfilm taking the image from
the 35mm frame and microfilming that frame again another 10X which would result in
300X-600X reduction and full blowback. That is right, we microfilmed the microfilm in a
unit made by Microform Data Systems.
Today we would use a good scanner and the capture time would be small increments
compared to the manual microfilm process. And the Auto Indexing using OCR would
reduce the keying of Indexes like we did with the Microform systems. CARMS was my
attempt to move Microform Data Systems into a more hybrid Digital and Microfilm
database and evolve Microform Data from Micrographics into the Digital Age. Arnold
Silverman replaced my mentor Dean Mack the formed CEO.
CARMS is a frame/page/sector indexed sector of digital content or film content.
The next generation of CARMS is for today’s Mass Storage Facility that could fit into
your briefcase, the INDEX is based on Metatags, the more refinement of the Keys and
the Correlation of Stuff (rDBMS), Neural Network, etc. will improve the reduction of the
number of hits.
I often today think about the possibilities of CARMS which is meant to create a
Paperless Office...
SQL is todays DBMS architecture, and is complicated and difficult for non programmers
to use at the capability level that we had with the MSDOS CONDOR rDBMS in 1982.
The DomusRoom needs a simple DBMS, perhaps Bento?
The DomusRoom will store locally.
We need to train out of the box thinking for Entrepreneurs, and provide them the
workspace to grow their ideas, and help them from the Business Management and
Sales standpoint until the idea is ready to launch from their own successful business.
Incubators grow little chickens into big factories.
gkraft

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Entrepreneur Incubators Work Plan
What does a idea need? Sales.
How do you develop an idea? Entrepreneur Incubators.
Bricks and Mortar? Yes.
Internet Cloud? Yes.
so a person anywhere could gain access to the educational process necessary to
create and idea, and sell an idea? right.
from anyplace? Yes.
How do you sell? Don’t confuse booking from shipping.
How do you protect the intellectual property rights of the idea? AiDigital Library.
How do individuals use the Incubator? over the internet using their DomusRoom.
What is most needed? unfettered access to all internet content filtered by the
individuals AiEngine INDEX DNAid.
People are smart, they need doorways to opportunity, the short and long
term is already changed by the change in society caused by the ability to
interact.
What do I want? to help.

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Microform Data - Artelonics - GKE - Handle Tech -- addendum to GK Story.
I noticed an ad in the WSJ for a National Sales Manager for a Office Automation
Company in Silicon Valley, the ad was “blind” and I didn’t expect to get a response, but it
turned out the company was Artel, Inc. in Palo Alto and was funded by Shell Canada. I
got the job over a large number of candidates and Artel was developing the first Intel
8086 Office Automation Workstation with a 8’ floppy disk. Bob Stillman was developing
the Pascal OS and Word Processing, Graphics, software. The project was behind
schedule and as an alternative, I sought out CPM86 from Digital Research, and Basic86
from Microsoft. With one of the very first CPM86 installations, we suddenly found many
software companies wanting to port to our platform. The Artel OA Workstation was
hugh, had a full page screen with a secondary bitmap graphics video system that
allowed the graphics to overlay over the text screen underneath.
I did the demo to about 25 IBM’ers at the first Comdex Show, IBM wanted to know what
was Shell doing in the computer business. The booth was stunning, all white, a
awesome large island with a few demo stations, we got the 8” harddrive running at the
first night of the show, and that was the night I first heard the yell across Comdex, “The
Proto Works!”
I made a Artelonics (Artel name had to be changed due to a similar other company and
became Artelonics) workstation available to Don Harris and a few days later he called
and asked what is C:> ? The prompt, the rest of the screen was blank with CPM86.
I met Condor Computer the rDBMS MSDOS company from Ann Arbor, near the end of
Artelonics (I knew from someone in Shell that they were getting out of OA), and Condor
filled my trunk with boxes of Condor Software and told me to call when I had sold them,
and GKE Software was born out the the trunk of my car. During the next two years,
even though I as a single parent, I closed BusinessLand, MicroAge, and Don and I did
MicroD.
Don worked for himself much of the time, and often he would bring in a new employee
with out the authority and would set them down at GKE, I would walk by and say hi who
are you? Then Donald decided that he would go to LA if I would rent a Apt and find
more LA customers, on my first visit to LA, I go to the Apt, and Don has a Floppy Disk
store running out of the Apt and two other guys living there? There was a sign on the
wall that said “The Sandusky Group”. I asked what is this? He said that it was “our
company”... I closed the Apt. Over the years of working with Don, he has either quit or
been fired at least 5 times. While at DiagSoft he started a Quality Company ICQ and
guy I introduced him to, and with Andy Marken and Mel Brodie at the same time that I
was paying him...
GKE was selling more Condor than Condor, and we added Knowledgeman and Pearl,
plus SuperCalc, and I talked Skip Barkis into developing Transparent Data Systems
version of his Business Graphics package that could take sources from SuperCalc,
Condor, DBase II, and produce a Gantt Chart. In the end, I talked Condor into acquiring

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TDS along with GKE along with their deal already in process for StarSoft Accounting,
but GKE lost out in the end.
I got a call from Lake Tahoe from an old friend asking me if I would like to go boating on
Lake Tahoe? I said of course, he said, how would you like to live and work here for
Handle Technologies in Tahoe City? I as there in a blink. A UNIX Office Automation
Suite from Handle had a OEM agreement with AT&T. Imagine several UNIX System V
AT&T 3B2’s, 3B5’s, Convergent Tech, and a Dec VAX in Tahoe City... Programmers
had flex hours. I became good friends with the CEO and did some consulting
afterwards.