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Comparing Startup Accelerators

Austin Startup

Ask the Users Startup Accelerators: Bundled and Unbundled Over the past several years, accelerators have emerged as a powerful filtering and signaling mechanism in early-stage startup ecosystems, allowing high-potential young startups to connect with investors, advisors, and other strategic partners far faster and more efficiently than before.

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19 Psychological Tactics for Successful Crowdfunding Campaigns

ConversionXL

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. Strategy: Convey Your Reputation. You also need to convey your personal background and reputation. How can you reveal your reputation? Before launching your campaign, build your community reputation. Equity-based – Equity returns (e.g.,

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Conference Notes on Sourcing Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity

David Teten

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. View more presentations. Intermediaries.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. Never in the history of venture capital have early stage startups had access to so much capital. If you over-fund the industry, aggregate returns fall.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013).