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

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In 1961, after 70-years, professional baseball created its first expansion teams – the Angels and Twins. In the past year, the number of startup accelerators and incubators across the US has grown faster than expansion league baseball. Since 1961, professional baseball has grown from 18-teams to 30. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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iChange Finds $500K More

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Co-founders of the site include Rich Rygg, who was VP of GeoCities, and GM of AOL's Digital City Los Angeles and Brad King, co-founder of Net Effect (acquired by Ask Jeeves), as well as psychologist Jay Wagener. iChange has previously raised funding from business mentoring firm and incubator Momentum Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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StartItUp Aims To Bring Startup Support To Small Businesses

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Los Angeles-based StartItUp said this week that it has launched a new, mobile platform which aims to bring "Silicon Valley" style incubation and entrepreneurial support to small businesses. Co-founder Brad King has been involved in such companies as Net Effect, iChange, and URB-E.

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Interview: Naval Ravikant, Co-Founder AngelList and Co-Maintainer Venture Hacks

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Late last year, there were more high-quality, seed-stage startups in New York than there was an Angel community to support them.”. We are not taking the incubator approach…we would invest on the same terms alongside the other investors and we would make sure to be a very, very small piece of the round and not to crowd out anybody.”.

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Financing a Start-Up

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In order to qualify, you have to have high net worth, a strong credit score and significant skin in the game. Angel Investors & Venture Capital. Groups like Tech Coast Angels and Octane hold pitch sessions to hear entrepreneurs sell their businesses. Looking forward to launching our new LA incubator soon!

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10 Recommendations For Aspiring New Venture Investors

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This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Join an existing angel investor group. Angel investment amounts per startup per investor usually range from $25K to $250K. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators.

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5 Key Points Of Focus For Every Scalable New Venture

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You can review all the specifics of this approach in the classic book by Nathan Furr and Paul Ahlstrom, appropriately titled “ Nail It then Scale It: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Creating and Managing Breakthrough Innovation ,” but I will net it out here. In my view, savvy “super angel” investors such as Mike Maples, Jr. ,