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mHub opens much bigger facility to kick Chicago startups into high gear

TechCrunch

It would involve a prototyping lab, offices, shared workspaces, meeting rooms and classrooms. In those seven years, the accelerator says it has supported more than 500 startups, 200 manufacturers, been awarded around 450 patents, and helped to create roughly 4,000 jobs. And this just hits the Venn diagram perfectly right.”

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When Is The Right Time For A Startup To Move Into A Physical Space

Startup Grind

Even then, it may only need to have its key staff in the office; marketing, accounting, IT, and support staff can all be housed off premises or dispersed. That said, it’s important to remember that the definition of a physical office has changed from what it was twenty years ago. You don’t necessarily need a desk for every employee.

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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

But if you ever forget that supporting extraordinary founders is the whole game, and that your only job as an early stage investor is to identify them and help them progress, you have irretrievably lost the plot. Step 4: Help them raise money Almost by definition, high-growth companies consume capital.