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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

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What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. Courtesy of Sphero & Disney. Meet the 11 startups for 2017: Ambidio. Epic Games.

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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

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“I think the best VCs help drive exits alongside their entrepreneurs. Disney Acquires Maker Studios f0r $500 million and with earn-out potentially up to $950 million. And in an industry measured by a decade rather than a year it’s hard to refute so you mostly just move on in the conversation. None have exited.

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

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Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, Twitter, LinkedIn, Salesforce not to mention Disney, Warner, GM, P&G. And when the press releases and the attaboys wear off it still comes down to real work.

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A Seriously Great Story and Why We Funded Them

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We are often asked how companies get funded, why VCs make the decisions we make and what we’re looking for in entrepreneurs. Andrew & Petri posed a question to me, “If Walt Disney were starting his company today, what kind of company would he build?” The Walt Disney Corporation.

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23 Startup Tips From Oprah Winfrey

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Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg , Michael Dell and Larry Ellison. Oprah Winfrey is one of the most successful entrepreneurs of her generation. From these, I collected 23 insightful missives of interest to aspiring entrepreneurs. We all stumble.

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More Startup Tips From The Beatles

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Other installments include: Jeff Bezos , Steve Jobs , Mark Cuban , Richard Branson , Walt Disney , Mark Zuckerberg , Michael Dell and Larry Ellison. However, despite the book’s shortcomings, it contains a number of insightful lessons emerging entrepreneurs can apply to their startup careers. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. And of course many more of us are gluten intolerant or want to live gluten-reduced lives.

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