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6 Funding Resources For Ideas Needing More Validation

Startup Professionals Musings

The first is to be more precise in your definition and understanding of where you are, and how the money will be spent. Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Commercial product prototypes.

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6 Sources of Help For Early Stage Concept Exploration

Startup Professionals Musings

The first is to be more precise in your definition and understanding of where you are, and how the money will be spent. Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Commercial product prototypes.

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

TechCrunch LA

These are industries where structural impediments to technology adoption have only recently been broken down by the advent of incredibly powerful mobile devices. Specifically, the proposal calls for funding for community-based small business incubators and innovation hubs to support growth in communities of color and underserved communites.

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Accelerator To Exit In 14 Months, With Eli Portnoy of ThinkNear

socalTECH

We have refind our thesis around why mobile is so special, and how it ties into location, and have spent two years working on precise, location targeted ads in the industry. Eli Portnoy: We were definitely not looking at acquisition opportunities. It quickly turned to M&A discussion, and how to make it happen really quickly.

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Realistic Strategies For Funding Product Development

Startup Professionals Musings

The first is to be more precise in your definition and understanding of where you are, and how the money will be spent. Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative. Commercial product prototypes.

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How Classy Is Helping Nonprofits To Attract and Retain Supporters

socalTECH

What do you get when you combine a charitable pub crawl, the movie Anchorman, and a software developer randomly hired off Craigslist? In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. How did you start the company?

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Spotlight: LA Tech Winter | Recap, Videos, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

Building a strong tech industry to rival that of Silicon Valley is definitely no easy feat, but the overall feeling within Cal Tech’s Baxter Hall at last week’s event certainly bodes well for the year. They also gave a quick tour of the dashboard that clients would be using to customize their now mobile ready sites.