TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The Los Angeles-based commerce and content platform StackCommerce has been acquired by the Integrated Media Company, a holding company set up by the massive private equity fund, TPG, to acquire new media businesses. Through its platform publishers can make between 15% to 20% of gross compared with 5% on an affiliate marketing site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

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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Xconomy

JUNE 10, 2016

Plans for new incubators were announced in two different cities. The nation’s biggest annual cancer meeting took place in Chicago, while biotech’s trade group held its annual confab in San Francisco. We’ve got those stories, plus a spate of financings and deals, a legal feud, and other news below.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. Her newest venture, Moe Assist, claims to be the first project management and payments tool for influencers. First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat.

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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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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

The group occupies some familiar spaces for past investments, with a focus on niche social communities, mobile media tools and augmented reality. The event kicked off with a few words from CEO Evan Spiegel and soon transitioned into a succession of live-streamed pitches from the 10 startups in Yellow’s latest batch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

These days we all use Skype and collaboration tools. These kinds of office space arrangement are often called “technology incubators&# or “startup labs&# or something similar. These are not to be confused with incubators like YCombinator or IdeaLab which look to invest in your company and take equity positions.

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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

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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Develop Development Product Funding 102

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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Entrepreneur Startup Seed Funding Incubator 101

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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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

It provides tools like the Equity Calculator and curates and vets vendors that service startups. CoFoundersLab has gained ground quickly creating partnerships with entrepreneurial programs at Ivy League universities, top incubators and accelerators, and investors.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Can you talk about a bit about BrightHouse, and how this company came out of that incubation effort? We came to it, because we'd been around private equity, and it's always surprised me how inefficient the marketplace is. tools available, not to mention the growth and size of the private equity market--it's a 2.5

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Participating companies get between $4,000 and $8,000 in addition to mentorship and office space while participating in the 12 week program, and have to give up zero equity in exchange. TravelStrings – TravelStrings is an online platform for building and sharing travel stories. the startup scene really is booming in la!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. And of course hedge funds and growth-equity funds can’t resist trying to get earlier-stage exposure again. The Blurring of Investment Lines.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As an undergradudate, Leila authored background papers for the World Bank's Development Research Group and Ashoka on equity and social rights. He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Tools and Processes for ADD Project Managers/Entrepreneurs. Birds of All Feathers: Creative Industry Incubators. This panel will discuss various aspects of the recently proliferating Creative Industries Incubators. Funding / VC angel, incubator, startups. .

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