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A Crash Course In Startup Labs: What Every Tech Entrepreneur Needs To Know

YoungUpstarts

A Startup Lab invests guidance, strategy, and takes equity in a carefully selected collection of early and seed stage startups. A talented group of specialists including engineers, designers, financial analysts, and lawyers are assigned to develop various facets of the company’s framework. What is a Startup Lab?

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My Criteria for Investing in Startups

Diego Basch

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. I recently attended a Demo Day for a well-known incubator. 3) Hey, why didn’t I start that company?

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JFDI.Asia Accelerator: Bootcamp Practicalities

YoungUpstarts

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Better to decide now that you would rather pursue a career path in engineering than in entrepreneurship. In the US, seed accelerators offer more than $100,000 to startups. Advice For The Young At Heart accelerator incubator JFDI Asia Singapore startup'

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Nashville

ReadWriteStart

There's a pipeline of talent here although echoing what we hear in a lot of places, there's always a need for "more engineers.". Incubating and Training for Startups and Small Businesses. Nashville's seed-stage microfund Jumpstart Foundry recently made a pivot to become a full-fledged tech business incubator.

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The New Venture Landscape

K9 Ventures

Instead, it was more of a result of over-funding at the seed stage. There was simply too much money coming in to the seed stage, which increased the supply of companies at the seed stage. Top engineering talent today has a bimodal distribution. Series C/D is the new Mezzanine.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

The Seed round is larger — closer to and sometimes upwards of $2M. The Series A is now the fourth round of funding for a company — the first is usually friends and family, or an incubator (~$50K), then pre-seed (~$500K), then seed (~$2M), then Series A (~$6M-$15M). A Pre-Seed company certainly hasn’t met the same bar.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Nonprofits And For-profits

ReadWriteStart

He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. You can't tell what the company does.