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6 Funding Resources For Ideas Needing More Validation

Startup Professionals Musings

If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Commercial product prototypes. Marty Zwilling

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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

socalTECH

he's been spinning out of his incubator. What's the idea behind the incubator? Now, we're turning into a formal incubator. However, we're very different than most incubators, in that we only do big data. Second, we only incubate companies we ourselves start. It's been great.

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6 Sources of Help For Early Stage Concept Exploration

Startup Professionals Musings

If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Commercial product prototypes. Marty Zwilling.

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Realistic Strategies For Funding Product Development

Startup Professionals Musings

If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative. Thus the best entrepreneur strategy for funding is to build solutions, not technology.

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8 Keys To Innovation And Responding To Market Change

Startup Professionals Musings

As I “grew up” in business in big companies, including IBM, I always wondered why the real innovations seemed to come from startups, while we had more resources and more experience. Of course, you have to propose solutions, request funding, and marshal peer support for credibility. Balance the focus on productivity versus creativity.

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7 Guidelines For Funding New Research & Development

Startup Professionals Musings

As an advisor to new business owners, and an occasional angel investor, I see new business proposals daily, many seeking investors to fund early research and development (R&D) of a new product idea. Funding new product research and development is just too risky, with a large time delay before any return is likely.

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A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars.

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