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Why we’re ditching Demo Days | TechCrunch

Mar

5

2017

I started to realize that Demo Days might be getting stale when an investor at one of our events told me to share the highlights after the pitches were done — he would be out in the hallway with a beer. Another time, an investor said he wanted to quit his job and build a ...
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Incubators / Accelerators · Pitching · Venture Forums

Demo Days

2012 Startup Accelerator Report presented by .CO – Tech Cocktail

May

5

2013

A Guide to Choosing the Best Accelerator for Your Tech Startup is a 20-page startup accelerator report that outlines five key factors for startups to consider when choosing an accelerator. Accelerators offer entrepreneurs a chance to spend several months intensely focused on their product and business – fueled by funding and mentorship, and often in ...
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Incubators / Accelerators

STARTGRID – MEET. WORK. GROW.

May

5

2013

Startgrid connects entrepreneurs to resources, relationships and community – everything needed to build great companies. It’s where the whole entrepreneurial economy comes together. You’ve got passion, a big idea and a clear vision. You’re working hard to build a great business. Is that enough? The difference between success and failure often comes down to having ...
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Incubators / Accelerators

IBM Banks On Small Start-Ups For Big Growth

Aug

31

2011

Streetline Inc. has been selling its parking-sensor technology for only a year and it has just 30 employees, but International Business Machines Corp. is depending on it and hundreds of young start-ups like it to reach ambitious financial targets. By 2015, IBM expects to add about $30 billion to its 2010 revenue of $99.9 billion, ...
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Incubators / Accelerators · Strategic Investors · Venture Capital

startup partner

Incubators: A Great Place to Hatch Your Company

Sep

27

2008

Imagine a place where you can focus on getting your company off the ground. A place with affordable rent where office equipment and administrative help are provided, and managerial and business advice are close at hand. If you imagined such a place, would you be dreaming? Maybe not, if you can hook mall business incubators ...
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Incubators / Accelerators

Y Combinator, the incubator with buzz — VentureBeat

Sep

27

2008

Without doubt, the incubator flavor of the year is Y Combinator. Few of its companies have matured enough to judge its success, but we’re seeing promising ideas emerge. Reddit, for example, was sold to Wired parent, Conde Nast. Its guiding light is leader Paul Graham, who thinks and writes deeply (we’ve linked to him often) ...
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Incubators / Accelerators

y combinator

Clean Energy Alliance

Sep

27

2008

The National Alliance of Clean Energy Business Incubators, established in 2000 by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), is an alliance of leading business incubators dedicated to providing business and financial services tailored to the needs of the clean energy community.
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Incubators / Accelerators

Advanced Technology Development Center

Sep

27

2008

The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) strives to be the world’s best technology business incubator. Our mission: to increase the technology business base in Georgia by helping entrepreneurs launch and build successful high-tech companies. For more than 25 years, ATDC has provided strategic business advice and connected member companies to people and resources they need ...
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Incubators / Accelerators

Business Incubation Facts – NBIA

Sep

27

2008

Business incubators nurture the development of entrepreneurial companies, helping them survive and grow during the start-up period, when they are most vulnerable. These programs provide their client companies with business support services and resources tailored to young firms. The most common goals of incubation programs are creating jobs in a community, enhancing a community’s entrepreneurial ...
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Incubators / Accelerators

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