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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

Both Sides of the Table

We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Consumers buying through smart phones, travelers using the new, shared economy and businesses replacing old software with modern cloud-based solutions. It has been a good run.

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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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Xconomy Special Report: 12 San Diego Tech Startup to Watch in 2017

Xconomy

View the Slideshow A little more than a year ago, amid a resurgence in San Diego’s software sector, Xconomy identified a baker’s dozen of local tech companies to watch in 2016. The results were so encouraging, we’re doing it again. Webroot withheld terms of the deal.). I widened my net this year.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. We're definitely Los Angeles natives, but we got the opportunity to do TechStars. It's a casual setupit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. We're also updating the format.

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

socalTECH

Eli Portnoy: We were definitely not looking at acquisition opportunities. Using the incubator to figure out what we were doing made sense, and it gave us a platform to launch and have some unfair advantage in building out our business. Were you looking at acquisition, or did it just come up? It was really great.

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