{"id":1191,"date":"2011-07-18T23:09:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T23:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.cos.ucf.edu\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2011-07-18T23:09:57","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T23:09:57","slug":"ucf-featured-in-the-orlando-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-featured-in-the-orlando-sentinel\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF featured in the Orlando Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A gifted soccer player in his youth and a successful coach as an adult, Tim Luby thought he had a winning idea with his patented practice tool, The Soccer Shot, but scoring in business was a skill yet to be mastered.<\/p>\n<p>Luby, 49, whose product teaches soccer players how to perfect a free kick, knew his fledgling enterprise faced a slew of problems that kill many startups.<\/p>\n<p>To improve his survival chances, Luby earned a spot in a business incubator on East Colonial Drive operated by the\u00a0<a id=\"OREDU0000150\" title=\"University of Central Florida\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/topic\/education\/colleges-universities\/university-of-central-florida-OREDU0000150.topic\">University of Central Florida<\/a>, which has eight area centers designed to nurture seedling enterprises. Two more UCF-sponsored incubators will open soon: one at Daytona Beach International Airport and another in south<a id=\"PLGEO100100405000000\" title=\"Lake County (Florida)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/topic\/us\/florida\/lake-county-%28florida%29-PLGEO100100405000000.topic\">Lake County<\/a>, both subsidized by tax dollars from local governments desperate for jobs in hard times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This has to be in your job-creating toolbox,&#8221; said Lake County Manager Darren Gray, who has pushed county commissioners to fund an incubator near\u00a0<a id=\"PLGEO100100405010000\" title=\"Clermont\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/topic\/us\/florida\/lake-county-%28florida%29\/clermont-PLGEO100100405010000.topic\">Clermont<\/a>. &#8220;You&#8217;re really investing in entrepreneurs who can&#8217;t do it on their own yet and may need a little jump-start now but could someday grow into something big.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lake has invested $170,000 since March 2009 in a UCF incubator in\u00a0<a id=\"PLGEO100100405040000\" title=\"Leesburg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/topic\/us\/florida\/lake-county-%28florida%29\/leesburg-PLGEO100100405040000.topic\">Leesburg<\/a>. It has made a similar pledge for the Clermont-area center.<\/p>\n<p>Incubators, which provide flexible leases, support services, networking and crucial business counseling to promising startups, are smart investments, said Bill McDermott, economic-development director in\u00a0<a id=\"PLGEO100100414000000\" title=\"Seminole County\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/topic\/us\/florida\/seminole-county-PLGEO100100414000000.topic\">Seminole County<\/a>, which has poured about $1.4 million into a UCF incubator in\u00a0<a id=\"PLGEO100100414090000\" title=\"Winter Springs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/topic\/us\/florida\/seminole-county\/winter-springs-PLGEO100100414090000.topic\">Winter Springs<\/a> during five years.<\/p>\n<p>UCF was featured in the article titeled &#8220;Communities grow jobs with UCF business incubators,&#8221; which can be read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/business\/os-business-incubators-20110626,0,638279.story\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gifted soccer player in his youth and a successful coach as an adult, Tim Luby thought he had a winning idea with his patented practice tool, The Soccer Shot, but scoring in business was a skill yet to be mastered. 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