Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. The Funding Problem.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 11, 2012
Personally, I think it would be pretty awesome if all of the people who subscribe to my weekly newsletter could put $2000 towards supporting the early stage tech ecosystem in NYC. At least startups have accelerators, incubators, etc. [scratches bald head]. Raising money for a new fund is harder than raising money for a new company.
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Y Combinator
AUGUST 5, 2019
The only model of institutional seed funding was the “business incubator” model, where VC firms would fund well-connected founders they knew and incubate them in their office. The startup is typically incubated out of the VC’s offices. Then, the cost to start a tech company plummeted.
TechCrunch
JANUARY 13, 2021
Thangavelu is also one of the co-creators of the Cloud Custodian project, which was first incubated at Capital One, where the two co-founders met during their time there, and is now a sandbox project under the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s umbrella.
Berkonomics
AUGUST 29, 2024
A personal story of failing fast My favorite story of a fast failure was of a technology incubator started in the year 2000 with optimistic money from several angel investors, including me. He volunteered to close the incubator, and he returned 96% of our investments to all of us angel investors.
TechCrunch
MARCH 9, 2021
The investment firm Flagship Pioneering has incubated a lot of life sciences companies since it was founded in 2000. That’s notable, considering that Flagship incubated 11-year-old Moderna, which currently boasts a $50 billion market cap thanks in large part its coronavirus vaccine.
Berkonomics
JANUARY 12, 2012
My favorite story of a fast failure was of a technology incubator started in the year 2000 with optimistic money from a number of angel investments, including mine. He volunteered to close the incubator and returned 96% of our investments to all of the angel investors.
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