Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

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). Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. Smartphone apps can be built for less than $10K, so who needs an investor?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

These resources are definitely are not limited to students, since every university wants and needs the real world exposure and experience of entrepreneurs who already have credibility in the marketplace. I’m involved with their community outreach program as well.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2013

It would definitely help, but in the absence of a great deal of experience in a particular arena, the best “shortcut” is to find “mentors” that can guide you. Your nearby community banker is a good start. Check to see if your area has a local “incubator” complex or development center.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This three day conference has become the “must-attend” event for anyone who is active or new to the startup-community. Immerse yourself in the tech community at Techweek. After taking Inside Bitcoins to Las Vegas this past winter, this definitive Bitcoin event is returning to New York City, April 7-8 at the Javits Convention Center.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

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). Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. Smartphone apps can be built for less than $10K, so who needs an investor?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

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). Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. Smartphone apps can be built for less than $10K, so who needs an investor?

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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. I see an opportunity in spotting innovation in these markets and globalizing their products and there’s also a gap in micro seed funding. But that is now changing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

They're going to look to see what impact you had in your community. 11:59) Giving people trust and autonomy and opening lines of communication as a leader, and how Mark's leadership has evolved. (14:16) 22:13) The way companies treat employees and customers and impact their communities now will them for decades to come.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

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). Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates. Smartphone apps can be built for less than $10K, so who needs an investor?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Richard Witten , is a former General Partner at Goldman Sachs with with 35+ years of experience in the global capital marketplace. On the alumni side, we set up an incubator downtown, called the Columbia Startup Lab. … I thought it was worth 5% and that was definitely something where there wasn’t total alignment.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment. Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Tech community" seemed too much about people soldering things together and writing code. 33 Flatbush. Picture: Benjamin Norman for The New York Times.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2011

These countries are great models of countries too small to sustain startups of scale on just domestic consumption yet have managed to create innovation with a global reach. Finally, it wasn’t clear if everyone was on the same page; that for a Chilean startup to scale it was going to have to reach past Chile and go global.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

A finalist in Hyper-Connected Communities , which will pitch at 5 pm Saturday, March 9, UbiGro is a nanotech-enabled greenhouse film by UbiQD, Inc. In October, UbiQD was one of the five selected companies for the Wells Fargo Incubator program. that red-shifts the sun’s spectrum for improved crop yield and quality. Plants love it.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Each one starts from a different place and a different definition of that. Q: Enterprise by definition is settled law. Any company that’s gotten that big has a definite way of doing things and a definite way of deciding what new things they’re going to do. I think that’s where you can get some value.

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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. Those were teachers, accountants, consultants, entrepreneurs, and community leaders. Most definitely. Those were friends and families.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Almost every large organization has some kind of incubator or accelerator program. And this has created a global entrepreneurial ecosystem. At the time, we were definitely in the shallow-end. And in the same way it’s equally important for the company to authentically connect with the startup community.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Last Friday, June 21st I sent the following message out to our community of users, colleagues, friends and supporters. Said another way, JuiceBox Hero is older than this leading incubator of ECE innovation. <?—?That’s So, if you’re into that, get in touch: Youssef Chaker & Breck Baig are amazing resources in the tech community.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Create a strong brand, solid social community, sell advertising. I’ve been reaching out to such users in the startup community and have gotten very positive feedback so far. Whatever you want but it’ll definitely effect conversions. 2) yes, join an incubator, (1) Read this [link]. What are the other essentials?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. This is definitely a stretch, but ananyms — words spelled backwards — are useful if you’re running out of ideas. Global Syndication Partners. October 4, 2012 by Cezary Pietrzak. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Naming your startup is definitely a challenging process! Mashable’s 20 million unique visitors and 6 million social media followers have become one of the most engaged online news communities. Global Syndication Partners.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Ning Communities. On-line Communities. Incubator List/ Local Startup Resources/ Startup Q&A. List of Startup Incubators. The Funded : TheFunded.com is an online community of entrepreneurs to research, rate, and review funding sources worldwide. Google Groups. Forms/Surveys. Google Forms. Survey Monkey.

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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? What can the tech community do to help? It happens a little bit more on the enterprise side.

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