The Cape IT Initiative (CITI) UUNet Bandwidth Barn, an office complex offering IT start-ups shared facilities, has fostered collaboration between three start-ups in the Barn, generating new business for them.
Donna McCallum, director and co-founder of interactive marketing consultancy ikineo, urgently needed an SMS solution to implement a mobile communication strategy for a client. "I just ran down the corridor to BulkSMS who I knew supplied SMS services and technology," says McCallum.
Pieter Streicher, MD of BulkSMS, took on the project to manage the development of a solution to read SMSs from a GSM modem and project them onto a screen. The work was outsourced to Edward van Kuik`s Nitric Industries, a software and Web development company located a few doors further down the corridor. The result was a successful implementation of the solution by ikineo.
CITI reports that this small business clustering activity is at the heart of the Bandwidth Barn`s aims. The Bandwidth Barn incubates new IT companies through affordable office rentals, shared office facilities and reduced Internet connectivity costs. It also holds networking events for its tenants - fondly referred to as "Incubytes".
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