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Every Startup Gains From An Incubator Or Accelerator

Startup Professionals Musings

A question I often get as an adviser is whether or not to join a business incubator or accelerator as a way to move forward faster and smarter and increase the odds of business success. Most incubators start their program with some aptitude and business acumen tests. Costs, returns in equity and funding access.

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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

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Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. We took that feedback, and developed it into a really streamlined, minimal viable product. That''s the quantitative analysis of statistics to find players. We thought--there has got to be another way. It''s a big topic.

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A Pitch Of A Different Kind: The LA Dodger's Accelerator First Class

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It was an unusual sight at Dodger's Stadium on Tuesday evening, at least for baseball fans, as a different Dodger's team took the field: the first class of the LA Dodgers Accelerator , an effort by the team to help incubate and accelerate startups in the sports and sport-related areas.

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Tapping The Power Of The Crowd For Ideas, Advice and Funding, with JumpStartFund

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Dirk Ahlborn: We are coming out of the nonprofit incubator, the Girvan Institute of Technology, which has been around since 2002, and is funded by NASA Ames. It is one of the older incubators in Los Angeles, even though not a lot of people know about it. They can then join the team, and work with the crowd to further develop the idea.

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Web 1.0 Entrepreneurs: we are roadkill unless we learn to run as fast as today’s founders.

Steve Reich

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. Let me give you a few examples: SwingbySwing Golf created an iPhone/Android app that lets golfers use the GPS in their phone to measure distance to the hole and track statistics. There are 3 people on their team.

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7 Seed-Stage Funding Sources To Finance Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers. Startup incubator seed funding. Many municipalities offer these to facilitate local new business development.

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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. The statistics show that there is five times more venture capital in Silicon Valley than in all of Southern California combined, despite two thirds of the state being here, population-wise. It's a phenomenal place.