History

Anthony, Allan & Quinn Inc. (AAQ) was founded in 1993 by current CEO Dan "Anthony" Schmitt and two partners. AAQ successfully launched eight companies over ten years, three of which grew fast enough to qualify for the Inc. 500 list of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in America. In 2003, one of these companies, Advanced Business Fulfillment (ranked #23 nationally in the Inc. 500 list), was sold to publicly-traded WebMD for $260 million.

AAQ grew from a single automotive marketing firm to a diversified holding company with combined revenues of over $140 million in 2003. The common focus of all the companies has been providing core services to enable businesses to outsource non-critical functions while allowing their leadership to focus on competencies critical to building and sustaining competitive advantage.

AAQ recognized it could leverage its expertise in quickly building companies to provide a scalable model to enable new start-up companies to rapidly go to market or enable existing companies to rapidly launch new products. Over the following three years, the team learned a lot of lessons and overcame several challenges related to launching successful companies. We acutely learned how to institutionalize the process of launching and building a successful company. This concept of creating an “assembly line of thought” was the genesis behind what is known today as “The Incubation Factory,” (TIF), which has established itself as the premier go-to-market incubator.

Since 2006 we have “perfected” our offering, created dozens of portfolio companies and revised our model to best support the technology, the Company, the Inventor, and the Technology Transfer institutions interests and are actively duplicating this model to worldwide.

In 2009, The Incubation Factory launched a division, which focuses on mergers & acquisitions and has begun an aggressive campaign to acquire existing companies.