This is going to be BIG.
FEBRUARY 7, 2010
NYC Seed announces a summer incubator for 2010 that includes 20k investments. I’ll be running Open Angel Forum NYC with Brian Alvey on April 8th, 2010. Nate Westheimer hired by Flybridge as an advisor. Jon Steinberg joins Polaris and opens Dogpatch. Roger Ehrenberg is announces a new $25 million fund. Here’s how it works.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. From this we have seen a commensurate boom in the number of startup companies. Today’s Normalization.
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Entrepreneurs' Organization
MARCH 17, 2021
When we study real accounts of innovation, we find that critical moves are often preceded by long spells of reflection or incubation–which are absent from innovation models. But for breakthrough innovation, you need time to consolidate learning, assess options and consider the smartest move, not just the obvious move.
Venture Hacks
APRIL 17, 2019
Valuations for pre-traction companies between 2005-2010 were $1-5M pre-money for the first non-friends-and-family round. These valuations moved to $4-6M pre-money after 2010, with some demo days in the $8-10M range. Incentives influence the advice you get from VCs, lawyers, incubators, and everybody else.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 28, 2010
11.2mm in Series A, rumored pre-money of $35mm; $1.6mm angel raised in Jan 2010. In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. Read more: TechCrunch.
Entrepreneurs' Organization
AUGUST 12, 2019
In 2010, Ravi founded IndiVillage , the first information technology (IT) and information technology enabled services (ITeS) company in India to become certified as a B Corporation. “EO Many startup incubators and accelerators are funded by large multinational corporations who induct startups that align only with their own agendas.
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.
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