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5 Preconditions for Success in Spawning a New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Thus, I was happy to see some real actionable advice on this challenge in a new book, “ The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed ,” by Linda Yates, the founder and CEO of a leading growth incubator for global businesses. Make sure everyone comes with an entrepreneur mindset for real innovation.

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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. Create company measures for success that go beyond financial metrics. You manage what you measure so be careful about having too narrowly defined of performance metrics.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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In our industry we applaud the efforts for entrepreneurs to have tried and we know that today’s failure can bring the experience for tomorrow’s success. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product. Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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I think that the market was, however, hotter two years ago, when companies were buying more aggressively, and there was lots of pent-up demand. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. an incubator in Singapore, and we do a dozen or so investments a year. We were involved in the Gradient X deal, and that was a nice one.