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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 Baby Boomers are joining the fun in record numbers.

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10 Reasons For Joining The New Startup Wave Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). The number of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business has grown from 14 percent in 1996 to over 30 percent last year.

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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. Bob Sutton is a Stanford professor and the author of several best-selling books on standout management, including Scaling Up Excellence , an investigation of high-growth companies.

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Do You Dream Of Becoming A CEO?

YoungUpstarts

How non-profit organizations called incubators give life to new entrepreneurial ventures. If so, an incubator might be the best way to help your company get off the ground. To join an incubator, prospective tenants typically must submit business plans , and they are expected to graduate in three to five years. percent in 2011.

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How to Hack Growth When Growth Stalls

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Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Lessons Learned from Bill Gross

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My first exposure to Bill Gross was back in 1996 when I represented (as a lawyer) a company from Ithaca in which IdeaLab invested (that company was sold to Microsoft for $50mm about 6 months after the investment). IdeaLab was then, and still is, Bill’s startup incubator (truly an incubator and not an accelerator).