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MARCH 30, 2011
You hire people too fast, you over build your products, you try to force market adoption and you do PR blitzes before your product is really ready for prime time. And they seem to have been going really slow in building out the team and you certainly don’t see a ton of too-early PR blitzes from them.
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MARCH 25, 2016
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? That marketing can be PR or SEO or influencer distribution or other forms of “unpaid” marketing. But you should.
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APRIL 20, 2010
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. new features need to be rolled into PR strategies and competitor analyses. - I don’t believe it.
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JANUARY 22, 2014
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. Connections?
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JULY 21, 2014
We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. And importantly we’ve had revenue. What their initial feedback has been?
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JULY 11, 2010
These kinds of office space arrangement are often called “technology incubators&# or “startup labs&# or something similar. These are not to be confused with incubators like YCombinator or IdeaLab which look to invest in your company and take equity positions. Anyone have positive or negative experience in such an incubator?
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MARCH 11, 2011
IdeaLab has a philosophy that if they can get a centralized group of expert staff to help with legal, accounting, recruiting, PR, etc. Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups. This has been their formula for nearly 15 years.
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