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Every Startup Gains From An Incubator Or Accelerator

Startup Professionals Musings

A question I often get as an adviser is whether or not to join a business incubator or accelerator as a way to move forward faster and smarter and increase the odds of business success. Most incubators start their program with some aptitude and business acumen tests. Costs, returns in equity and funding access.

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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

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end-of-the-year coverage, we've run through our web statistics and figured out which were the. Incubators, Part I - In February, we put together a guide to the list of (then. existant) Southern California accelerators, incubators, and coworking spaces. What was Southern California's technology community most interested in 2012?

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Spireon: More Driving Leads To Upsurge In COVID-19 Cases

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The company said that the timeframe mirrors the incubation period of the virus, with the data serving as another indication that surges in public mobility can lead to an escalation of viral infections.

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Disrupt Indy: Can Data Forge the Path to Inclusive Tech Ecosystems?

Xconomy

tech startups and investment firms have long been thought of as the domain of white men—because historically, they have been.

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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

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Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. That''s the quantitative analysis of statistics to find players. But, we believe that the process doesn''t work at the high school level, because those statistics are not reliable. We thought--there has got to be another way. It''s a big topic.

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A Pitch Of A Different Kind: The LA Dodger's Accelerator First Class

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It was an unusual sight at Dodger's Stadium on Tuesday evening, at least for baseball fans, as a different Dodger's team took the field: the first class of the LA Dodgers Accelerator , an effort by the team to help incubate and accelerate startups in the sports and sport-related areas.

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Tapping The Power Of The Crowd For Ideas, Advice and Funding, with JumpStartFund

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Dirk Ahlborn: We are coming out of the nonprofit incubator, the Girvan Institute of Technology, which has been around since 2002, and is funded by NASA Ames. It is one of the older incubators in Los Angeles, even though not a lot of people know about it. What is JumpStartFund? By using the crowd, you can solve those issues.

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