Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 16, 2018

Lifograph CEO Dea Wilson is a serial entrepreneur and Managing Director at the Silicon Valley Incubator. She is also an Angel Investor at the Wharton Alumni Angels and Tech Angels, her investment interest being in consumer, mobile and SaaS startups.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

In the first post , we drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. As you develop your product, you must concurrently invest in market-engineering tasks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Angel investors. Partner with distributor or beneficiary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

Join a startup incubator. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Angel investors. Partner with distributor or beneficiary.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub. Despite all these advantages, it seems that the foreign investors are still reluctant to invest in seed and early stage projects. The next step would be to secure funding.

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Gust

JUNE 17, 2012

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Angel investors. Partner with distributor or beneficiary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. Angel investors. Partner with beneficiary company.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. We’d also like to highlight two notable investors who participated in our first close: David Johnston began investing in Bitcoin in 2012.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Among many other insights, he offers a perspective on several myths of entrepreneurship, which I can now paraphrase and prioritize based on my own experience: A real startup needs investors to get off the ground. In fact, research by Fundable shows that less than one percent of all startups are funded by venture capital and angel investors.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

But the right funding strategy for her is $900,000-$1 million, potentially from angel investors or small funds. In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series. We will work on that with her. Trendy Loot.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I recently wrote a blog post that I believe is worth pointing out in the context of the strategy roundtables: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects? I'd like to hear from venture capitalists, angel investors, incubators, and accelerators on this topic. CricketWeekly.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

Whether I like it or not I’m an angel investor , even though I prefer a different label. As an electrical engineer and software developer with decades of experience building internet infrastructure, there are certain areas where I believe I could contribute much more than the puny sums that I can invest.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

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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Austin Startup

JUNE 16, 2017

And according to this Fortune article , Austin’s formula for success is clear: “create an environment with the right pieces, including investors, good business schools, incubators, not too much red tape, and a critical mass of people with a business idea and big aspirations.” Famigo, FAVOR , and WP Engine.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Since that time we've seen a massive change from product engineering to financial engineering. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2013

Small businesses are the economic engine that drives the U.S. Many times basic legal or accounting questions can be answered at no cost or at a minimal cost through a firm that works with a local incubator, accelerator or small business organization. by Natalie Gonzalez, co-founder and head of marketing and social media at Chatalog.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. Other than “I’ll know it when I see it”, there’s no formal way for an investor to assess project maturity or quantify risks.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. Accelerators & Fellowships : CITY Accelerators , Social Innovation Lab , Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design Fellowship ; Yale Canaan Fellowship. Incubate non-Yalies.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

My partner is a full-time developer and math teacher, and I’m an engineer. They are frequently confused with incubator programs, but the two are technically different. Accelerators focus on early-stage startups, while incubators are geared toward later-stage startups. Incubators. Coding the site was straightforward.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

this post is all about the resilience required to keep going as an entrepreneur, not as an angel investor. Michael and Mark are business savants, just like Michelangelo was an art and engineering savant (by the way, I’m pretty sure Michelangelo would have made a damn good entrepreneur in this day and age). But I digress?—?this

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VC Cafe

JUNE 20, 2011

More and more incubators are popping up, students are participating in business plan competitions, and actively look to get involved with startups. Funding comes largely from angel investors and government grants. The HackFwd model has a lot of potential here: give entrepreneurial engineer a year of salary to startup a company.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Micro-VC: The Artist Formerly Known as “Super Angel” The “Micro-VC” funds (also known by the misnomer “Super Angel funds”), started as far back as the mid-90s with Ron Conway and earlier incarnations of his SV Angel fund.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 6, 2011

An incubatee with Indian Angel Network, Anirudh Motwani from New Delhi, India, discussed IndiaCollegeSearch , a vertical search engine to address the problem of finding detailed information about various colleges and institutions in India. IndiaCollegeSearch. What a great product - truly an excellent value for entrepreneurs.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2011

We also had two other entrepreneurs who are working with the William Factory Incubator in Tacoma, Washington. The company has bootstrapped using services, a philosophy we espouse heavily in 1M/1M, and has simultaneously gathered a group of angel investors who are supporting it through the next phase. Wise Mind Studios LLC.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some angel investors are looking for exactly the same thing as what VCs are looking for. In other words, these are angels looking for billion dollar opportunities as well.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

According to David Rose , CEO of Gust, venture capital investors funded about 1500 startups last year, with Angel investors backing over 50,000 more. Of course, with more startups, this is still a tough space, with VCs funding only one out of 400 requests they get, and Angels limiting their focus to one out of 40.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

The AWS teams are staffed by former startup founders and investors, as well as business development professionals who assist the efforts of startups, venture capital funds, angel investors, accelerators, incubators and startup-supporting organizations globally. These efforts range from physical infrastructure to content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

According to Statistic Brain , angel investors, numbering almost 300,000, contributed a record $25 billion to early-stage startups in the U.S. With more startups, angels still limit their focus to about one out of 40 requests. Smartphone apps can be built for less than $10K, so who needs an investor?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We sat down for an hour to talk about why what GaiKai built was able to overcome its much better funded rival and to dispel the myth that great engineering teams don’t exist in Southern California. GaiKai had 50 such engineers, which was a large part of its success. Everyone follow him @scottedwalker.

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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.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Business, Engineering, Computer Science, and Design were all represented. We need a program that not only has a speaker series and mentor program, but also fosters collaboration among the Engineering and Business departments. Collaboration with engineering, computer science, life sciences, etc. May 14, 2010 10:56 PM.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2011

The Lightspeed Summer Program is NOT an incubator, nor was it ever intended to be. For example: I learned in Year 1 that teams without engineers didn’t accomplish much in the 10 week time frame. We are not looking to fund companies out of the program. I promise.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

I shared it with incubators from Ghana to Nairobi , at the White House Treasury Department, and in Indonesia with business and government leaders on a delegation I was asked to participate in by the US State Department. A handful of local VCs and angel investors (primarily from the financial sector) funded the startups.

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