{"id":9372,"date":"2017-01-12T20:32:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=9372"},"modified":"2017-01-16T17:16:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T21:16:59","slug":"incubator-de-la-jason-starts-feb-2017-2-slots-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/incubator-de-la-jason-starts-feb-2017-2-slots-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Incubator de la Jason, starts Feb 2017 2 slots left"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" height=\"100%\" width=\"100%\" id=\"bodyTable\" style=\"text-align: start; border-collapse: collapse; height: 1477px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 375px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\" id=\"bodyCell\" style=\"height: 1457px; margin: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; width: 355px; border-top-width: 0px; padding-top: 10px !important;\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"templateContainer\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; 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we need two more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 150% !important;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">We\u2019re looking for startups in our \u201cGoldilocks Zone,\u201d which means:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 150% !important;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">They have modest traction in the market &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 150% !important;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">They are hoping to get a Series A in the next 9-18 months by improving #1 significantly<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 150% !important;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">If you know of a company that wants to spend the next 12 weeks refining their pitch, growing their product and getting massively candid feedback from 50 investors, please hit reply and introduce me to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 150% !important;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">The deal is similar to other incubators: $50k ($25k on starting, $25k on completing the incubator), plus the option of syndicating their next round to our angel syndicate after graduation, for five percent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 150% !important;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">Last session we did 18 sessions of which I personally hosted 15. We had multiple startups raise multiple millions of dollars including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/launch.us2.list-manage2.com\/track\/click?u=baefb9fcb23d26e0308254e5c&amp;id=1d41f572ea&amp;e=790439f1dc\">Wrapify<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/launch.us2.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=baefb9fcb23d26e0308254e5c&amp;id=e1250c01d0&amp;e=790439f1dc\">CafeX<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/launch.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=baefb9fcb23d26e0308254e5c&amp;id=75e21d1c90&amp;e=790439f1dc\">StayWanderful<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 150% !important;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">About half of our startups fly in weekly or temporarily move to the Bay Area for the incubator (and many stay after graduating). So we are very open to folks from outside of the Valley joining us (but not remotely).<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 150% !important;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\">I will be meeting with startups in San Francisco for the next two weeks, so if you\u2019re a startup and want to meet, please apply today here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/launch.us2.list-manage1.com\/track\/click?u=baefb9fcb23d26e0308254e5c&amp;id=d940aa9381&amp;e=790439f1dc\">LAUNCH Incubator Application<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/launch.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=baefb9fcb23d26e0308254e5c&amp;id=191b196826&amp;e=790439f1dc\">@jason<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" id=\"templateFooter\" style=\"background-image: none; background-size: cover; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 9px; padding-bottom: 9px; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;\">\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnDividerBlock\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important;\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnDividerBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td class=\"mcnDividerBlockInner\" style=\"min-width: 100%; padding: 10px 18px 25px;\">\n<table class=\"mcnDividerContent\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; border-top-width: 2px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\" class=\"mcnTextBlock\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%;\">\n<tbody class=\"mcnTextBlockOuter\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" class=\"mcnTextBlockInner\" style=\"padding-top: 9px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/launch.us2.list-manage.com\/track\/open.php?u=baefb9fcb23d26e0308254e5c&amp;id=7d0042a47e&amp;e=790439f1dc\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"border: 0px; height: auto; outline: none;\"><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unedited by Larry Chiang&nbsp; Friends, The LAUNCH Incubator will start the first week of February and we have five of the seven companies selected &#8212; we need two more. 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