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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Corporations running internal incubators face many of the same selection issues as startup investors, plus they must grapple with the issues of integrating new ideas into existing P&L-driven functions or business units. data that investors, accelerators and incubators can use to inform selection.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

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Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

We curate and aggregate a collection of talented made-to-measure designer brands who showcase their garments in our integrated marketplace platform. Balodana enables women to shop on one site for hundreds of diverse styles that will be made exactly to their body measurements. This experience will be as easy as traditional e-commerce.

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Technical Review Software Review Illinois Due Diligence 153

Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Soon thereafter, Breadcrumbs was accepted into San Diego’s tech incubator, EvoNexus. Other tabs: Recent News (aggregate of business’ social media), Events (one-time events), and Menu (a business menu/offerings). After winning Startup Weekend and a Qualcomm hackathon, Qualcomm Labs invested $50,000 in the company.

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San Diego Startup Social Media Technical Review 58

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you.

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Liquidity Event SEC Accredited Investor Angel Investor 184

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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Incubator Entrepreneur New York City Silicon Valley 147

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. One thing to make clear, StartupRoar is a jump off point.

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Intellectual Property Aggregator Startup IP 175

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

We made clear that this class wasn’t an incubator. By aggregating user-generated speed and location data, Blink will provide instantaneously generated traffic-enabled maps, optimal routing, estimated time-to-arrival and predictive itinerary services to personal and corporate users.

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Soon thereafter, Breadcrumbs was accepted into San Diego’s tech incubator, EvoNexus. Other tabs: Recent News (aggregate of business’ social media), Events (one-time events), and Menu (a business menu/offerings). After winning Startup Weekend and a Qualcomm hackathon, Qualcomm Labs invested $50,000 in the company.

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San Diego Startup Social Media Technical Review 40

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

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Costa Rica America Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 13, 2019

EFFICIENCY, OPERATIONS & MAINTENANCE – Digitizing operational activities is an opportunity to aggregate more accurate data (from customers, infrastructures and facilities) which can then be used to improve efficiency.

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Columbus Ohio Technical Review Startup 113

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2011

That’s also how Anand Singh and Harveen Narulla felt, and that is why they founded GreenBills Pte Ltd, the technology start-up behind e-bill aggregation solution GreenPost. Singh and Narulla believe they have found the answer, and that is: aggregated e-billing. Not to mention, it’s a massive waste of paper. The Journey.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you.

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Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Stock 219

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Those numbers are likely conservative. November 29, 2012.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you.

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Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you.

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Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur 120

The Next Web

JUNE 17, 2012

There’s Muchbeta , a nicely named Web applications company that is building a nifty news aggregation app for the iPad called Niiiws. I learned about initiatives like government-funded business incubator Startup Lisboa , Beta-i and the Lisbon Startup Pirates.

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Portugal San Francisco Aggregator Startup 167

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. The Amazon AWS-led revolution of startup innovation has led to a massive increase in the aggregate number of startups. The Blurring of Investment Lines.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

Examples of these applications include: remote patient monitoring, analytics/big data (aggregation and analysis of clinical, administrative or economic data), hospital administration (software tools to run a hospital), electronic health records (clinical data capture), and wellness (improve/monitor health of individuals).

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Startup Venture Capital Lean IPO 294

ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2018

The company’s growth is largely thanks to its collaborators – Travelport, its first investor and incubator, lead investor 7 Gate Ventures, and Real Venture. It aggregates listings in over 200 countries from the likes of Expedia, Booking.com, and Airbnb, along with other alternative types of accommodation, into an embeddable widget.

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Widget France Canada Aggregator 64

VC Cafe

JULY 15, 2011

We wrote about the VentureGeeks incubator on VC Cafe a few months ago, and its plans to set up a $2 million early stage fund making pre-seed investments. They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates. The engine can also correct the problem as it is detected using a SaaS platform.

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Incubator Startup Florida 99

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

Incubators and Accelerators : Incubators and accelerators have to a large extent replaced the funding from friends and family. The incubators and accelerators are investing $15-$50K in a large number of early stage teams (the current YC class has 60+ teams !). Incubator / Accelerator. <$50K in aggregate.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

They have aggregated talent into similar locations to learn from each other and made it easier for high-profile mentors to meet many companies at once. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. These golden days won’t last forever and neither with the accelerator boom. Quality endures.

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Early Stage Venture Capital Los Angeles Coder 290

Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Be sure you understand how to make every aspect of the business repeatable and scalable: aggregation, ingredient purchasing, production, fulfillment, customer experience and customer retention. Shen Tong, Food Future Incubator. Shen Tong, Food Future Incubator. Unit economics doesn’t just mean the gross margin.

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Balance Sheet Incubator Cofounder Salary 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2019

As a two-sided marketplace, Migo also helps partners and cities better understand multi-modal transit usage and demand patterns by delivering aggregate data down to a neighborhood level. Migo aggregates multiple ride types and partners so when you enter your destination, you can see the location and the price for each type of ride.

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Startup Seattle Aggregator Denver 49

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. Tech Channels ▾ Cleantech ›. Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. View More in Cleantech ›.

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San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

HouseCall was recently accepted to the latest cohort of startups at EvoNexus , the business incubator of CommNexus. We’re aggregating commercial content on tablets and phones. We provide tools for service providers to manage their mobile workflow, while also connecting them to the HouseCall marketplace. via website].

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San Diego Founder Cofounder Stock 69

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Kevin Rose at TechCrunch , April 20, 2009: Digg founder Kevin Rose almost sold his wildly popular aggregator to Google in 2008, and subsequently turned his resources toward creating a much stronger independent business instead. Jane Chen at Social Capital Markets , Dec.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

It was an incubator. It was a very small incubator in Fresno. And what Onward is endeavoring to do is both aggregate that information, but also organize it for the individual who's living through traumatic unemployment. I would pull cables, I would connect networks, I would build websites, I would form teams.

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VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. Looking at the aggregated list gives a quick sense of what funds are actively making investments.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity 98

VC Cafe

JULY 6, 2010

T he second quarter of 2010 has come and gone and despite the depleting VC and incubator capital in Israel, the quarter has brought approximately 40 deals with over $400 million invested. Looking at the aggregated list gives a quick sense of what funds are actively making investments.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity 98

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Incubator List/ Local Startup Resources/ Startup Q&A. List of Startup Incubators. Israeli Center of Incubators. aggregation. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. VC Experts. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Founder Equity Issues. Fred Wilson Advice and spreadsheet. Venture Hacks equity section. Startup Resources â??

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. The Series A is now the fourth round of funding for a company — the first is usually friends and family, or an incubator (~$50K), then pre-seed (~$500K), then seed (~$2M), then Series A (~$6M-$15M). Q: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 24, 2014

Every single topic about running a company has been written about ad nauseum, there are incubators, accelorators, mentoring programs, events, talks, etc. Aggregating these types of fund investors would make fundraising a lot easier. These days, there are a ton of options for you if you''re a startup seeking guidence.

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Venture Capital Deal Flow Aggregator Incubator 134