Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2014

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. According to the National Business Incubator Association (NBIA), there are currently over 1,900 members in over 60 nations. Peer support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2013

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. According to the National Business Incubator Association (NBIA) , there are currently over 1250 incubators today in the US alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2010

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). The goal of most business incubators today is to strengthen the local economy, and commercialize new technologies. However, many research and technology parks also house incubation programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

Here you are definitely betting on the person, rather than the idea, but the upside potential is huge. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. The incubator so far includes startups Lottay , Geodelic , and a number of other Internet and other technology firms. Tell us about the incubator--how long as it been around?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

These resources are definitely not limited to students, since every university seeks out and needs the real world exposure and experience of entrepreneurs who already are active in the real world marketplace. Connections to a mentor. They also provide incubator services and space for early startups. Early-stage funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2012

These resources are definitely not limited to students, since every university seeks out and needs the real world exposure and experience of entrepreneurs who already are active in the real world marketplace. Connections to a mentor. They also provide incubator services and space for early startups. Early-stage funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Here you are definitely betting on the person, rather than the idea, but the upside potential is huge. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Micro-VCs, by definition, are firms that invest institutional money (meaning other people’s money) in projects that are at the seed stage or are too small to attract the attention of more traditional venture capitalists. Startup incubator seed funding. A micro venture capital firm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

These resources are definitely are not limited to students, since every university wants and needs the real world exposure and experience of entrepreneurs who already have credibility in the marketplace. A little known, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your local university.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Here you are definitely betting on the person, rather than the idea, but the upside potential is huge. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Here you are definitely betting on the person, rather than the idea, but the upside potential is huge. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

We're definitely Los Angeles natives, but we got the opportunity to do TechStars. We have some great mentors now. Thanks to TechStars, we've got an awesome mentor who's co-habitating with us now, and we're learning something daily from him. Alex Benzer: We're definitely looking at taking money later this year.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

I started with a list of companies already screened by the San Diego Venture Group’s annual venture summit, and consulted with investors and startup mentors to refine the list. I am grateful to Mike Krenn, the venture group’s president, for his help on this project. I widened my net this year.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Here you are definitely betting on the person, rather than the idea, but the upside potential is huge. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Incubator: Amplify LA. Abrams, Jim Wiatt, and Zach James have presented at Amplify’s Wednesday evening mentor events. Named after the timeless Betty Davis song, Nasty Gal carries the spirit of founder Sophia Amoruso — adventurous, stylish, and definitely unique. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

To progress and be LA tech-focused, we started incubating ideas. Are incubating companies one of the main focuses of Engage:BDR? We are constantly incubating projects since Engage:BDR started. You definitely want to create some impact. We have a launched a performance agency, technically a CPA product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Here you are definitely betting on the person, rather than the idea, but the upside potential is huge. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

Tucker Kain: One thing we've found, is the ability to bring a brand like the Dodgers to bear on these early stage businesses opens up opportunities for them, from our network of mentors and industry experts. We want the Dodgers brand, and R/GA's core competencies to be very valuable and strategic to these companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

She has been interviewed by Tony Robbins “as one of the world’s leading lifestyle and online marketing experts and mentored young business owners at Richard Branson’s Centre of Entrepreneurship in South Africa.” And last, but definitely, not least, who can ignore the black comedian online powerhouse who is Glozell Green?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. For me, it's a matter of degree.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly But how do you actually get the right people to be your mentors?

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