Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. Join a startup incubator. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. Join a startup incubator. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2011

The event featured 6 newly-minted FinTech Innovation grads (selected out of 90) showcasing their progress after 3 months of incubation. If you’re looking for more thoughts on the event, check out Ryan Kim ’s GigaOM post.

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Software Review New York City Technical Review Due Diligence 114

Version One Ventures

APRIL 30, 2013

Despite the recent media buzz surrounding the hardware revolution and emerging maker space, the overwhelming majority of hardware startups have a hard time attracting financing today. As a result, most venture capitalists are reluctant to touch hardware projects, opting for the lower costs and smaller risks of software.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. Incubators and Accelerators. Then we have startup platforms like incubators and accelerators. If you are facing any problem you can always check out this: Business Loan vs. Equity Financing. Inception stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies. Join a startup incubator. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months.

Entrepreneur 120

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Business plan software. If you’re looking for a tool—business plan software—to make the process easier, we recommend LivePlan. Real business planning is a process, that goes on forever, as the plan is reviewed and revised often. . Accelerators and incubators. Whereas an incubator helps with the beginning stages.

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Business Plan Incubator Software Review Programming 82

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

If you have the entrepreneurial itch and managed to graduate without taking advantage of these wonderful university programs, or perhaps you’re a few years older and preceded them, you still have access to incubators and accelerators in every high tech hub around the country. Residency in a quality incubator is a plus.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

And that’s true pretty much across the board – from exits, late stage financings, scaling companies, and seed activity. So I thought I’d jot down some of the highlights I have seen from my vantage point in this 2011 Boston Consumer Web Year in Review. IPO’s/Exits. Tripadvisor: An amazing entrepreneurial story.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Business plan software. If you’re looking for a tool—business plan software—to make the process easier, we recommend LivePlan. Real business planning is a process, that goes on forever, as the plan is reviewed and revised often. . Accelerators and incubators. Whereas an incubator helps with the beginning stages.

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Business Plan Incubator Software Review Programming 60

A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Incubators and accelerators are breeding grounds of hype - they put lists of companies out there and have a demo day to display their wares. This can lead to lots of hype among investors and very rapid financings where VCs are forced to “act quickly” and provide term sheets in less than 48 hours. Let’s talk about how to do that.

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San Diego Software Review San Francisco Silicon Valley 60

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. – Launch a “ venture studio ” or “ foundry ”.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers. The startup scene is relatively young, however, which is partly due to some pretty fundamental cultural barriers. Incubators, Accelerators, Competitions. We have those too.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. Next, Umakant Soni discussed Vimagino.com , a software for Web-based Q&A support to engage customers better on sites that are trying to draw people in and convert them into customers. an e-commerce storefront building software for the Indian market. JCLABoutique.com.

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India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I call it drip-financing. Most entrepreneurs have no choice but to avail of this sort of financing along with the mentoring and the contacts that could come with it (doesn't always come along, though). In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. View More in Cleantech ›.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. Parrot AR Drone Review [VIDEO] View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Airs Hilarious Soci. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. Parrot AR Drone Review [VIDEO] View More » Web Video Local FOX Station Airs Hilarious Soci. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code. Undoubtedly the code sucked, but at least he got something up and running. Teach ‘em Finance and Chase or Accenture will come and pick ‘em up 30 at a time.

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New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 132

mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

iPhone & iPod Touch Download Mashable for iPhone 152,000+ users iPad Download Mashable for iPad 104,100+ users Nexus One, Droid, Incredible Download Mashable for Android 9,400+ users show QR code The 4th annual Mashable Awards Nominate for your favorite company, person, site or gadget in the 4th Annual Mashable Awards.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

iPhone & iPod Touch Download Mashable for iPhone 152,000+ users iPad Download Mashable for iPad 104,100+ users Nexus One, Droid, Incredible Download Mashable for Android 9,400+ users show QR code The 4th annual Mashable Awards Nominate for your favorite company, person, site or gadget in the 4th Annual Mashable Awards.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Graham is the founder of Y Combinator, the leading startup incubator, and the essays on his blog providethought-leadership on topics as varied as startup funding, marketing, and life lived well. The columnists cover everything from media to finance to advertising to economics and I benefit from them all.

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Entrepreneur Redemption New York Cofounder 91

mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

iPhone & iPod Touch Download Mashable for iPhone 152,000+ users iPad Download Mashable for iPad 104,100+ users Nexus One, Droid, Incredible Download Mashable for Android 9,400+ users show QR code The 4th annual Mashable Awards Nominate for your favorite company, person, site or gadget in the 4th Annual Mashable Awards.

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Coder Technical Review Social Media Technical Cofounder 60

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. Technology Business Incubators (TBIs).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. Technology Business Incubators (TBIs).

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 176

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. However, there was no way for founders to share this information with other founders (this was life before the Internet, incubators and accelerators). It’s hard to think of a hardware/software or life science technology that dominates its space for years.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 274

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. The article and HN are concerned with software. I assume you have some new take on what youre doing - otherwise you wouldnt be doing it. Note the "new".

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Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

——— I’m getting ready to go overseas to teach , and I’ve spent the last week reviewing several countries’ ambitious attempts to kick-start entrepreneurship. In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . Founded in 2000 by Stephen Kaufer and Langley Steinert, Boston-based TripAdvisor is a travel website that provides reviews and other information for consumers about travel destinations around the world. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester. .

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Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

What’s the magic formula that helps a city to incubate innovation? Dubbed by Forbes as the most inventive city in the world due to its “patent intensity”, Eindhoven is a hotbed for hardware design and high-tech innovation. Startups range from award-winning data software Druva to telecommunication hardware Swipe.

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North Carolina Technical Review Cyprus Raleigh 168

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. Pretend that you are the investor.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Exit Strategy 60

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Voyager’s cognitive-computing, deep-insights platform assesses billions of publicly available, unstructured data points to provide insights for its clients in finance, retail and consulting. Dragonera (2016) – AI based software development service. The company completed its $16M Series B in November 2016.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Don’t wait to fill the void before letting him go (but obviously get all the code / usernames / password). If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. Sometimes I use Balsamiq, sometimes I code a prototype, doesn’t matter – just create something, then tell the world. I would tell him how you guys feel.

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

He counsels public and private company clients in a variety of industries including information technology, government contracting, software and telecommunications. Think of it as “shared office space meets incubator meets entrepreneurial club-house.”

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