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Should Startups Incubate, Accelerate, Cohabitate or Stay In Mom’s Basement?

InfoChachkie

The good news for entrepreneurs is that there have never been more office space options for early stage companies. Significant confusion exists when distinguishing between Accelerators and Incubators. A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal. Having people being captive within some investor’s…sphere.

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Techstars LA Draws International Companies For 2021 Class

socalTECH

Companies this year in the program come from as far as Canada, India, and Ukraine.

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Isaac Garcia, CEO and Founder of Sales Insider

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For our interview this morning, we caught up with Isaac Garcia , a serial entrepreneur who previously founded and sold his last company, Central Desktop, and now is working on a new startup, Sales Insider. I was kind of incubating it before, but we landed our first client and started getting revenue in August of last year.

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

Both Sides of the Table

We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. If your investor worked inside of a SaaS company for years and disagrees with me then listen to them. And importantly we’ve had revenue.

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Amplify LA's Paul Bricault On Startup Accelerator Lessons, Five Years Later

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Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area ďż˝ one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

Tech Zulu Event

Atlas Powered has raised $700k from Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, LaunchpadLA, and Clark Landry. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products. . · YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 I think the model works well,” said McCann.

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

Tech Zulu Event

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses. Venue Sponsor.