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Reflections on 2018: Alon Goren, 805 Startups and Crypto Invest Summit

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Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. But my thing has always been supporting startups and entrepreneurs at an early stage. What was the biggest news for your company in 2018?

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Boost Your New Venture By Teaming With 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. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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

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Fortunately, for those headed to SXSW, Startup Night SXSW 2018 , presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo, will be filled with investors from a multitude of industries who are looking to discover and fund startups building the latest solutions and tech innovations. Thomas Flake, Founder of PTI Incubator & Founder of bcause.

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Reflections On 2017: Michael Jones, Science Inc.

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So this fall, we launched Science Blockchain, a new incubator that partners with leading entrepreneurs to build a portfolio of blockchain and cryptocurrency related businesses. So far, we have launched a handful of blockchain companies and are looking forward to more partnerships in 2018. He is also a long-time entrepreneur.

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation. Hardworkers : a professional network for blue-collar workers. Veam : a social network built around AirDrop.

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Breaking Down Barriers to Entrepreneurship Starts with Messaging

Tech.Co

At Techstars Startup Week Phoenix 2018 powered by Chase for Business , leaders from Phoenix-based organizations discussed how they help break down barriers to entry for entrepreneurs. Hardimon said that if companies, incubators, or organizations aren’t doing any social modeling, then it’s going to be hard to attract those people.

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Interview with Kos Galatsis, Carbonics

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Right now, we're used to 3G and 4G on our smartphones; the next step is 5G, which means we will be able to transmit wireless, 4K resolution video over our telephone networks and through to our smartphones. So this would have been a lot more difficult if those labs weren't available to you as a company in the incubator?

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