Xconomy
APRIL 16, 2018
million agreement to acquire General Assembly, a tech training and career development company that offers courses online and at 20 campuses worldwide. General Assembly (GA) launched in early 2011 with an incubator in New York City that was a cross between a co-working space and a startup university.
Tech Zulu Event
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Rock Prodigy is an intelligent iOS app and offers definitive, interactive, fun beginner guitar course of 150+ lessons/practice exercises with video tutorials through 49-day calendar that you can follow at your own pace. It also won the 2011 Appy Award in education and the 2011 About.com’s Readers Choice Award. How It Works.
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 14, 2014
By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. And then of course our friends at TechStars launched an accelerator in collaboration with our friends at Disney so now there was six. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. Quality endures.
socalTECH
OCTOBER 26, 2016
One could argue that in 2010, 2011, and 2012, that growth was in the video and entertainment area. There are so many incredible ups and downs in the course of building your own company from the ground up. However, you need to show progress over the course of when we have gotten to know you. Startups are hard.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2011
It’s interesting to me that two of the most talented tech leaders of our era – Bill Gross & Paul Graham – have both opted for a model of incubation to encourage young tech entrepreneurs to build disruptive businesses. In the end, of course, our productivity actually suffered.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
What''s interesting, is that in 2011, there were seven large ad-tech firms which had all planned to go public and hired bankers. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. an incubator in Singapore, and we do a dozen or so investments a year. But, most did not file their S-1''s. We don''t worry about that anymore.
Tech Zulu Event
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
It’s been a short, but action packed few months since we were introduced to The Immunity Project ‘s goal to “develop a free vaccine for HIV/AIDS” The organization’s aptly named Twitter handle is @hackHIV and they’re the second nonprofit organization ever to be backed by Bay Area Incubator, Y-Combinator (YC).
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