Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. 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). A year from now that’s projected to go as high as 100.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2010

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). The goal of most business incubators today is to strengthen the local economy, and commercialize new technologies. However, many research and technology parks also house incubation programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. 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). Two of these, Uber and Xiaomi, are already above $40 billion.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Incubators and Accelerators. Then we have startup platforms like incubators and accelerators. Accelerators and incubators support the startups with a small amount of funding, mentorship, networking opportunities, resources, and workspaces. ? Options for initial setup. ?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Early or embryonic stage.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 16, 2017

For example, The Embrace Warmer was created by asking mothers with premature babies what they disliked about traditional infant incubators in hospital maternity wards. No exit strategy for firing lazy co-founders. Second and even third rounds can enhance the final product’s popularity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant. universities entrepreneurs resources incubators funding startups investors'

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Before this class this team had spent three months in an incubator building the product after talking to only one customer. Exit Strategy. Exit Strategy was building the penultimate planning tool. a customer segment that was grabbing the product out of their hands.). If you can’t see the video click here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Early or embryonic stage.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2017

You can also use it again to fill in startup profiles on investment platforms such as Gust and AngelList or to apply for an incubator or a business plan competition. Mention your exit strategy. It might be a short document, often attached to an email, or simply a summary in an email.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Early or embryonic stage.

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Up and Running

MAY 4, 2015

Jackie Wu of Jackie, a company that makes flying security cameras and received funding after pitching an incubator, says: “The biggest thing is, you have to know what the problem you’re solving is and how your product/service will solve it. State your exit strategy. We articulated that very clearly to the investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). The incubator organization can help you find them, or show you how to apply for a government grant. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Early or embryonic stage.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Before this class this team had spent three months in an incubator building the product after talking to only one customer. Exit Strategy. Exit Strategy was building the penultimate planning tool. a customer segment that was grabbing the product out of their hands.). If you can’t see the video click here.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 16, 2010

He's is biased, of course, because he leads the 200+ company Y-Combinator incubator, but his predictions have already come true for many founders I know personally. Tags: Essays exit-strategy finance investment starting. Of course the VCs aren't happy about this. Is my argument healthy or too far the other way?

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

There’s non-profit organizations, and incubators, and accelerators, of like-minded people, and startup weekends are now global, and that’s a great place because everybody that goes there is interested in starting a business, and there’s usually a great mix of talent. Great okay, so now you’ve got your exit strategy.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

With angels were now talking about venture fundingproper, so its time to introduce the concept of exit strategy.Younger would-be founders are often surprised that investors expectthem either to sell the company or go public. Theyll only considercompanies that have an exit strategy—meaning companies that couldget bought or go public.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

MySpace was incubated by a small team of employees within Intermix in 2003 (Chris DeWolfe, Tom Anderson and four others). The early history of MySpace is inextricably intertwined with that of Intermix, a small-cap publicly traded Internet company in Los Angeles where I worked as corporate counsel from 2004-06.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team? Investors do what their money back.

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