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Accelerate Your Startup With Help From An Incubator

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy.

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COI Pharmaceuticals Gets $576M Exit

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San Diego-based COI Pharmaceuticals , the life sciences incubator and support entity created by Avalon Ventures to support its portfolio companies, says that one of its companies, Calporta Therapeutics , has been acquired by Merck. Calporta Therapeutics was launched out of COI Pharmaceuticals in 2015. READ MORE>>.

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Realistic Strategies For Funding Product Development

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. In this context, there are at least six stages often included in the scope of R&D to narrow your focus: Search for new technologies. Technology pilots.

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Wearable World Inc. Announces Collaboration to Create IoT and Wearables Solutions for Cities

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The IoT for Cities Summit and Challenge , scheduled for March 10-11, 2015 , in San Francisco will welcome government officials, industry representatives, entrepreneurs, investors and residents to conduct a large-scale listening and idea sharing session. Wearable World, Inc. ,

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7 Seed-Stage Funding Sources To Finance Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers. Startup incubator seed funding. Many municipalities offer these to facilitate local new business development.

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Interview With Paul Myer, Veracity: Why The Industrial Internet Needs Security

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Department of Energy to help develop tools to secure the power grid. That's what we call OT, or Operational Technology. OT networks had a parallel development track with IT systems, but had primarily been focused on industrial applications. We've now exited the incubator and actually have an office at Microsemi.

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Interview with Jason Reid, Giftagram

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We were incubated and launched in Canada in 2014, and at the end of 2015, we launched in the U.S. Los Angeles was interesting, in particular, because of the whole technology scene and Silicon Beach happening here. We'll also be expanding our team, and investing more in technology. Can you talk about your LA office?

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