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TechStar Co-Founder @BFeld: Are We Experiencing A Startup Accelerator Bubble?

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In the past year, the number of startup accelerators and incubators across the US has grown faster than expansion league baseball. In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. Brad prefaced his comments by highlighting several meaningful distinctions between accelerators and incubators. "I Probably not.

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Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model

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How is this different than accelerator or incubator? David Carter: There is a lot of misunderstanding on what an incubator is, and what an accelerator is. When I was at Amplify, we had a lot of people wondering what an accelerator was, and how we differentiated from an incubator. I missed that in the beginning. READ MORE>>.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 The post Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups appeared first on TechZulu.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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What''s interesting, is that in 2011, there were seven large ad-tech firms which had all planned to go public and hired bankers. Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Incubator: Amplify LA.

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

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DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. To update Marc Andreessen’s widely publicized quote from 2011, “OpenStack Software Defined Networks (SDNs) are eating the world.” Note: I am an investor in Akanda via Rincon Venture Partners.).

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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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. Facebook, Google) to a large market opportunity then you had better have enough resources to compete.