Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

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. I believe their competitive advantage is their top on-site leadership, exclusivity, and connections to investors.

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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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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The doors have opened at a GE Healthcare-supported open-access lab for startups at AstraZeneca’s former global center for oncology research and development at Alderley Park, the largest bioscience research campus in the UK. Public-private partnership and science park. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

According to a well-researched Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years. My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. Join a startup incubator.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2013

Dirk Ahlborn: We are coming out of the nonprofit incubator, the Girvan Institute of Technology, which has been around since 2002, and is funded by NASA Ames. It is one of the older incubators in Los Angeles, even though not a lot of people know about it. How is this different from other crowdfunding sites? What is JumpStartFund?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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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). 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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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

According to a well-researched Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years. My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. Join a startup incubator.

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socalTECH

JUNE 16, 2009

Santa Monica-based SharesPost , a new startup out of Scott Painter's BrightHouse incubator, said Tuesday morning that the firm has launched on online platform which will match buyers and sellers of private equity. Among features of the site are private company research, escrow serviecs, and electronic signatures.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

If you research the backgrounds on some of the most successful entrepreneurs, you will find some, like Mark Cuban , espouse the “go for it” risk everything approach to give you the motivation to keep going, while others recommend a more measured approach. The challenge is when and how to make the switch to the entrepreneur lifestyle.

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Xconomy

JUNE 22, 2016

In Michigan, the Great Lakes Ag Technology Business Incubator is helping farmers turn their ag ideas into businesses. But Radicle’s plans more closely resemble the Research Triangle Park-based AgTech Accelerator, which shares an industry partner in Bayer. Last month, AgTech Accelerator unveiled $11.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

It was a finalist in Marshall ’s New Venture Seed Competition and it has earned a place within IncubatriX, a startup Incubator through USC’s Grief School of Entrepreneurship, which currently houses over a dozen USC startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2013

Which is why some senior tech leaders (that include Tony Pritzker , Howard Marks and Josh Berman ) banded together to bring the community online through a new site called Built In L.A. It is all part of the strategy to build the site slowly with the most impact. that has quietly soft launched this January. Built In L.A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

My first advice for new entrepreneurs is to pick a domain, such as online web sites and smart phone apps, that doesn’t have the sky-high up-front development costs. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity.

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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. Erik Rannala: The name is a reference, actually, to Thomas Edison and the research lab he created. Erik, thanks for the time. It's a very similar model to YCombinator and TechStars.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

based startup CoFoundersLab has addressed this issue by taking the guesswork out of matchmaking by introducing scientific methods, deep research and algorithms that have proven to lead to successful matches. Together they envisioned a Match.com type of site for entrepreneurs to find each other and make things happen.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

If you look at the site, it's comprised principally of individual bulletin boards for private companies. Can you talk about a bit about BrightHouse, and how this company came out of that incubation effort? Are you transacting sales through the site yet? Explain how your service works? Greg Brogger: We have 150 companies.

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socalTECH

JULY 9, 2010

Applied Minds is the stealthy research and development outfit backed by Kleiner Perkins and also based in Glendale. They were eager to get behind it, incubate it, so we were able to draw on their engineering base, go through how best to put this together, and it was a great partnership. And those sites have done a great job for that.

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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. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

By using SteelHouse, ecommerce sites can use live data to instantly respond to a customer’s wants and needs for stronger transaction values, increased conversion rates, and an overall better customer experience. Incubator: Amplify LA. Fun Fact: Their startup beach house costs a tiny fee of $20,000 per month! B2B: Docstoc.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

There are a million ways to either research your industries market size and you’re likely to have to do some basic estimations to figure out much of that is addressable to you. But not doing basic research makes no sense. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make? And how much do others providers make? Market Structure.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

There are lots of applicatoins for that, ranging from a straightforward utility, where you might need a number for Craigslist or for a dating site, to the times you might need to give out a phone number in context of shopping for a car, or to give a number to a salesperson or something that might involve marketing.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Jonathan Shokrian: A couple of months ago, they were doing research into people in the same space as ours. Jonathan Shokrian: My background is in real estate and finance, but I've also been very focused on photography, and did a bunch of photography in college.Most of the photography you see on the site are photos I took.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 24, 2014

The conversation’s moved well past the point of black or white acceptance into grayer areas – specifically from “would you use it” questions to its viability to yield lasting, meaningful connections, (though according to the data by Pew Research , long-term relationships and marriage are also on the rise).

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Zeroblock , the highly successful mobile and web app was recently acquired by the world’s most popular Bitcoin site and online wallet, Blockchain.info. Adam Draper – Of Boost VC, an SF Incubator/Accelerator. He then dove into a keynote Q&A with Dan Held , developer of recently acquired Zeroblock LLC.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Your clients pay you to design and build web sites and app. Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Entrepreneurism / Monetization Customers, research, startups. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization Customer, marketing, research. . Make Millions: Re-Invent Global Sites for Local Markets.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

While entertainment moguls often rely on the taste, advice and social connections of the citys top brokers, tech executives frequently do their own research online before they arrive in town, and know what they want before they look. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. clients, brokers say.

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