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Some Entrepreneurs Get Big Value From An Incubator

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 1,900 members in over 60 nations.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. This article originally ran on PEHub.

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How Does a Startup Incubator Really Help You?

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 1250 incubators today in the US alone.

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OCTANe LaunchPad Firms Raise More Than $25M

socalTECH

OCTANe , the Orange County-based organization helping to bolster the high tech industry and entrepreneurs, reported this morning that in the first half of 2012, companies participating in its startup accelerator have raised a total of $26.8M in funding.

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New Bootstrap Fund Pulls Itself Up in World of Health IT Deals

Xconomy

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. We started the incubator with the idea of helping people with ideas, and making some investments,” he said. “We He founded MaxIT Healthcare in 2001.

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Be Great Fest | Celebrating Los Angeles’ Startup Ecosystem

Tech Zulu Event

Their mission: to support a charity, savor the hot SoCal nightlife, and transform Los Angeles into the startup capital of the world. startups attracting over $847 million in investment funds in 2012 alone, the city’s diverse resources are often too separated. Although the Startup Genome Project named Los Angeles the No.

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Why The LA Dodgers Accelerator Is Combining Sports, Investment and Startups

socalTECH

Tucker Kain: In 2012, when the current ownership group bought the Dodgers, the group they pulled together was pretty heavily investment focused. With the background of our ownership group, and their interest in putting capital to use and our resources to work, we saw the opportunity to create strategic partnerships.

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