Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 17, 2010
By Jim Flowers A few months ago, Marty invited me to comment on business incubation and what a startup company ought to expect from an incubator. Paul Graham built the mold at Y Combinator , which he founded back in 2005. Tags: entrepreneurs incubators relationships startups. Relationships , I said back then.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. Corporations running internal incubators face many of the same selection issues as startup investors, plus they must grapple with the issues of integrating new ideas into existing P&L-driven functions or business units.
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? In the early days of every business the incumbents tend not to respond because you’re too small and insignificant.
Austin Startup
MAY 11, 2017
We make a majority of our investments in those sectors and prioritize proven business models. home Breaux Capital Breaux and Company is a creative agency and social justice startup incubator. We invest at the earliest stages in transformative companies that are leveraging technology to move our species forward.
Austin Startup
APRIL 27, 2019
It had a gut-wrenching pivot as the first business model didn’t work and today is thriving with its new one. At the beginning of Bazaarvoice in 2005, the market risk was whether or not we could convince retailers to embrace both the positive?—?and Our pivot wasn’t a business model pivot?—?it and negative?—?voice
David Teten
JUNE 7, 2011
Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. When I was graduated from university in 1991 it was only the really committed who eschewed the corporate world for creating tech startup businesses. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year.
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