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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

Startup Professionals Musings

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. 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). Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Those numbers are likely conservative. November 29, 2012.

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Add Startups to Balance Your Portfolio, If You Dare

Startup Professionals Musings

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Today these are only legal in the USA for non-equity rewards or pre-orders, but the JOBS Act will relax the accredited investor rule by early 2013. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Incubator List/ Local Startup Resources/ Startup Q&A.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. They have aggregated talent into similar locations to learn from each other and made it easier for high-profile mentors to meet many companies at once. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators.

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San Diego Founders’ Fight Club Pitch-Off

Business Plan Blog

Wednesday November 7th, 2013. HouseCall was recently accepted to the latest cohort of startups at EvoNexus , the business incubator of CommNexus. We’re aggregating commercial content on tablets and phones. Unless expressed, the startups and entrepreneurs in these series are not clients of The Startup Garage. via website].

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

It is what Seed used to be from 2009-2013, until the Seed rounds got fat and bloated and the bar for raising a Seed round became a lot higher. Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. This has been pretty much what K9 has been doing since 2013. Q: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed?