Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Startup studios continue to grow in popularity as incubators for new businesses. Forming a digital agency that performs work for clients in addition to incubating startups provides a host of advantages compared to a singularly-focused startup studio. These can then be repeated and improved on with each successive startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

All too often, founders fall in love with their products or technology, ignore negative feedback from customers, and spend years building a product based on a vision that no one else shares. and leading incubators such as Y Combinator , are already on this one. Process myth: Why building a product leads to failure. Marty Zwilling.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

In the Q&A, Bill Gordon introduced himself as one of the principals of the Stamford Innovation Center, an incubator being formed in Connecticut. This is an interesting trend we're seeing as we connect with incubators around the world. Bill has been following the 1M/1M project and would like to connect his partners to our team.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

In addition, Amazon launched two dedicated funds: Alexa Startups – The Alexa Startups team engages founders and investors through startup programs, business development, and technical support. AWS Startups Blog – Head here for insights on startup related topics and guest posts from startup founders/leaders. Physical space.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2024

Uniswap announced its first program, Uniswap Hook Incubator, an 8-week program to help devs build hooks (v4’s flagship feature). with participation from Figma Ventures and founders of leading engineering-driven companies. You can read more about the token, airdrop and other details in their post: Announcing ETHFI. You can apply here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2023

Research shows that such insights are actually the result of hard prior work on the problem, usually followed by time to incubate in the subconscious mind as we connect threads, before the ideas pop out as new innovations. This myth arises from the fact that new ideas can sometimes seem to appear as a flash of insight. Breed myth.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

A new incubator program, Imagine K12 , launched today in Palo Alto aimed specifically at building entrepreneurship in the education space. According to Imagine K12 co-founder Alan Louise, "We believe there is a perfect storm of factors making it the right time to launch our effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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SiliconHills

JANUARY 22, 2024

In the latest Ideas to Invoices podcast episode, Nilima Achwal, founder of The Female Founders Lab, provides insights from her entrepreneurial journal. She also launched and ran SEED, a social enterprise incubation program at Villgro […]

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by Melvin Wong , founder of Kodorra. This is why it is especially important for startup founders to seek help to guide them through the tedious and often perilous process of starting and growing a company. Incubators, on the other hand, are focused on building the entrepreneurship foundation of first-time entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 20, 2020

For some more context on this, see the email I sent to Dani Grant and Mohd Irtefa , Jam’s co-founders, right before we invested. . Dani and Irtefa are two incredible examples of mission-driven founders. Yes, there are many collaboration tools out there. But here’s why we’re particularly excited about Jam… .

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

To confidently answer no, co-founder of Strategyzer Alex Osterwalder told our attendees, “What you really want to do is work more like Amazon. … You’re kind of looking for founders,” not friends, remarked Jeff. “If The reason Amazon [is invincible] is because they've put a system in place that allows them to continuously innovate.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

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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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The class teaches founders how to dramatically reduce their failure rate through the combination of business model design, customer development and agile development using the Startup Owners Manual. The Big Idea – Incubators – Accelerators – and Something New. Think of incubators as “shelter from the storm.”.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

From day one, the founders believe that their vision can change the world. This insight has begun to change how we teach entrepreneurship, incubate startups and fund them. Social entrepreneurs are no less ambitious, passionate, or driven to make an impact than any other type of founder. Buyable Startup s: Born to Flip.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2020

Venture firms wanted to meet talented Black founders but didn’t know where to start to find them. In fact, one of the biggest criticisms I personally get when I suggest that founders should “get introductions to VCs” is that this might reinforce existing racial imbalances by providing easier access to White professionals than people of color.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading startup accelerators with over 50 partners in 22 countries. Founders Space was ranked the #1 incubator for overseas startups by Forbes and Entrepreneur Magazines. 18:05] How does the Founder Space operate? [20:21] He's the CEO of founders space.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 16, 2023

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. At a glance Founder: Chris Muller Business: Altitude Conservation Founded: 2018 HQ: Manawatu Can you tell us a bit about your business?

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

I've had several Startup CTO Consulting sessions recently where it became apparent that the Founder needed help with the business and product as much or more than the technology. From Why Every Startup Founder Needs a Mentor - And How to Find One Don’t just fall in love with someone’s reputation, perceived celebrity or name.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

All too often, founders fall in love with their products or technology, ignore negative feedback from customers, and spend years building a product based on a vision that no one else shares. and leading incubators such as Y Combinator , are already on this one. Process myth: Why building a product leads to failure. Marty Zwilling.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 25, 2020

Here are ten entrepreneur podcasts every founder should listen to. Hosted by Sam Altman and a variety of other people from noted incubator Y Combinator. The post 10 Entrepreneur Podcasts Every Founder Should Listen To appeared first on ReadWrite. Image Credit: Andrea Piacquadio; Pexels.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2012

As a Silicon Valley attorney and founder of technology incubator StartWorks , Montgomery has participated in many tech startups and has a natural interest in what makes them succeed. Montgomery explores this concept in depth in his new book, Great From the Start: How Conscious Corporations Attract Success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Thus, I was happy to see some real actionable advice on this challenge in a new book, “ The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed ,” by Linda Yates, the founder and CEO of a leading growth incubator for global businesses. Commit a source of internal or external seed funding.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The founders were simply wrong about their assumptions about customer needs. It turns out the term “visionary founder” was usually a synonym for someone who was hallucinating. Founders Need to Run the Company Longer. So, almost like clockwork 20 th century startups fired the innovators/founders when they scaled.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

So we built our own tools to enable founders to rapidly translate their vision into hypotheses and then into validated facts. To be truly successful at ambidexterity firms must master the new skills of ideation, incubation, and scaling. Recognizing the anomaly was just the first step.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. The post 500 Founders: Rick Kiessig, Hannah Hunt, Matthew Jackson & Jenni Matheson appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine. Rick Kiessig – Cofounder.

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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. ? You must understand that you, as a founder, must gel with the investor.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

My recent years have included many thousands of hours of mentoring, coaching, advising, teaching, and encouraging startup founders with prospective ventures across a wide range of disciplines. In those situations, I have watched over business issues and opportunities so the founders have been able to stay focused on their visions.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

In comparison to traditional business ventures, startups are expected to grow rapidly, at a rate of between 5% and 7% per week in their initial stage – Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator. This is especially true for those teams or individuals that become a part of an accelerator or incubator program.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech.

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