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Should Startups Incubate, Accelerate, Cohabitate or Stay In Mom’s Basement?

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Significant confusion exists when distinguishing between Accelerators and Incubators. According to Brad, "There is a fundamental difference between an incubator and an accelerator… an incubator has an economic model that is based around having people be tenants. Having people being captive within some investor’s…sphere.

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AnyMeeting Offers Free Accounts to SoCal Startups

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Local startup AnyMeeting is looking to help fellow Southern California startups out, saying this morning that it will provide free, one-year accounts to its premium, ad-free service to any employee of companies within select Los Angeles area incubators and accelerators.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

Both Sides of the Table

Traditional software vs. SaaS. The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. Think of web vs. mobile. SEO marketing vs. social marketing.

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Portfolium Acquired By Instructure

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The company had raised around $9M in total funding, and had been part of the EvoNexus startup incubator. Portfolium had been venture backed by SFJ Ventures, University Ventures, USA Funds, the Tech Coast Angels, Taner Halicioglu of Keshif Ventures, and others. READ MORE>>.

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SendGrid Rolls Application Load Testing Service

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SendGrid said the new service is free to developers, and comes out of its SendGrid Labs effort, a program it has to internally incubate new software and ideas. The firm said its new Loader.io READ MORE>>.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

Tech Zulu Event

The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products. There are a couple of companies that have already done fundraising whereas at a normal incubator non of them would have even started.”. . · Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates.

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

Tech Zulu Event

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan.