Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

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. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

Incubator

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Most accelerators provide small seed investment in the range of $25,000, as well as mentoring, workspace and professional services, in exchange for an equity stake in the company. Startup incubator seed funding. Yet, they often provide similar small seed investments, similar to those of accelerators.

Funding

Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

AstraZeneca got the drug when it bought ZS Pharma in late 2015 for $2.7 —The nonprofit Boston-based T1D Exchange and med tech startup incubator M2D2 have launched what’s being called the “ Diabetes Innovation Challenge ,” a competition to help find and fund new ideas—devices, drugs, and diagnostics—for diabetes research. .

San Diego

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

We have some announcements set for 2015. For accelerators to proliferate you need access to capital to fund them and then you need a huge community of people to fund the graduates. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. It’s where their passions are, too.

Venture Capital

InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

With top-ranked accelerators Lauchpad LA closing its doors and Y Combinator rebranding itself as a seed fund, it seems fair to ask the question, “Are Accelerators Dead?”. Good news: a quick review of TechCrunch’s March 2015 List of Top 20 U.S. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

Startup