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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

Three types of organizations – Incubators, Accelerators and Venture Studios – have emerged to reduce the risk of early-stage startup failure by helping teams find product/market fit and raise initial capital. Venture studios create startups by incubating their own ideas or ideas from their partners. Reducing Startup Risk.

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10,000 Startups – Startup Weekend Next

Steve Blank

A partnership of Startup Weekend , Startup America , TechStars and Udacity , Startup Weekend Next brings four weeks of amazing hands-on training learning to build your startup to cities around the world. It doesn’t take equity and just has a small fee that varies by city ($140 to $299), to cover event operations and expenses.

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Endeavor Miami Takes on Scaleup Challenge

The Startup Magazine

Across the world, work spaces, maker spaces, incubators, and accelerators are opening, expanding, and making an impact on their communities, and beyond. Endeavor Miami is uniquely positioned to bridge the US to Latin America, which gives them the potential for a far-reaching impact. They must scale their businesses.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

And I believe that strength of the Y Combinator movement in America has been exactly this: take incredibly talented technologist who have a passion for an idea, let them launch it and let’s see what they produce and what the market reaction to this product will be.

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Meet EvoNexus - the Country's Only Free Startup Incubator

ReadWriteStart

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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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit. – Incubating companies. The companies receiving venture capital do not look like the rest of America. – Quantitative investing.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit. – Incubating companies. The companies receiving venture capital do not look like the rest of America. – Quantitative investing.