Xconomy

APRIL 18, 2017

Following a six-month trial of its digital mortgage platform, San Diego-based Approved has officially launched its Web-based software for home loan applications. Sadhal and Taylor (pictured above) founded Approved in August 2015, and moved into the San Diego tech incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Business equity investors are buying a portion of your business, so they are looking to fund a specific business with a specific offering, not a generic technology. Commercial product prototypes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity. The positives are that you give up no equity, and these apply to the early startup stages, but they do take time and much effort to win. Join a startup incubator.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2016

StartEngine, the onetime startup accelerator, has remade itself as an online, equity crowdfunding site, helping companies to raise money via crowdfunding. Chernick is the former founder of software company Candle Corporation, which he sold to IBM back in 2004.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity. Join a startup incubator. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity (coming soon). The positives are that you give up no equity, and these apply to the early startup stages, but they do take time and much effort to win. Join a startup incubator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity. The positives are that you give up no equity, and these apply to the early startup stages, but they do take time and much effort to win. Join a startup incubator.

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Develop Development Product Startup 70

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity (coming soon). The positives are that you give up no equity, and these apply to the early startup stages, but they do take time and much effort to win. Join a startup incubator.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

The 9+ incubator has already closed $2 million in funding and has already attracted gaming entrepreneurs eager to create a new breed of mobile services including gaming entrepreneur Jason Citron who developed the early iPhone hit Aurora Feint and the hugely popular OpenFeint platform. 2 million raised. Growth hackers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. The hottest new way of funding startups is to use online sites, like Kickstarter , to request donations, pre-order, get a reward, or even give equity. Join a startup incubator. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

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Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 53

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

K5Launch (www.k5launch.com) is modeled after the successful Y-Combinator and TechStars acceleration programs, and invests equity, provides mentors, and runs a three month program to get very early stage startups off the ground. Are there specific kinds of companies you're hoping to see in the incubator?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative. Business equity investors are buying a portion of your business, so they are looking to fund a specific business with a specific offering, not a generic technology. Commercial product prototypes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. Business accelerator.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. For consulting work, I have done several projects with Lou Sokolovskiy of Genero Capital , a boutique private equity firm.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

—A team led by Jef Boeke of New York University, George Church of Harvard University, Andrew Hessel of software maker Autodesk, and Nancy Kelley proposed in the journal Science to build a synthetic human genome. To find out more, dive into this week’s roundup.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We saw early on that the cloud as we know it today--utility services, software, and so on--was an entry point to do that, including with hosting. One of the important things we set up as part of this deal, and achieved, was that because of its structure we were able to bring in debt, rather than equity, because of our cash flow.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Bambi Francisco. Dave McClure. .

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

Our software is also able to optimize workflows and speed, so that the robot is not just taking orders, it's also doing a better job coordinating the kitchen. What is Miso Robotics? It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso?

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly CompStudy 2008 Report on Equity and Cash Compensation at Technology Startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. I see this emerging in Seattle and the passion of “a few key individuals&# who can help shift the game. We know it can be done. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Software Labs: Petri Dishes for Tech Innovation. Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Pedro Galván, Software Guru magazine. How UX and the Cloud are Transforming Software. If you’re an entrepreneur or software ninjette who wants to make a full-time income from your web. Spencer Fry, Carbonmade, LLC.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Creators and influencers like Bernstein are forging a path from content creator to full-fledged business, with multiple revenue streams via podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise and even software products. “A million Series A led by Puma Private Equity, a U.K.-focused The business has attracted about $4.5 focused fund.

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