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5 Ways To Safely Sample The Entrepreneur Lifestyle

Startup Professionals Musings

There are many organizations which cater to entrepreneurs, including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and local startup incubators. As with any job search, always play to your strengths, and stick to business domains and roles you already know. Hang out where entrepreneurs meet. Your best job leads will come from other entrepreneurs.

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UCLA Engineers Create World's Fastest Camera

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UCLA said that the team at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, led by Bahram Jalali, developed a digital camera able to process 100,000 cells per second in blood samples, approximately 100 times higher than conventional, image-based blood analyzers. Image courtesty BigStock.com. READ MORE>>.

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Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Impact entertainment “accelerator” inks deal with Netflix

TechCrunch LA

” Writers need to submit an idea and a writing sample from today through July 6. The Imagine Impact vetting process involves both experienced readers and a natural language processing system that the talent incubator developed internally.

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Los Angeles Accelerator Report Card: Too Early To Tell

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For our first measure, we tabulated the venture capital raised by accelerator firms --that is, companies that are tied to local accelerator/incubators. Capital raise ability is one of the ideas behind the whole trend towards accelerator--to help startups raise capital, who otherwise might have found it more difficult. Of that, $97.47

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Failing to Plan, Is Planning to Fail

Tech Coast Venture Network

The are free samples on the web.but caution, some are better than others! OC's Premium Incubator - Supporting Start-Up Businesses in our Business Collective". Projected Financials: 5 year Cashflows & Income Statements (Balance Sheets Preferable as well). Current owner investment. Marketing Plan. So make a plan! www.WINopp.com.

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New Early Stage Financing Options for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

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Primer On Funding Trends for Early-Stage Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Business accelerator.

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