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Technology , Cocktails, and Incubators in Santa Barbara

Steve Reich

More than 150 MIT alums gathered Wednesday night for a discussion of incubators/accelerators. Appropriately enough, ­­­we gathered in the about-to-open Synergy Business and Technology Center, Santa Barbara’s latest incubator. Only one controversial topic emerged—the portion of a company’s equity bought by some accelerators.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch LA

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. As with most of Biden’s big infrastructure initiatives, there are startups tackling these issues.

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8 Ways The Maker Movement Turns Ideas Into Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Quick low-cost design and fabrication alternatives are extremely valuable.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

Both Sides of the Table

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. The CTO / Lead Architect - If you want to build a great technology company, you’ll need a “rockstar&# engineering lead. So I believe that every great technology startup has the technology visionary inside the company. Let’s start with the basics.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC. In the late 90′s I saw a dangerous trend creeping into the startup world, which was that companies were suddenly raising huge amounts of money too early in their existence. Over funding often produces bad behavior in early-stage companies.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I say this as somebody who recruited several Harvard, Wharton and similar MBAs at my first company (the one where I acknowledge that I made every mistake in the book). I took a job in corporate finance as an intern my junior year at First Interstate Bank and I did system design on the side, as my main job was corporate planning.

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Miigle Revisited | A SoCal Startup With a Global Mission

Tech Zulu Event

When I first talked with TZ, it was pretty much me just working on the platform and I had outsourced the development to a firm. Back then we invested very little in design. We invested a lot more in design and user interaction by trying to really simplify the experience for whoever visits Miigle, whether member or non-member.

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