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4 Best Websites To Apply For Accelerators And Incubators

YoungUpstarts

by Melvin Wong , founder of Kodorra. This is why it is especially important for startup founders to seek help to guide them through the tedious and often perilous process of starting and growing a company. Incubators, on the other hand, are focused on building the entrepreneurship foundation of first-time entrepreneurs.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles. Incubators, Accelerators, Competitions. Big names like Microsoft BizSpark and Sun Startup Essentials have a presence here, of course, and The Funded recently launched their Founder Institute in Paris as well.

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4 Best Websites to Apply for Acceleration and Incubation Programs

Kodorra

This is why it is especially important for startup founders to seek help to guide them through the tedious and often perilous process of starting and growing a company. In recent years, startup accelerators and startup incubators have become the place of choice for any budding entrepreneurs to be the next unicorn.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Seed is the new Series A, but who’s supporting founders pre-launch?

The Equity Kicker

I’m going to quote his definitions in full: 2004 definition. — B Round: The funding necessary to get founder liquidity, build groovy headquarters, and make competitors give up (or not start in the first place). . — In 2004 it took until Series C to scale your product because it took a lot of money. 2014 definition. —

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Stock Quotes.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Today, TheFunded.com and the Founder Institute is announcing in conjunction with law firm Wilson Sonsini, Convertible Equity, a startup-friendly seed-financing vehicle intended to replace Convertible Debt notes.

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