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When VCs Play Defense

Both Sides of the Table

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. It got me thinking about the advice that I often give to new VCs. ” And then there are incubators and accelerators. They want you to attend demo days. Lines, Not Dots.

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Come Work at YC

Y Combinator

Work on everything from our Demo Day experience, internal financial systems and tools to help founders connect with one another for advice, intros, deals, networking and more. Product Engineer – Y Combinator : Join a small-but-mighty software team that builds the OS that runs all of YC.

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11 angel investing lessons

Venture Hacks

Incentives make for bad investing advice. These valuations moved to $4-6M pre-money after 2010, with some demo days in the $8-10M range. Incentives make for bad investing advice. Incentives influence the advice you get from VCs, lawyers, incubators, and everybody else. Back $0B companies. Invest only in technology.

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Ascend raises $25 million for pre-seed AI startups in the Pacific Northwest

TechCrunch

“It’s so easy to throw together a vertical AI demo,” Winfield told TechCrunch. If they can baseline their advice and real technical guidance, that’s where it starts getting really interesting and [Winfield] has a big opportunity.”

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K-Startup Grand Challenge: The South Korea accelerator program that is ‘a gateway’ to doing business in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

At the end of the program in December 2016, a demo day was organized in which 20 promising startups received funding of $33,000 from the government, with the top four getting an additional $6,000 to $100,000. The top 10 teams got monetary awards worth $10,000 to $120,000 on the demo day of KSGC 2021. Manufacturing in Asia is huge.

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The Amazing Disappearing VC

This is going to be BIG.

Given the proliferation of accelerators and incubators that pre-vet entrepreneurs, roll up their sleeves to help companies, and dress them up for demo days, the best and brightest are being showcased to look better than ever. Pick what you want off the menu and someone will provide that service for you.

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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

Astra Incubator is “the first Italian incubation program designed to connect aspiring innovators and build multidisciplinary teams.” The program contains events focused on specific topics and concludes with a final demo day with investors. Free advice (worth as much as you’re paying for it). The prize amount is $1,000.

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