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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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It’s interesting to me that two of the most talented tech leaders of our era – Bill Gross & Paul Graham – have both opted for a model of incubation to encourage young tech entrepreneurs to build disruptive businesses.

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My Pal Dave: A Triumph of Substance Over Style

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Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. He had a philosophy that the future competition for startups would be design led and based on data analysis. Sounds obvious. My pal Dave has very loyal friends in the VC world who would go to bat for him any time. I’m one of them.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. So by now you should know your industry’s market size & structure. But you should.

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Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering?

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I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. I don’t believe it. Either your core is innately technical or it’s not.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. SEO marketing vs. social marketing.

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Want to Work in VC? Here’s How

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He heads their business development practice and they have been very active in incubating, investing in and helping grow LA startups. Wait a second, what’s this CAA logo all about? Are you merging? My friend Michael Yanover & I were speaking. His office is right across the street from mine.

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

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Several funds and firms are participating in this investment including Rincon Ventures , Idealab ( Bill Gross built the original incubator and there will be active support from Allen Morgan ), Baroda Ventures , GRP Partners , David Cohen (founder of TechStars ), David Tisch (founder of TechStars NY ), DLA Piper and Stubbs Alderton.