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Build Predictable Startup Models by Forming an Agency

ReadWriteStart

Startup studios continue to grow in popularity as incubators for new businesses. Industry-specific domain experience becomes critical when identifying operational pain points ripe for transformation. A digital agency also performs project work for third-party clients simultaneously with incubating new startups.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Nikolai Barnwell currently serves as Program Manager of accelerator 88MPH’s operations in Nairobi.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Ensure staff, partners, customers, and board understand the business technological vision. Tactical Draw-up and control complete IT operational and capital expenditure budgets for IT. Past responsibility for operational and capital budgets in excess of $1M, confidence with budgeting and spend planning.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. We're very fortunate that the YCombinator program took us on and is our incubator company, all of that. One of their partners reached out to us after the key paper got published late last year. Eric Ries : When was that? Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

In other words, they've more than proved their plan can work--so much so that Bitwise now operates in two more cities and plans to keep growing. They are now operating in nine States. It was an incubator. It was a very small incubator in Fresno. Jake Soberal : Hi, my name is Jake Soberal. It was just all over the map.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. StartupDevKit is a new type of online startup incubator and accelerator but also helps startup-related companies, as well. Lowground Records was the easiest business I have ever named and I knew the name fit the second my business partner said it.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups.