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I was in a pitch meeting a few weeks ago where an early stage company CEO was going through his incredibly rehearsed and wonderful company pitch. Great slides, slick business concept, pretty team [...]

My last article introduced the idea of a TechCoAccelerator. This is a way for startups and early stage companies to build their MVPs and next version updated/expanded services by using reliable [...]

My last article showed why the pace of innovation and startup activity in the US has been virtually snuffed out… Good quality, experienced technical talent is just not available at a sustainable [...]

Last weekend I went to another Startup Weekend event. This is the awesome 54-hour (Friday to Sunday) event sponsored by TechStars that takes teams from initial rough idea to building a team then [...]

I’ve been involved in one way or another with business accelerators for more than thirty years. Sometimes you hear the names Accelerator and Incubator used interchangeably but these are two very [...]

Facebook, Google, Netflix, and Amazon are all going strong right now but one thing is for sure… No disruptor has lasted forever. Just as these leaders crushed their predecessors, new innovative [...]

The world is changing fast… The Tech World even faster. And every day it seems like a new technology incubator/accelerator pops up.  Universities, venture capital firms, big companies, and [...]

What’s the next big thing? What’s the next Billion dollar startup? If you think it might be in the area of Artificial Intelligence, big data, or the Internet of Things you just might be wrong… [...]

Over the last decade or so startup accelerators have been a great source of inspiration, education, connections and capital for new companies. Y-Combinator, the granddaddy of them all started on [...]

Last week in New York I attended another Startup business Show & Tell event. This one was sponsored by the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator and featured ten promising startups presenting [...]