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Every Startup Gains From An Incubator Or Accelerator

Startup Professionals Musings

A question I often get as an adviser is whether or not to join a business incubator or accelerator as a way to move forward faster and smarter and increase the odds of business success. Most incubators start their program with some aptitude and business acumen tests. Costs, returns in equity and funding access.

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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

socalTECH

end-of-the-year coverage, we've run through our web statistics and figured out which were the. venture capital exits in. Incubators, Part I - In February, we put together a guide to the list of (then. existant) Southern California accelerators, incubators, and coworking spaces. As part of our. As 2012 turned.

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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

socalTECH

Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. That''s the quantitative analysis of statistics to find players. But, we believe that the process doesn''t work at the high school level, because those statistics are not reliable. We thought--there has got to be another way.

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Web 1.0 Entrepreneurs: we are roadkill unless we learn to run as fast as today’s founders.

Steve Reich

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. Let me give you a few examples: SwingbySwing Golf created an iPhone/Android app that lets golfers use the GPS in their phone to measure distance to the hole and track statistics. Capital to date? $20k

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Disrupt Indy: Can Data Forge the Path to Inclusive Tech Ecosystems?

Xconomy

tech startups and investment firms have long been thought of as the domain of white men—because historically, they have been.

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7 Seed-Stage Funding Sources To Finance Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

According to recent statistics , there are already over 500 website crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter , available; and over $5 billion was raised this way last year. A micro venture capital firm. A “genesis” venture capital round. Startup incubator seed funding. Here they are: A crowdfunding campaign.

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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

socalTECH

I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. But, there is broad agreement that it would be a wonderful thing to get more entrepreneurs and venture capital into the region. As you know, Silicon Valley has a locker grip on the venture capital community.