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). Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as shared facilities and space.

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2015

West Hollywood-based Orbitera , a developer of a cloud-based software product to help companies the sales of cloud-based software and services, including managing leads, trial subscriptions, billing, and operations, has raised $2M in a seed funding round. The company disclosed the funding Thursday. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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). Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers. Startup incubator seed funding. Corporate seed funds for startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It’s a three-month program providing its selected startups with $21,000 in seed funding, plus the typical incubator benefits like shared office space, legal assistance, infrastructure and hosting, and mentorship from a network of advisors.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. How frequently they’re using the product? Sales Startup Lessons'

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. This popular funding source, where anyone can participate, per the JOBS Act in the US, is exemplified by online sites like Kickstarter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. This popular funding source, where anyone can participate, per the JOBS Act in the US, is exemplified by online sites like Kickstarter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. According to the National Business Incubator Association (NBIA) , there are currently over 1,200 members in 30 nations. Initial funding.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

million in seed funding to begin building a manufacturing facility and expand its presence in Los Angeles as the city continues to grow as a hub for robotics and automation. . Elementary Robotics has raised $3.6

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Last month, the product launched with $1.2 million in funding from Rebecca Minkoff and other unnamed investors. Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. Thus the more precise term these days for early startups is “seed stage.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. Thus the more precise term these days for early startups is “seed stage.”

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � 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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. We're providing seed funding, office space, and put them through a three month, structured program. Erik, thanks for the time. It's a very similar model to YCombinator and TechStars.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

After leaving Jet Cooper, Peek decided to take his passion for product and do his own thing, starting Rocketr. Almost, two years since the inception, he has built up a team and product making a name for himself as one of the city’s most promising entrepreneurs. I met the team briefly while on the facility tour with Nasser.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. This popular funding source, where anyone can participate, per the JOBS Act in the US, is exemplified by online sites like Kickstarter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. This newest source of funding, where anyone can participate, per the JOBS Act in the US, is exemplified by online sites like Kickstarter.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The startup--which is part of MuckerLab--landed a seed funding round last week, so we thought we''d catch up with founder and CEO Farbod Shoraka to dig deeper into the company''s goals and service. From there, we actually joined the Muckerlab incubator, and essentially have been growing florists on the supply side.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. This newest source of funding, where anyone can participate, per the JOBS Act in the US, is exemplified by online sites like Kickstarter.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Companies were getting funded more easily and many more companies were actually being created.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

ABC has even created an incubator-style program in which startup non-profits compete for $100,000 in seed funding. Rather, the organization provides ongoing support of its "portfolio," including strategic planning, recruitment of Board members and public relations expertise.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

It also allows us to do more late stage seed funding, and early A round, and enables us to set deal terms, board seats, and get a lot more sureness around the amount of money and the check we are able to write. if it's a yes, we move forward with all that normal VC stuff, the size of market, products and services, and so on.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Still with Jet Cooper, Peek decided to take his passion for product and do his own thing, starting Rocketr. Almost, two years since the inception, he has built up a team and product making a name for himself as one of the city’s most promising entrepreneurs. I met the team briefly while on the facility tour with Nasser.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2014

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. According to the National Business Incubator Association (NBIA), there are currently over 1,900 members in over 60 nations. Peer support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2013

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. According to the National Business Incubator Association (NBIA) , there are currently over 1250 incubators today in the US alone.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Remember the whole controversy over Facebook’s Beacon product where a guy bought an engagement ring for his wife and it was published to a stream and ruined the surprise ? So my gut says this will be a youth-oriented product. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. Wildfire Interactive.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

StemCells of Newark, CA, said this week it would wind down operations after a Phase 2 trial of its lead product, a spinal cord injury therapy, didn’t do enough to help patients. million in seed funding from RA Capital Management and others to help sell a liquid formula for infants to help prevent the onset of peanut allergies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Sources should include local startup incubators, blog owners, and government support organizations, such as SCORE. Traditionally, business software products have been specialized and focused toward a given task, but I see a trend these days to highly functional “all-in-one” business tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Products need not be tied to a given company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Contrary to some press reporting, the boom in startups, the creation of accelerators and seed funds as well as the deserved popularity of AngelList do not signal doom for our industry. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

You need to say “no” faster to things you know you’re not going to fund based on fit, focus, geography, quality of concept, conflicts with portfolio. ” And then there are incubators and accelerators. They want you to fund, fund, fund. They all want you to come meet companies.

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. Incubation 3. Venture Capital Funding 7. technology as the foundation of their voice-recognition personal assistant product. Relaxing 2.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2019

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Products need not be tied to a given company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2017

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham of Y Combinator, and Dave McClure of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Products need not be tied to a given company. Attract and share specialized talent and skills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham of Y Combinator, and Dave McClure of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Products need not be tied to a given company. Attract and share specialized talent and skills.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

trillion out of our homes and spent 2/3rds of it on flat screen TVs, trips to Hawaii, time shares, Apple products and everything else we couldn’t afford. Deflation is crippling because as consumers expect products to be cheaper tomorrow they hold off purchasing every month to see what happens leading to a negative spiraling economy.

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