Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

With top-ranked accelerators Lauchpad LA closing its doors and Y Combinator rebranding itself as a seed fund, it seems fair to ask the question, “Are Accelerators Dead?”. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Good news: a quick review of TechCrunch’s March 2015 List of Top 20 U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

ABC has even created an incubator-style program in which startup non-profits compete for $100,000 in seed funding. Some are using technology in creative ways to customize and enhance the educational experience for students. Time will tell if we are successful at that.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next 10 Ventures , an LA-based $50 million venture capital fund founded by Benjamin Grubbs, YouTube’s former global director of top creator partnerships and Paul Condolora, the former co-head of the Harry Potter franchise at Warner Bros., invests exclusively in the space.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2013

Bootstrapping or seed funded? We received some incubation from 42 Engine, but beyond this will start looking for VC in 2013. Our incubator 42 Engines has a unique structure where all business owners take a vested interest in each other’s businesses. What are your 2013 plans? Who else is on your team?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In my view, no amount of academic education can prepare you for the challenges of running a business, but real experience will quickly open your eyes to some of the challenges, and let you know how much you enjoy responding to these on a day-to-day basis. At this stage, good relationships are more important than knowledge.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 24, 2014

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. Raising money Surrounding yourself with talent'

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

In California the primary school education system has cut 10 days from the school year to save jobs. Let me preface by saying I obviously have a vested interest in being wrong about tough times ahead but as the old saying goes, “hope for best, plan for the worst.”.

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