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One of our partners, LaunchBox Digital, is an early-stage Internet startup incubator fund. It’s similar in structure to TechStars in Boulder, Colorado. Startup companies - or founders with ideas that could become companies - apply to participate. The projects selected for the fund commit to spending the summer working with the fund’s founders and their [...]

Sometimes Internet startups have a business model. Sometimes they don’t - and the story typically boils down to “we’ll figure it out” or “we’ll sell.” For consumer media and information services, more often than not “figure it out” means build a large enough audience to sell advertising around it. For platforms and tools, founders aspire [...]