crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. Miami’s close ties with Latin America has bolstered its appeal. Housing and rent prices are at unbelievable levels, and the difficulties of such a high cost of living are real and growing, issues. Austin, TX. Los Angeles, CA.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 19, 2018

by Quint Studer, author of “ Building A Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change Is Reshaping America “ America’s small towns are doing really big things. Now we are on track to become America’s first Early Learning City. Get creative in your efforts to incubate minority-owned small businesses.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 27, 2012

There are more than 1,000 business incubators in the U.S. But there’s only one pro bono incubator. Which is probably a good thing, since Bono was named the 2010 worst investor in America. (OK, Like most other high-tech incubators, EvoNexus provides entrepreneurs with office space, mentoring and VC networking.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. Miami’s close ties with Latin America has bolstered its appeal. Housing and rent prices are at unbelievable levels, and the difficulties of such a high cost of living are real and growing, issues. with their startups growing by 81.2

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

My experience has been this lever brings three benefits: it lowers origination costs because more founders want to raise capital from you; it enhances your leverage in negotiating with the CEO; and it lowers your failure rate. . – Incubating companies. Many research studies have shown the value of a diverse management team.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

My experience has been this lever brings three benefits: it lowers origination costs because more founders want to raise capital from you; it enhances your leverage in negotiating with the CEO; and it lowers your failure rate. . – Incubating companies. Many research studies have shown the value of a diverse management team.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

We started this week's One Million by One Million roundtable with a discussion of online advertising trends, looking at them from the perspective of cost-effective customer acquisition and brand building, as well as entrepreneurial opportunities. You can find more on the topic on my blog at Top 10 Online Advertising Trends For The Decade.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

The Texas capital recently was named the #1 place in America to start a business by CNBC. Miami’s close ties with Latin America has bolstered its appeal. Housing and rent prices are at unbelievable levels, and the difficulties of such a high cost of living are real and growing, issues. with their startups growing by 81.2

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

The Birthplace of America. Philly welcomes startups with a growing network of coworking facilities, incubators, and accelerators. Coworking offices like WeWork, Walnut Street Labs, and 1776 are efficient options for startups thriving on collaboration and cost-savings. The City of Brotherly Love.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Crowd funding is setting new records worldwide, with $17 billion from North America alone, and VCs poured another $100 billion more into small growth companies last year. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution. Understand all the stakeholders, deployment issues, costs, resources, and ultimate mission value. Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or AmeriCorps. Real Problems.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MARCH 18, 2014

That’s bad news not just for Silicon Valley, and those folks squeaking by, but for innovation in America in general. It’s one huge incubator for innovation and it’s a beautiful thing. Can we agree that Silicon Valley has been the cradle of American Innovation for at least 30 years? Where would we be without it?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is not a product incubator for a specific technology solution. Understand all the stakeholders, deployment issues, costs, resources, and ultimate mission value. Today if college students want to give back to their country they think of Teach for America , the Peace Corps , or AmeriCorps. Real Problems.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you have a friend who is a recruiter then ask them to tell you what they recommend that will not cost anything. This means considering what the opportunity cost for working on a high risk venture is relative to other things they can spend their time on. If they own a Mac Book Pro that may cost around $1,800 bucks (new).

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

If you are a qualified candidate for a prominent accelerator or incubator program in your field of interest, and, if you get accepted, you should go. But, it’s not a town to know and gain access to corporate America if that is a key component of your business model. Where does cost enter the equation?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. We have lower costs to create companies – leading to more early stage innovation.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer. …By creating the BUILDUP VC incubator and accelerator … we’re got into the business of providing education and access. You have to put yourself out there. And it’s a culture issue. .

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Dahl served as co-head of healthcare investment banking in North America at Credit Suisse First Boston. Cost: $20 Members of HBSCT and/or HBS Angels of NY; $30 Non-members & Guests. Mr. Dahl is a director of several private companies. She is also an Angel Investor in early stage businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

According to the latest Kaufman Startup Activity Index , entrepreneurs are making an unprecedented comeback in America, with data showing the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Cost of entry for a startup is at an all-time low. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

As a kid growing up in America in a middle class family it just seemed so remote. I mean people out there don't realize the cost per click for advertising is going down. The customer acquisition costs are going down. Now is the time to do those things so that you come on the other side after the reset, in America 2.0,

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

UT Austin is home to the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), the longest-standing technology incubator in the country, which has had an economic impact of over $3 billion in Texas with a focus on deep tech such as healthcare, sustainability, and clean energy. Pepper Snapple, Frito-Lay PepsiCo, Pizza Hut, and Toyota North America.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 2, 2010

Donna Fenn highlights The Unreasonable Institute , a new incubator formed in Colorado for social entrepreneurs, at her blog: This year, the incubator's first, the founders vetted 33 candidates from 284. mechanism that covers costs. The growth of social enterprise continues in spite of, or maybe because of, the recession.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

But unlike other hobbies, unlike golf, or whatever else, or video games, or anything — like it doesn’t cost you money, it actually brings you money, so I think it’s pretty fun. John Jantsch: So, startup incubators are all the rage these days, do you ever see a side hustle incubator? I haven’t.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 20, 2011

In fact, at a time when we're facing severe youth unemployment in America and Europe, and the emerging markets are just starting to build their entrepreneurship eco-systems, we really need to think deeply on how more and more young people can be efficiently, rapidly and cost-effectively be trained in entrepreneurship.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Mixing metaphors, the attempt to accelerate the scaling process is a bit like asking a baby to be incubated in six months (dangerous). Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization. That is just lipstick on a pig.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Great lifestyle, great cost of living, motivated people and only the crap weather on the negative side. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. The ingredients are all here. The advantages of moving are more obvious.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

We work with leading colleges, universities and research institutes throughout North America and Europe to advance student entrepreneurship. No one is questioning the fact that tuition costs have spiraled out of control and that student debt has a retarding effect on entrepreneurship. Now I live on airplanes and the TGV train.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 11, 2017

The only difference is, our high-quality content is shot by the leading social media creators, crowd-sourced from around the globe, at a fraction of the cost a client would traditionally pay. May 2014 – InstaElite gets accepted to Ryerson University’s DMZ incubator (#1 in North America). Think; custom stock photography.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

Chile has decided that it wants to be an innovation hub in South America. Perhaps because the cost of a public failure is so high in Chile. Why will people from South America stream to Chile, besides its magnificent geography? In addition, in Chile the cost of personal failure is high. See below.).

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There are millions of small businesses in America, butonly a few thousand are startups. Till now, nearly all seed firms have been so-called "incubators,"so Y Combinator gets calledone too, though the only thing we have in common is that we investin the earliest phase. What is an incubator? No, not generally.A Im not sure myself.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

First, I wrote a post on Christmas Day 2015 sharing what happened to my startup after we were rejected by YCombinator, the renowned startup incubator in Silicon Valley. And at what cost? I never did find a VC to lead a round of funding for Localeur, but two things happened by the end of 2015.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Commits To International Growth, Enters Latin America With Ellas 2.0. This is an opportunity for business women to get away for the weekend, incubate ideas, rally resources, access peer mentoring, and network with other entrepreneurs. Startup Weekend. Workshops. -->. Recent Posts. At SXSW Interactive In Austin This Week! Monterey, CA.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2012

It’s easy to throw more money at problems, whether that means funding R&D, investing in startup incubators or accelerators, tax incentives or building campuses. Q: What are the biggest obstacles to replicating Silicon Valley’s success elsewhere? Hwang: Hardware is easy. Software is hard. Photo courtesy of T2 Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 14, 2021

It called out China as a peer competitor to America, pursuing its goal of global dominance. The DoD has over 75 incubators and accelerators. If you’re in the DoD and conversant with the National Defense and Military strategies and have read Chris Brose’s book The Kill Chain , none of this will come as a surprise.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Optimizing profit above else led to wholesale offshoring of manufacturing and entire industries in order to lower costs. We ran our economy on this theory as a bipartisan experiment in the U.S. for the last several decades. both commercially and militarily. Limits and Obstacles to China’s Dominance.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

He would know; he’s been backing tech start-ups since 1984, incubating at least one hen house full of millionaires.and probably a few empty ones. Take the Bank of America, once the largest bank in the world, whose signature office tower on California Street was briefly the tallest west of the Mississippi.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

And then also another investment that I’ve made through Greylock is Entrepreneur First, which is an incubator. And they’re like, well, all of these incubators all failed, why would we pick up the 70th one? Whether it’s Code for America, or Kiva, or other kinds of things kind of going in strong ways.

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