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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

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. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

Oakland 329
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Putting yourself out there! (part 2)

Austin Startup

Sprung in stealth mode! After our third hour-long coaching call, Matt offered to continue the weekly sessions so we became a kind of Pitch 101 incubator. I could not have picked a better bunch of people to share my early Thursday mornings with. How did you hear about us? My kids are now 9 and 12, so I totally get it!”

Texas 48
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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

Peter and Jonathan discuss startup incubators, and our guest Caroline talks to us about the “F” word and 10 reasons why startups fail. Startup Incubators – (2:13). Read also: Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. Peter: Joe talks a little bit about this idea of incubators.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups.

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Bitesize Friday – Israeli Funding Recap

VC Cafe

The combination of companies looking for capital and investors looking for liquidity put a strain on early stage start ups but seemed to have played favourably for growth equity investments and later stage companies. Genesis Partners Ltd. Benchmark Capital; Bessemer Venture Partners; Mangrove Capital Partners.

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New Year, New Fund

Seeing Both Sides

When we started Flybridge over thirteen years ago, we developed a firm mission statement that we would treat early stage founders as our valued customers and have lived by this mission throughout our history. In our experience, great entrepreneurs don’t want to be hatched, incubated, promoted or optioned.