Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

As opposed to a startup incubator, which typically deals with startups barely hatched, an accelerator focuses on a later stage startup, with an existing product and proven business model, looking for rapid growth. It suggests the minimum features to allow the product to be deployed and get feedback, and no more. Startup accelerator.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. Incubator: Amplify LA. Fun Fact: Their latest investment was into LA-based Daqri – the augmented reality platform that has been used for campaigns with Cadillac and MAXIM Magazine. Social Enterprise: Hub LA.

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MARCH 22, 2011

Our original name when we launched the firm was Digital Coast Partners, and we focused on being a consulting firm, investment bank, and incubator. In the early years at Montgomery, I was essentially the in-house M&A expert. When the tech bubble burst, we focused on technology M&A investment banking, which was my personal expertise.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. The Economist magazine did a study in the late 90’s on the ROI of an MBA (maybe somebody can help me surface it?).

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Eric Ries is the author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and the lean startup methodology. He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups. magazine covering telecom and broadband stories.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Removing the Middleman: Embedding Shopping on Your Blog. In 2009 my art blog www.johntunger.com earned $188,138 in gross sales from 205,839 unique visitors. Pedro Galván, Software Guru magazine. Entrepreneurism / Monetization blogging, Entrepreneurship, monetization. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. I’ve often talked about the NY advantage of having the NY Times, WSJ, Silicon Alley Insider, New York Magazine and even the editor of TechCrunch based there.

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