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How Does a Startup Incubator Really Help You?

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet success may not be any real indicator of help received, since once could argue that the really great entrepreneurs didn’t need any help from the incubator, and might have been even more successful without it. Expert mentoring and training. Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 12/17/2012.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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The feedback was always universal, “that was the most helpful marketing meeting I’ve every had.” He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. Natural mentors – a desire to help.

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Interview with Cody Simms, Techstars LA

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This morning, Techstars (www.techstars.org), the startup accelerator which has had great success in spreading its approach to helping to get startups to the next stage of their life�usually, funding�announced it has opened up its third accelerator in Los Angeles, Techstars LA. The focus is on helping the startup. billion combined.

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The Valuable Unsung Heroes of Startups

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Some of the most helpful people to me personally have been people not being directly compensated for doing so. He personally worked with Larry, Sergey and Eric Schimidt to help smooth the issues caused by bringing in a senior-level CEO above two super-talented founders who apparently didn’t want a boss. It’s a great read.

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How to Avoid Being Disrupted as a VC

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From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. I created an accelerator & mentor network (Launchpad LA). Greg truly is a prolific deal maker and is amongst the most helpful people to entrepreneurs in our ecosystem. He’s pushed us to be out in the community more. I tried to be at every event. I sat on panels. I keynoted.

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What Future for Accelerators?

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and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund.

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Some Entrepreneurs Get Big Value From An Incubator

Startup Professionals Musings

Y Combinator , led by Paul Graham, claimed success in 2012 with 172 companies over 7 years, which then had a combined value of $7.78 Expert mentoring and training. In addition to the formal mentoring, the peers you’ll be working alongside at startup incubators provide much more than emotional support. Peer support.

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