Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

This place is often called an incubator or accelerator, or just a group of peers. One of the most successful incubators is Y Combinator in Silicon Valley. Maybe you are more comfortable going slow, with limited resources, or aiming high and giving up equity. An occasional discussion with a mentor won’t do it.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

In recent months, a dozen accelerators and incubators have emerged in the Southern California area, looking to help take the new generation of technology startups to funding and beyond. However, with the proliferation of incubators, the difficulty in figuring out. Part II: The In-house Incubators. Both incubates its own.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Here at TechCo, we’ve done plenty of lists rounding up the most impressive incubators, accelerators, and coworking spaces in plenty of major cities and across a variety of sectors, from the best healthcare accelerators to a collection of the top women-only coworking spaces. Social Impact Incubator. The goal: Dairy innovation.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Significant confusion exists when distinguishing between Accelerators and Incubators. According to Brad, "There is a fundamental difference between an incubator and an accelerator… an incubator has an economic model that is based around having people be tenants. Having people being captive within some investor’s…sphere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

An underutilized, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your alma mater, including any local university. Here is a short list of the areas where you should be able to find help, whether you are a student or an independent entrepreneur: Exploring hot ideas. Early-stage funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2023

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined a long time ago from a funding perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2016

A question I often get as an adviser is whether or not to join a business incubator or accelerator as a way to move forward faster and smarter and increase the odds of business success. Here are some of the key parameters that will help you decide where you fit in this spectrum: Your commitment to the entrepreneur lifestyle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Business.com, as well as its companion sites, Business News Daily and BuyerZone help connect professionals with business servies. domain and business was acquired by Purch back in 2016, having had a long history starting in 1999 in Santa Monica, when then startup incubator eCompanies paid $7.5M Savings.com is an online coupon site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Get help with grant funding and incubator resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined before from a funding perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2010

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). The goal of most business incubators today is to strengthen the local economy, and commercialize new technologies. However, many research and technology parks also house incubation programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Get help with grant funding and incubator resources.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc? It's not entirely exclusive, however.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. Join a startup incubator.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2014

A new, cross-border startup accelerator-- HardTech Labs --said yesterday that it has launched a new, startup accelerator aimed at helping hardware companies take their companies to full production. hardtech labs cross border hardware accelerator incubator acceleration startup manufacturing tijuana mexico diego sandiego' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

In an effort to bolster startups and entrepreneurs in the San Fernando, East Ventura and Santa Clarita Valleys, a group has just started a new Center for Entrepreneurship and Growth , which will provide training, coaching, consulting, and other resources for local entrepreneurs. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

The LIHEAP money is critical for the over 12 million Americans who have recently lost their job, the consortium argues and could also help finance the Department of Energy’s Weatherization program. There’s $25 billion in money set aside for public transit and $12.5 billion set aside for workforce retraining and education.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2013

SharesPost , the private company marketplace headed by Greg Brogger, which had been incubated and started in Santa Monica via Brighthouse, the startup incubator run by Brogger and Scott Painter, is in a joint venture with NASDA OMX , the two said this morning. Brogger was at CarsDirect with Scott Painter, who heads up TrueCar.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. Join a startup incubator.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

Santa Monica-based Tuition.IO (tuition.io) has s created a way for companies to both help their employees tackle that mound of student debt, as well as attract better and more loyal employees. It makes sense for employers to help their employees pay that years ahead of that, with this program. It's been amazing. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

Of course, it helps to pick a business model that minimizes these costs, such as e-commerce to minimize initial staff and facilities, or professional services, where you are the initial product. Assess your resource potential before you start. Build your plan around resources you know.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In fact, I think the evidence is clear that many entrepreneurs started their journey while still in college, and capitalized on all the resources there, before moving on: Extend your technology focus with business basics. Every school recognizes the power of “hands-on” work to help you develop your own ideas into a business.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

We invest time and money into helping them develop their ideas, and help develop those companies and the entrepreneurs as leaders. We work with them over a short period of four months, to help them grow their companies and accelerate their business. We invest financially, with our time, hands-on-mentorship, and resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

A little known, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your local university. These resources are definitely are not limited to students, since every university wants and needs the real world exposure and experience of entrepreneurs who already have credibility in the marketplace.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2016

Purch said the deal would help it expand into the SMB market. domain name sold to startup incubator eCompanies, transformed into a $345M sale to R.H. domain name sold to startup incubator eCompanies, transformed into a $345M sale to R.H. Business.com was headed by Tony Uphoff. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

A while back I found a great book, “ America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age ,” put together by a group of fifty current leaders from across American life, that points out well some of the tools that can help all of us learn how to learn in this rapidly changing world of new opportunities.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

In the past year, the number of startup accelerators and incubators across the US has grown faster than expansion league baseball. ” I recently discussed the explosion of seed accelerators and incubators with Brad Feld, who, as the Co-Founder of acclaimed startup accelerator TechStars , is uniquely qualified to opine upon the subject.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

They helped create over 5 million new businesses in 2022, a forty percent increase over the previous year. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

For the rest of us, the following suggestions will help you survive the valley of death: Accumulate some resources before you start. If your offering is exciting enough, you may get millions in small amounts from other people on the Internet to help you fly high over the valley of death. Join a startup incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined before from a funding perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined some time ago from a funding perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2023

Research shows that such insights are actually the result of hard prior work on the problem, usually followed by time to incubate in the subconscious mind as we connect threads, before the ideas pop out as new innovations. Incentives can help, but often they do more harm than good, as people learn to game the system. Breed myth.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. In 1998, Hinshaw sold another health IT consulting firm, Resources in Health Care Innovations, to Daou Systems, a San Diego-based provider of health IT services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost. The cost of social media done well is low.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

For Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab and brains behind the excursion, the unveiling was simply the latest in a string of demonstrations for new technologies commercialized by his nearly three-decade old startup company incubator. However, it may be the most significant. “That’s where hydrogen comes into play.”

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