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Accelerator Demo Day Season Kicks Off Tomorrow

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It's a new year, and another batch of accelerator startups, as Demo Day season in Los Angeles kicks off this week. The first Demo Day of 2013 in Los Angeles is tomorrow, as MuckerLab launches its latest class of startups; fellow Los Angeles accelerator StartEngine has its first 2013 demo day scheduled for January 30th.

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Accelerators: a recent and positive trend

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Accelerators are organizations that selectively accept entrepreneurs into a program of intense coaching in a physical environment sponsored by the accelerator that also provides seed funds for the startup to begin its business.

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When VCs Play Defense

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The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. They want you to attend demo days. They want you to fund, fund, fund. I’ll go as long as it’s not on a demo day. It’s exhausting.

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Disney Accelerator Shows Off First Class Of Startups

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The Disney Accelerator , the startup accelerator sponsored by Walt Disney and being run by TechStars, had its demo day Tuesday, showing off the nine companies to emerge out of the accelerator. in its seed funding round. disney startup accelerator walt angeles entertainment consumer funding venture capital techstars'

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Curri rolls out nationwide delivery service for construction materials industry

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A little over a year after its graduation from Y Combinator’s demo day, the on-demand construction materials delivery service Curri is beginning to offer its services in all 50 states. “We have high-dollar items that are going out and they’re typically more urgent,” Lafferty said.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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They demoed the electricity transfer with a physical device that looked like something that would never be allowed on an airplane. She had raised seed funds from a who’s who list of investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, Marissa Mayer, Mark Cuban, Troy Carter and so on. But it seemed to work.

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Reflections On 2018: Matt Stodder, Startup Boost LA

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Our most recent Demo Day in November 2018 (at Google/Venice on the main stage) was the most well-attended Demo Day in the history of Startup Boost. And, many of the presenting companies received sizable funding commitments and offers of ongoing help. And as Ive witnessed countless times, they cant get there any other way.