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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, including lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find. Facilitates building skills and familiarity with new tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, like lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find. Low-cost design and fabrication tools are extremely valuable.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 2, 2019

It’s also the first company we’ve helped incubate! valuation – the first Version One unicorn! Kobalt is an exciting investment for us – it’s out first security investment (after looking for the right opportunity for some time). Other funding announcements and exits! Outreach raised a $114m Series E round at a $1.1b

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 2, 2018

Tech Stars is a documentary tv programme about start up tech companies who spend three months in a New York City business incubator. They live together rent-free in an apartment/tech incubator on condition that the landlord is entitled to a share in any business that is developed by the group. Tech Stars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Who would not want to joint the unicorns (recent startups with a current valuation of over $1 billion)? Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive. But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. Measuring progress with big data and analytics.

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Great news — your startup just got accepted to an incubator! But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. Pre-money valuations startups receive from incubators are typically low…really low.

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Gust

JUNE 17, 2012

Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers. 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.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

VC Valuation Methods Excel Model With Sensitivity VC tool stack (also check the European VC tech stack on this blog) List of 400+ accelerators and incubators 300 resources from YC library Venture capital resources. ?Online Sales, Marketing and customer success. Venture capital. Online education.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Look at the valuations of companies like Tesla, Illumina, and Twitter. The companies that can show “startup-like” growth rates of 50% plus per year will get stratospheric market valuations. Ask Sony about Samsung, ask any retailer about Amazon, any car company about Tesla, and any newspaper company about the web.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

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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Both Sides of the Table

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. There are times you just need help getting s**t done.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Many Asian entrepreneurs tell me that they want to raise funds from Silicon Valley firms because they perceive the valuations to be higher. SingTel Inno8 ), as well as one of the marquee cross-regional startup incubators, JFDI. Valuations are based more on typical later-stage type of metrics.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

On Wednesday, April 18th, I gave a keynote speech on US Startup Valuation Trends for the 1st Irish Angel Meetup. We arrived from Moscow on April 25th; the following day, I spoke on Raising Money to Go Global at StartSmart , a conference held at an incubator and innovation center named Technopolis Ülemiste.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds. Read on for a fuller explanation. by February 2006).

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Launch48 is a new kind of micro-incubator taking place over the course of a weekend, which enables entrepreneurs to pitch their concept in one minute, in order to find team mates who are interested in pursuing the idea. For consumer web startups, the more traction you show, the better valuation you will get. Who to raise from?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 8, 2012

As college graduation weekends and summer business incubator announcements loom, I thought I would take a few minutes to consider the connection between the entrepreneurship and academia. Entrepreneurs, by definition, take an idea or a concept and strive to make that idea into a operating business. Academics review one another’s work.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

Additional work in figuring out the precise go-to-market consumer, academic institution, or enterprise - each is a different business), and consequent business model and pricing model will help enhance the company's valuation. The game set retails online at $49.95, and about 2,000 unites have already been sold.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Why not go further, develop more valuation, customer experience, and really, deeply validate the business? In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

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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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

There is additional encouraging news for aspiring entrepreneurs on many fronts, just in case you are thinking about joining the existing ranks: Valuations of successful startups have hit an all-time high. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, like lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find. Low-cost design and fabrication tools are extremely valuable.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

How can either of you confidently give a valuation of a business that doesn’t make money? If you don’t believe me, listen to Geoff Ralston, President of legendary startup incubator Y Combinator : “Investors need persuading. Along those same lines, revenue also makes investor negotiations much easier to navigate.

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David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

Entrepreneurs please click here.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

At Science , a start-up incubator where Morgan worked, information about winning experiments that one start-up had tried were shared so others could also consider them. Some companies have made the mistake of relying so heavily on the Facebook News Feed that such a change has been life-threatening. Taking Moonshots.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I’m surprised how few people talk about valuations, term sheet terms, how much to pay recruiters, etc. These kinds of office space arrangement are often called “technology incubators&# or “startup labs&# or something similar. Anyone have positive or negative experience in such an incubator?

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

Crowdify also has its own Start-Up Incubator and is uniquely positioned to advise the next generation of potential UK Unicorns (start-ups which reach a market valuation of $1bn). And that’s what Crowdify is all about,” says James Rix, the 36-year old entrepreneur and CEO of Crowdify.

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Gust

JULY 19, 2014

I’d suggest that you browse through the Gust investor search engine for investment groups (and accelerators, incubators, business plan competitions, et al) that are relevant to your startup (by location, industry, type of organization, etc.), and read their detailed profiles to see if they would be a good match for your venture.

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Jason Ball

JUNE 16, 2020

Classmates that started companies, work at startups or are in incubators, accelerators, etc. Professors of computer science, entrepreneurship or business (I’ve given talks at schools before), next up are incubators and accelerators themselves. Tip 3: Valuation. Your response rate will be much better.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

A number of these companies had significant financing events this year, including: TaskRabbit: Incubated out of ZipCar, raised over $22M from Floodgate, First Round, Shasta, and Lightspeed. And a little less relevant is DropBox, part of Cambridge Y-Combinator class back in 2007, this year raised over $250M at ~$4B valuation.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

You have to be prepared for the grueling rigors of fundraising and repeated rejections, and difficult negotiations over valuation. Meng Weng Wong is co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia , which he helped started in 2010 to bring the TechStars model of startup incubation to Southeast Asia. You will experience challenges.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2018

(@JoshuaBaer) | Twitter kelsi (@kelskamin) | Twitter Nick Spiller (@Nick_Spiller) | Twitter Can an Accelerator or Incubator Jumpstart your Startup? Tuesday April 3 @ 10:30 AM Ross Tower Techstars Startup Week Dallas 2018: Can an Accelerator or Incubator Jumpstar. Tech M&A Exits?—?How

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 6, 2021

valuation. . Arweave announced its incubator, the Open Web Foundry. SilviaTerra closed a $4.4M seed round; you can learn more about their mission from TechCrunch and our own blog post. And Manifold joined the Snyk team that just raised $300M at a $4.7B Product Launches and Updates. Stacks 2.0.7 is now released!

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