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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

TechCrunch LA

From wellness chat and journaling apps to therapy substitutes to fitness companies, stick wellness in a pitch and investors will take a second look. Y Combinator, the popular accelerator program and investment firm announced this week that it has promoted longtime partner Geoff Ralston to president. It closed Friday down 3 percent.

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Be Frugal, But Never Cheap When Locking Down Your IP

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal. You can describe your technology as “patent pending”, which may or may not be worthwhile, depending on your product and target customers. Equity Pay - Some attorneys will accept a portion of their initial fees in the form of equity.

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Should Startups Incubate, Accelerate, Cohabitate or Stay In Mom’s Basement?

InfoChachkie

A version of this article previously appeared in The Wall Street Journal. The Numbers - Most Accelerators offer participating startups a modest capital investment in exchange for a 5% to 10% equity interest. Hopefully you will matriculate from your Accelerator with enough investment capital to stay out of mom''s basement.

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CapLinked Teams with Quipa to Protect Business Transactions with Military-Grade Security

Tech Zulu Event

It helps it cients close deals faster, exchange files securely, and manage more deals at any given time making it “the go-to place for setting up and closing deals” according to The Wall Street Journal and making it among the “5 Back-Office Tech Innovations” as listed by Inc. Cutting Edge Technologies. According to Eric M.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

So readers of tech journals gain a bias of the chances of success. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. I learned this lesson long ago – many investors wait until you’re staring at a cliff before committing whether to re-invest in you.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

So readers of tech journals gain a bias of the chances of success. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. I learned this lesson long ago – many investors wait until you’re staring at a cliff before committing whether to re-invest in you.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. magazine and the LA Business Journal. is a good monthly investment? I worthy cause, with a tough customer, the DOD. LA is a special place right now. I think he qualifies.