The Program
All about the Couri Hatchery - EEE's student incubator

Objectives | Residency | General Information | Rules

Objectives
The Couri Hatchery is a student-centered business incubator. An incubator is a low cost, supportive environment that helps new start-ups get establishment and develop to the point that they can stand on their own. Our goal is to promote, stimulate, and support business development within the entrepreneurial student environment here at Syracuse University. Business creation at the Couri Hatchery will ultimately lead to the establishment of high-growth companies in New York and nationally. Positive business impacts can only do more to stimulate economic development in the Central New York region and beyond.

The focus of the Couri Hatchery is innovative, emerging student ventures. It provides a broad scope of services including cost-effective space and support, prototype production facilities, product realization and development services, and business consultation.

The Couri Hatchery will stimulate interaction between student entrepreneurs and other Syracuse University students, faculty, administrators, and staff. It will also offer unique research and development collaborations with local entrepreneurs, capitalizing on their facilities, business management expertise, and technologies to leverage our student entrepreneurial success.

The time spent as part of the Couri Hatchery will provide real-world experience for our student entrepreneurs in business innovation and creation, research and development.

The Incubation Residency
The length of student business involvement with the Couri Hatchery is tied to progression in growning the venture. Student ventures sign a six-month agreement, which is renewable based upon an evaluation of progress and the professionalism of the company's officers in the shared incubator space. A maximum residency of two years is generally applied.

General Information

• Location: The Hatchery is located in The Whitman School of Management's Couri Entrepreneurial Complex. Visit the contact page for location and contact information.
• Services: The Couri Hatchery offers office space, business consulting, technical consulting, master agreements, lab access, administrative assistance, reception, conference/meeting rooms, break rooms, mailroom, Internet connections, phone, and fax & copy.
• Management: The Michael J. Falcone Center of Entrepreneurship at the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, manages the Couri Hatchery.

Rules
The following rules apply if you are accepted into the Couri Hatchery. You will be required to sign a paper copy of the rules as part of your residency agreement. Administration may terminate the residency if these rules are not followed.

• I agree to be held liable for the Couri Hatchery if I leave it unlocked.
• I agree to use the office space on a daily basis.
• I agree to write a document each month summarizing that month's accomplishments and the goals for the upcoming month.
• I agree to utilize my incubator space for a minimum of 15 hours per week at rist of forfeiture of the space to another tenant.
• I agree to take the necessary legal steps to start my business, including, but not limited to, obtaining licenses and permits, registering my business, and paying taxes.
• I agree to not allow visitors in the incubator outside of regular business hours.
• I agree to not hold Syracuse University, the Whitman School of Management, the Program in Entrepreneurship & Emerging Enterprises, The Falcone Center, or The Couri Hatchery liable for loss of software or data on a personal or university computer.
• I agree to sign up for time in the conference area, and to yield the area to others who have signed up for time if I have not.
• I agree that the Couri Hatchery is to be used only for business purposes and not for personal use.
• I agree not to adust the thermostat without the permission of the Couri Hatchery administration.
• I agree if I come into the Hatchery outside of business hours, I will sign the after hours list.
• I agree to regulate the number of faxes I send per month, and I will contact the Couri Hatchery director if I need to send an international fax.
• I agree to not remove books from the Couri Hatchery library.
• I agree that the white board in the conference area will be used in a professional manner at all times, and erased promptly after my business uses it.
• I agree to act professionally at all times.
• I agree to not bringing food into the public business areas of the Couri Hatchery. Light food is allowed in the private business areas, provided it does not interfere with the business operations of adjoining businesses or the Falcone Center.