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Southern California Accelerator Report Card: Q1 2013

socalTECH

There''s been a lot of activity over the past two years in the Southern California accelerator/incubator market, with numerous groups (Amplify, EvoNexus, K5, LaunchpadLA, MediaCamp, Science, StartEngine, and many, many others) looking to help entrepreneurs start and fund their companies. But, how successful have they been? Science Inc.

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Here’s Why a Booming Tech Market May Fool You into Thinking You’re Successful

Both Sides of the Table

We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. ” Case studies get done with ebullient CEO’s espousing the benefits of said software even though their organization was barely using the product.

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Why an Atlanta-based Black influencer collective swapped their collab house for a studio

TechCrunch LA

The group says they took inspiration from similar community-oriented tech incubators in Atlanta like the Russel Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs , PROPEL Center and Gathering Spot , but Collab Studio will focus more specifically on the entertainment industry.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

I like to use the example of a company I backed called MakeSpace because it’s such an easy an obvious market to understand. For example, if you’re going to build a travel planning website (as many, many startup entrepreneurs do) your basic research would be: How much do people spend on travel books / guides today?

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At “The Vine,” Developer Builds a Vertical Campus for Tech Startups

Xconomy

For example: Can a 20-story office tower serve as a “vertical campus” and innovation hub for local tech companies? In San Diego, the Irvine Company provided the entire second floor of its Broadway Street building at no cost for the downtown EvoNexus incubator. 101 West Broadway tower in downtown San Diego.

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LegalZoom Founder Brian Liu Talks About His New Legal Startup, BizCounsel

socalTECH

One of the legal management companies, Clio, put out a study not more than a year ago saying that the average small business spends an hour and a half a day dealing with billing and collections. Here's something else that might be interesting to people here, is everyone know there are a lot of technology incubators out there.

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10 Ways For Entrepreneurs To Meet Cash Flow Peaks

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. Join a startup incubator. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.