socalTECH
JUNE 6, 2011
There are lots of incubators here-- practically every school or municipality has some kind of incubator--but they don't have an accelerator. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so. The incubator isn't really as focused, and sometime might be more focused on low cost space.
socalTECH
JANUARY 3, 2011
I had been doing some angel investing, and incubating several projects. Not everyone had a spam filter, and lots of companies didn't have a spam filter in place until 2003, 2004, or 2005. We're as much as a police officer as much as a productivity service. It's to build a better product.
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. an incubator in Singapore, and we do a dozen or so investments a year. If you go back to 2005 and 2006 and look at a company which would have a $5M pre- then, it''s now $8 to $10M, all else equal. What''s your perspective on where fundraising is for startups here?
socalTECH
OCTOBER 26, 2016
Cody Simms: Obviously, I live here in LA, and I have been since 2005. Finally, the last thing, is what is the idea and product you are trying to build. As you mention, this is the third (or fourth, if you could the former Walt Disney Accelerator) Techstars accelerator in LA � why the decision to run another one here?
SoCal Delicious
NOVEMBER 8, 2012
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Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.
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