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Investors Love Top Startup Incubator Graduates

Startup Professionals Musings

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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The Best Startup Incubators Have the Best People

Startup Professionals Musings

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). The goal of most business incubators today is to strengthen the local economy, and commercialize new technologies. However, many research and technology parks also house incubation programs.

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JLABS Takes Stock of its Experiment in Life Sciences Innovation

Xconomy

The idea in 2011 was to create a space at what was then Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical research and development facility in San Diego for an “innovation center,” a place where 18 to 20 life sciences startups could incubate, replete with lab space and equipment. The first JLABS incubator opened here.

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Bio Roundup: ASCO Opens, Merck Takes On COVID, Evofem?s Approval & More

Xconomy

Today a virtual version of the ASCO conference, the cancer field’s largest, kicks off, with oncologists and others tuning in from throughout the country and around the world to check out the latest in cancer research.

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Startup Accelerators are Entrepreneur Boot Camps

Startup Professionals Musings

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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Radicle Accelerator Fund Launches to Nurture AgTech Innovation

Xconomy

Before making an investment, Radicle says it screens technologies and can quickly vet and validate technologies through its farm connections. In Michigan, the Great Lakes Ag Technology Business Incubator is helping farmers turn their ag ideas into businesses. Last month, AgTech Accelerator unveiled $11.5

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Can We Engineer Serendipity to Find True Love? CupidRadar Says Yes

Tech Zulu Event

The conversation’s moved well past the point of black or white acceptance into grayer areas – specifically from “would you use it” questions to its viability to yield lasting, meaningful connections, (though according to the data by Pew Research , long-term relationships and marriage are also on the rise).

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