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TechStar Co-Founder @BFeld: Are We Experiencing A Startup Accelerator Bubble?

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Expansion League Teams In The Startup World. In the past year, the number of startup accelerators and incubators across the US has grown faster than expansion league baseball. In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

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Let me start out with my premise: “Data rooms are where fund-raising processes go to die.” I have to back up and give you more context. Most entrepreneurs (and VCs raising from LPs) think this means progress. I’m going to start with the reasons and then explain how to use your best data to your advantage. It doesn’t.

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Don’t Cede Control: Why You Need to Cut out Middle Men in Negotiations

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Yet a critical mistake I see many entrepreneurs make is that they hand over too much control to their third-parties. And a key point is that when it comes down to “negotiations&# you need to turn up your personal heat and dial back the middle man. Let me start with an example. I told my agent. “That’s nuts!