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Be Coachable

Austin Startup

If you have the entrepreneurial itch and managed to graduate without taking advantage of these wonderful university programs, or perhaps you’re a few years older and preceded them, you still have access to incubators and accelerators in every high tech hub around the country. Residency in a quality incubator is a plus.

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The Startup Factories, How Incubators Are Shaping Entrepreneurs [Report]

VC Cafe

Startup incubators have grown in double digits in the last couple of years. Following the success of Ycombinator and TechStars, in recent years we have seen literally hundreds of regional incubators set up in the rest of the US and Europe , across campuses and within vertical industries, such as mobile or finance.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Parallel6 is already clocking over $1 million in revenue and is looking to enhance its customer acquisition and also raise some financing. I suggested going for larger companies and also to pick some verticals where the value proposition really shines through. Statisco Economic Analytics.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

ReadWriteStart

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. He is looking for financing for the show. And that is what I advised J.J.

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Interview with eFounders

Cracking the Code

I was recently interviewed by the team of eFounders , the new Parisian SaaS start-up incubator founded by Thibaud Elzière (Fotolia) and Quentin Nickmans. They also need VCs capable of financing their entire life cycle — on average, SaaS startups raise between $80 and $100 million before an IPO.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Premium Lounge Sneak Preview

ReadWriteStart

Benson's business needs $500,000 to get off the ground, buy a machine, and meet the operating expenses, and he primarily came to discuss his financing options. My assessment is that this is not a traditional venture financing type deal. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Three Open Opportunities For 2012

ReadWriteStart

Some vertical ad networks have gone after this opportunity, Glam Media being one of the most successful of the lot. However, you would need to know how to sell $25 to $50 CPMs, because at $4 to $5 CPMs, there is no money for anybody, not for the network and not for the publisher. It's just not worth it.

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