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TechStar Co-Founder @BFeld: Are We Experiencing A Startup Accelerator Bubble?

InfoChachkie

In the past year, the number of startup accelerators and incubators across the US has grown faster than expansion league baseball. In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. Brad prefaced his comments by highlighting several meaningful distinctions between accelerators and incubators. "I Probably not.

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

socalTECH

It's little known, but we were going to sign the docs on a Series A two days after we got the LOI for TeleNav. 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?

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Stained Glass Labs Patners With Exitround, Unveils App Directory for Google Glass

Tech Zulu Event

Apart from the app directory, SGL has also created a Press Release publishing tool for developers to upload their docs during the submission process easily, making it even better for SGL to send it to its network of industry connection.

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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

socalTECH

I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. There are professors, post docs, and other innovators. My last company got acquired by Qualcomm, and Qualcomm wanted me to move to San Diego to run their emerging business portfolio.