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MySpace Designer's Next Project: The Cord Taco

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Mike Macadaan , the designer behind MySpace''s redesign in 2009 , has a new project: a Kickstarter effort to fund the design of a line of electronics accessories to organize your pile of electronic charging and accessory cords. Macadaan is currently Chief Creative Officer at Los Angeles technology studio and incubator Science, Inc.

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Reflections on 2016: Lawrence Ng, OnRamp Fund

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Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. Lawrence Ng: Our biggest news was growing our global incubator, OnRamp. You can see all of our holiday reflections here. We've learned a lot in the process. Lawrence C.

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

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Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Every consultant was pitching a process for reinventing your organization through BI. It has been a good run.

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

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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. Brad prefaced his comments by highlighting several meaningful distinctions between accelerators and incubators. "I Probably not.

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8 Ways An Incubator Can Accelerate Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

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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How Tuition.IO Is Helping To Tame Student Debt, One Employee At A Time

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Brendon McQueen: I graduated from Columbia in 2009, and was a first generation college graduate. I eventually ended up here in 2012, where the company came out of an incubator here called Launchpad LA. It makes sense for employers to help their employees pay that years ahead of that, with this program.

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Meet the Investors & Tech Leaders Judging at Startup Night SXSW 2018

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Thomas Flake, Founder of PTI Incubator & Founder of bcause. In addition to that, Tom works with the National Institute of Aerospace and proposed the creation and funding of a small business incubator (Peninsula Technology Incubator or PTI). the region’s venture development organization.