Cost Finance Incubator PR 
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 11, 2011
He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. That gave Google a huge cost advantage. IdeaLab has a philosophy that if they can get a centralized group of expert staff to help with legal, accounting, recruiting, PR, etc.
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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Up and Running
AUGUST 29, 2016
Many students’ college experiences are getting a makeover; frat parties are replaced with finance meetings, and kegs with KPIs. Both trips were organized by my school and cost me less than I would have spent doing them on my own. See Also: How to Find a Mentor.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2011
If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. This led to an explosion in startups. The Blurring of Investment Lines.
500hats.com
AUGUST 2, 2012
The major change Josh and his team recognized was that startup costs were dropping dramatically in post-crash early 2000s, and by investing in a larger # of smaller seed rounds at $250K-$1M, rather than fewer / later Series A rounds at $2-5M, they could capture more winners & success earlier in the funding lifecycle.
steveblank.com
JULY 8, 2011
Managewith.us - Collaborative Task Manager Mavenlink - manage project communications, documents, schedules, budgets, payments Industrial Logic – Agile eLearning Misc Office Help Google Apps – cloud mail server, calendar, docs, etc.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
I took a job in corporate finance as an intern my junior year at First Interstate Bank and I did system design on the side, as my main job was corporate planning. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. What you lose: 4.
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