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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. So we went for it.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. Does it make sense to spend this time speaking about your early stage start-up when your product has not even entered Alpha testing? Typically its way more important to build product, and pull in early users to give you that feedback vs. speaking about it.