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TechStar Co-Founder @BFeld: Are We Experiencing A Startup Accelerator Bubble?

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In 1961, after 70-years, professional baseball created its first expansion teams – the Angels and Twins. In the past year, the number of startup accelerators and incubators across the US has grown faster than expansion league baseball. In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators.

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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. It's little known, but we were going to sign the docs on a Series A two days after we got the LOI for TeleNav.

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Stained Glass Labs Patners With Exitround, Unveils App Directory for Google Glass

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Apart from the app directory, SGL has also created a Press Release publishing tool for developers to upload their docs during the submission process easily, making it even better for SGL to send it to its network of industry connection.

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