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Accelerators Have Resources To KickStart Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

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These markets have brought us to 2020 — outpacing them all — is Colombia. Ruta N.com, a public-joint venture established in 2009, also helped the city earn significant attention by providing landing services, office space, and incubation for startups. The government creates programs to help entrepreneurs. Truly innovative.

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7 Entrepreneur Stages Help You Assess Your Progress

Startup Professionals Musings

This place is often called an incubator or accelerator, or just a group of peers. One of the most successful incubators is Y Combinator in Silicon Valley. Maybe you are more comfortable going slow, with limited resources, or aiming high and giving up equity. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/28/2020.

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Cleantech Open Northeast 2021

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Cleantech Open has a particular focus on incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) values into its program. In 2020, 63% of the startups in the Cleantech Open Northeast cohort were founded by women or BIPOC leaders. Cleantech Open is a nonprofit accelerator that takes no equity in its participating startups.

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Strategy Roundtable: Try To Get At Least $2M Pre-Money In Seed Round Valuation

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Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. As a thumb rule, try to get enough validation so that you can get to at least a $2 million pre-money valuation before raising equity capital. That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I Photo by lco.

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Strategy Roundtable: Open Opportunities in Cloud Computing and Rural BPO

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Whether it is credit or equity, funding is very, very tight. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series. This is important, so please listen up. Photo by takatuka.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: 1M/1M Announces Partnership With MAD Incubator, Malaysia

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At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced a very important partnership with MAD Incubator, Malaysia for entrepreneurship development in the region. This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia.

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