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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

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he's been spinning out of his incubator. What's the idea behind the incubator? I've been a serial entrepreneur for about 20-odd years, and I didn't want to sit at a big company. I decided to become a parallel entrepreneur, and started a whole series of companies in big data. Now, we're turning into a formal incubator.

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The Trade Desk Prices IPO, To Hit NASDAQ Today

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Ventura-based The Trade Desk , which operates an online advertising exchange, priced its IPO late Tuesday evening, saying that it will sell 4,666,677 shares of its Class A common stock at $18.00 Green is a serial entrepreneur, having sold his last firm, AdECN, to Microsoft. and $18.00 and $16.00 per share on August 31st.

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Accelerator To Exit In 14 Months, With Eli Portnoy of ThinkNear

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For ThinkNear , it looks like the whole process paid off in less than two years, after the Los Angeles company went from the TechStars accelerator just last June, to a healthy acquisition by TeleNav earlier this month for $22.5M. Congrats on the acquisition! How did the acquisition come about? It was really great.

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Ten Ways for an Entrepreneur to Expand His Reach

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As an entrepreneur, you always need to be on the lookout for ways to expand your current business, and always on the lookout for your next big thing. They know you and your brand, so this should minimize your customer acquisition cost for the new product. Tags: entrepreneur startup new opportunities business. Marty Zwilling.

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9+ Studio Giving $110K in Funding For Game Developers To Shift To Consumer, Big Data & Wearable Computing Startups

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Silicon Valley’s 9+, an accelerator founded by serial entrepreneur and company builder Peter Relan is investing $110,000 into game developers to quit developing games and shift to consumer, mobile, Big Data and wearable apps. 110,000 to quit developing games for wearable apps. 2 million raised. Growth hackers.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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This is class four for Launchpad LA. Atlas Powered has raised $700k from Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, LaunchpadLA, and Clark Landry. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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Lessons Learned From The Accelerator Trenches: MuckerLab's Erik Rannala

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Although we will do roughly one class a year, that''s 10 or so companies under the accelerator, seed stage model -- but we don''t really limit to three months in-and-out. A prototype is one, but it could also be customer acquisition testing they''ve done. What''s your one piece of advice for entrepreneurs? That''s the minimum.

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