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

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Expansion League Teams In The Startup World. In the past year, the number of startup accelerators and incubators across the US has grown faster than expansion league baseball. In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

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Let me start out with my premise: “Data rooms are where fund-raising processes go to die.” I have to back up and give you more context. I’m going to start with the reasons and then explain how to use your best data to your advantage. I never thought of this until I became the Founder & CEO of my first startup company.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

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And a key point is that when it comes down to “negotiations&# you need to turn up your personal heat and dial back the middle man. Let me start with an example. She told me, “start with the price you want but the move in date he wants.&#. I said, “If I start with your position I have nowhere to go but down.