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

InfoChachkie

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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Techstars LA Draws International Companies For 2021 Class

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The startup accelerator program--which is back in person now after a move online last year due to the pandemic--said the 12 companies include Alva Health (wearables for real time stroke detection), Butterfly Labs (health and wellness services), Cheres (social investing), Communikind (holistic health/clean products), ComplYant (helping entrepreneurs (..)

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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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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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Traveling Geeks meet French Incubators at Paris Development Agency

Tech Zulu Event

Today the Traveling Geeks saw presentations from 11 interesting startups at French incubator, the Paris Development Agency. Scan & Target - a SaaS solution for real-time text mining and analysis of User Generated Content. Stribe offers a plug and play service for instantly creating a social network on any Web site.

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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. If your investor worked inside of a SaaS company for years and disagrees with me then listen to them. And importantly we’ve had revenue.

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Disney Startup Accelerator Names Second Class

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The second class includes Decisive (SaaS for mobile targeting); EMOTIV (brain monitoring technology); FEM Inc. According to Disney, the second class of the Disney Accelerator includes ten startups, who will participate in a three month mentorship and investment program.

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