Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. I also know many people who never studied business as an undergrad who appreciated the knowledge that they gained as an MBA. It’s either part of the DNA or it’s not.

Startup 337

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socalTECH

AUGUST 23, 2012

The group said its study's goal is to help startups choose an accelerator and generate discussion about what makes a good accelerator. The numerous other accelerators in Southern California, including many in Los Angeles, were not included in the ranking project, based on the list released by Tech Cocktail. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

A more important question, then, for an aspiring entrepreneur, should be what to study in college for maximum value, rather than whether to drop out or stay. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. It’s never too early to stop studying and start doing it for real. Get real experience early.

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Entrepreneur Tips Writing Coach 149

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

23:00 Question from the audience: Do VCs have a preference for startups that choose to work with incubators? I saw a study out of the Kauffman foundation that said the rate of startups in LA is higher than anywhere else in the country. 16:15 Thank you to Detroit Venture Partners for their support of the show.

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Rustic Canyon Venture Capital Southern California Userplane 279

Xconomy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

VelosBio joined Johnson & Johnson’s JLABS @ San Diego incubator in January. The new VelosBio cash is earmarked for completing the work needed to proceed into human studies. The company is developing antibody drug conjugates, a class of cancer drug that links antibodies to potent cancer-fighting toxins.

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San Diego Incubator Class Study 91

socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. The firm was incubated with the founder's own cash--the other founder is my father. That gives 60 impressions per attendee per hour, which adds up fairly quickly when you're serving up hundreds of thousands of webinars a month.

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Tech Coast Angels Web Screening Pasadena Angels 178

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

We spoke with Nikhil, to hear why he thinks the site is important for green technology companies and investors, as well as how the effort is related to his own incubation firm, Artilient Labs. As my thesis in college, I studied the efficiency of salt water ponds to store solar power. Let's start with an overview of Clean Green Guy.

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Southern California Startup eHarmony Sites 193

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

A more important question, then, for an aspiring entrepreneur, should be what to study in college for maximum value, rather than whether to drop out or stay. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. It’s never too early to stop studying and start doing it for real. Get real experience early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Applied research is still primarily scientific study, seeking to solve practical problems, but doesn’t yet focus on a commercial product. Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Commercial product prototypes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

A more important question, then, for an aspiring entrepreneur, should be what to study in college for maximum value, rather than whether to drop out or stay. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. It’s never too early to stop studying and start doing it for real. Get real experience early.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Tips Writing Coach 98

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

A more important question, then, for an aspiring entrepreneur, should be what to study in college for maximum value, rather than whether to drop out or stay. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. It’s never too early to stop studying and start doing it for real. Get real experience early.

Startup 97

Startup Writing Coach Incubator 97

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After launching a study to identify how tech hubs work, the leader of a nonprofit consortium created to boost Southern California’s startup ecosystem says he is focusing on three initiatives to supercharge the seven-county SoCal region as a hotbed for innovation. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. We were working on a bunch of different projects when we first started at the incubator. Ryan Disraeli: I was studying business with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. How did the company start? What were you majoring in?

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Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2016

The three programs are among only eight accelerator ranked among the top programs by the study. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Report Study Startup 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

The app beat 70 other start-ups focused on innovation in digital media and technology to win the first place at the Silicon Beach Awards hosted by the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Southern California. Winning the USC’s Silicon Beach Awards however is not their only accomplishment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2023

A classic study based on intensive research, “ The Myths of Creativity ,” by David Burkas tries to demystify the processes and forces that drive innovation. Most believe and follow one or more of the popular myths on business creativity, even though none of them have much scientific evidence. Breed myth.

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Ideas Startup Research Incubator 127

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 112

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

I went to school at Babson, back East, and majored in finance and entrepreneurial studies. I've been engaged in about thirty startups, anywhere from in incubators, being an angel investor, to leading the charge. I've never had a proper job, and have been on one gear, building businesses, for a very long time.

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Southern California Startup Customer Custom 200

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

Applied research is still primarily scientific study, seeking to solve practical problems, but doesn’t yet focus on a commercial product. Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative. This is the transition stage from basic research to applied research.

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Develop Development Product Funding 102

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Applied research is still primarily scientific study, seeking to solve practical problems, but doesn’t yet focus on a commercial product. Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Commercial product prototypes.

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Resource Ideas Funding Research 102

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Yes, I studied Ricardo’s theory of Comparative Advantage in college that says that lower-skilled jobs should move to countries with lower labor costs, but Andy Grove’s point about loss of skills in manufacturing leading to a decline in innovation in the next technology wave is both real and troubling.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

socalTECH

MAY 1, 2019

One of the legal management companies, Clio, put out a study not more than a year ago saying that the average small business spends an hour and a half a day dealing with billing and collections. Here's something else that might be interesting to people here, is everyone know there are a lot of technology incubators out there.

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Legalzoom Startup Incubator Services 127

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

You also asked about our labs, and we have been fortunate to be part of the UCLA Incubator, which you may know houses the California Nanosystems Institute. So this would have been a lot more difficult if those labs weren't available to you as a company in the incubator? So those resources have been fantastic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

According to the Kauffman Foundation and other studies, the average entrepreneur is actually thirty-nine years old, and the success rate of entrepreneurs over forty is five times higher than that of entrepreneurs under thirty. Most successful startups spring from local incubators. Most successful entrepreneurs are young and crazy.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A number of years ago, I did a case study for Harvard Business School. We provide a startup studio which incubates and accelerates businesses and a pre-seed / seed investment fund. I’m super excited about it! I met an inspiring professor who ran the case development named Professional Noam Wasserman.

Startup 105

Startup Case Study Ideas Invest 105

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Julie Edge, who received a grant from The Kauffman Foundation to conduct the first study on cofounder relationships. CoFoundersLab has gained ground quickly creating partnerships with entrepreneurial programs at Ivy League universities, top incubators and accelerators, and investors.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Santa Monica Startup CTO Hire 87

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2013

A new study based on the latest research, “ The Myths of Creativity ,” by David Burkas tries to demystify the processes and forces that drive innovation. Most believe and follow one or more of the popular myths on business creativity, even though none of them have much scientific evidence. Breed myth.

Startup 94

Startup Research Ideas Incubator 94

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

There was a recent study which showed that adding a video makes it 53 times more likely that you'll have a Google first page search result. We actually incubated Near Networks out of Serious Business, and because we were excited about the video space, we decided to put lots of energy and time into it.

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Networking Search Engine Optimization Product Startup 150

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2013

I studied a Business Science with Honours in Marketing at University of Cape Town. We received some incubation from 42 Engine, but beyond this will start looking for VC in 2013. Our incubator 42 Engines has a unique structure where all business owners take a vested interest in each other’s businesses.

Startup 71

Startup Incubator Marketing Seed Funding 71

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

San Diego’s Avalon Ventures led the Series A round, and has established Fortis at COI Pharma, the firm’s biotech incubator (which now houses 16 life sciences startups). [ Note: The headline has been corrected to better describe the company’s type of funding. 9/27/16, 2:09 p.m. Bregua Corp.,

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Avalon Funding Startup San Diego 40

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

The idea, is to make it accessible as a multi-disciplinary part of Tel Aviv University, so that young people, alumni, and students with ideas for a company can join the fund, not only to be funded with seed money, but also so they can be accelerated and potentially incubated before they go out.

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El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

In San Diego, the Irvine Company provided the entire second floor of its Broadway Street building at no cost for the downtown EvoNexus incubator. A number of tech startups that graduated from the EvoNexus incubator have moved into other offices in the building. 101 West Broadway tower in downtown San Diego.

Develop 40

Develop Development San Diego Startup 40

Steve Reich

AUGUST 9, 2012

” And the Kauffman Foundation just published a major study pointing out that all but the top 10% of VC firms fail to create value. I’ve been spending some time at LaunchPad and Amplfy, and some of the best startups in LA are at those incubators. It’s not getting easier to find capital, particularly for A rounds.

Angel 49

Angel Pasadena Angels Venture Capital Pasadena 49

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning.

Entrepreneur 58

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2018

If you are looking to fund a technology study, before any specific commercial product can be considered, you need to focus on relevant large organizations with deep pockets. Find private fund incubators for technology pilots. Sources include government grants, universities, and large enterprises searching for next generation products.

Research 57

Research Develop Development Funding 57

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

Here I am now, learning about a new industry, which is great as I was extremely interested in space and studied all sorts of stuff related to it in college, as a benefit of having been in liberal arts. What's your biggest advice for a space entrepreneur?

Southern California 124

Southern California Startup Entrepreneur Los Angeles 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2016

A classic study based on intensive research, “ The Myths of Creativity ,” by David Burkas tries to demystify the processes and forces that drive innovation. Most believe and follow one or more of the popular myths on business creativity, even though none of them have much scientific evidence. Breed myth.

Entrepreneur 60

Entrepreneur Research Ideas Incubator 60