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JUNE 17, 2012

Just don’t quit your day job before your new company is producing revenue. Startup incubators. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Bootstrapping Venture Capital Incubator 164

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JULY 8, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Super Angels.

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Early Stage Finance Seed Stage Entrepreneur 177

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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.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98