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...incubator [dot]com ROBERT KENNY AND JONATHAN CHENG OFFER MONEY AND SMARTS...
...Incubasia is planning to nurture 15 or so new firms over the next year and a half. "We are looking for start-ups that take a global view of the markets," he says, "whatever sector it is." That may seem like an ambitious agenda, but in a typical week Cheng and Kenny vet roughly half a dozen business ideas. Clients are welcome to move into Incubasia's office and help themselves to logistical support (including Frisbees). The founders also provide expertise and up to $500,000 in financial assistance, plus one of the Internet's most treasured commodities--hype...
Kenny's firm, which he co-founded with Jonathan Cheng, is known as an incubator and is critical to the development of Internet businesses. Think of such companies as corporate foster parents whose experts nurture Netrepreneurs so they can make it on their own. Strong on tech but sloppy on marketing? Probe the incubator's contact book. Big on vision but clueless on execution? An incubator can find just the right manager...
Kenny, who studied management and mathematics at Cambridge University, knows Internet start-ups intimately. His Taiwanese-American wife is co-founder and CEO of DotLove.com whose website dispenses sex and love-life advice to lovelorn Chinese. Kenny co-founded his own company last September with Cheng, 29, a well-connected Hong Kong financier. Last December, Brett Rierson, a former vice president at A.T. Kearney Executive Search's global technology practice in London and Hong Kong, became the third partner. One start-up, a classified-advertising website, has graduated from Incubasia and four others are in the hatchery...
...newly elected board also includes co-President Jenny I. Shen '01, co-Vice President Pamela F. Peng '02, Educational/Political Chair Chhay Chhun '02, Cultural Chair Emmeline M. Chuang '02, co-Social Chair Roger Hong '03 and Interethnic Liaison Sean S. Cheng...