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Wi-Fi Alliance Moves Up and Out

Austin Startup

Sometimes with the help of start-up incubators, like the University of Texas’ Austin Technology Incubator (ATI). Before this, it was housed, since inception in 1999, within the walls of ATI, where the Wi-Fi Alliance and ATI built a unique, collaborative relationship. That number is predicted to surpass 2 billion by 2015.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. it was a target market pivot.

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Wall Street, Football, and The Great Deception

Growthink Blog

He mostly followed the “buy and hold” principles of Warren Buffet, John Templeton, and Peter Lynch and his portfolio just went up and up. And in the 90’s, the good times rolled, with the Dow skyrocketing from 777 in August 1982 to 11,028 in September 1999. Invest in a Portfolio of Startup Businesses.

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Twitter Link Roundup #144 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

The video above shows Billie Holiday (one of my favorite singers) singing “Strange Fruit”, a song that Time manazine named, in 1999, the “song of the century” The song is a protest against racism. Incubator 1871 Nurtures Chicago’s Growing Startup Scene – [link]. I’ll take a gigabit to go.

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

How to build a portfolio of startup investments. How to add value to a portfolio company. What to do when your portfolio startup pivots. From the perspective of best practices, we will address questions such as: How to assess opportunities (idea, team, valuation). How to source great deals. When should you think about exits.

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Why Venture Capital No Longer Defines Innovation

ReadWriteStart

Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. So much so that Jeff Levy, an entrepreneur and investor at Lamberts Cove, believes that an accelerator bubble may be forming. Depends on who, and how, you ask.

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FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap

thebarefootvc

We got to know stellar entrepreneurs in the space and backed them early – 50% of our portfolio is comprised of companies who are defining this computing paradigm, and FPV continues to be a go-to fund for entrepreneurs looking for sector expertise. When we launched, few had heard of blockchain, and bitcoin was a dirty word.