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Ask HN: What should I do? My launch pad list
I'm finishing up college at Babson (in Boston) right now and am pushing my new product out soon. We've (two of us) got some interest so far from consumers/investors and obviously, I'm pretty excited about it. I will try to start raising a round of seed funding next week (currently funded off of our consulting work).
We're looking for either reputable SV/tech angels or going the incubator route. Having run a web design firm for 3 years now, we've built 8+ web applications for clients and a lot of websites/microsites. We've done work for other prominent/up and coming startups. We've also previously done a presentation at DEMOFall (where we our first product failed). I've been to Le Web and am heading to SXSW next week [psyched]. So we have a tiny bit of experience under our belt.
We have enough to fund ourselves to live off of for about 5 months or so and can always take on minor UI/web work for cash to feed ourselves. It is possible that we could use some cash injection to hire college students or other reps from cities (we are doing a local thing as our product). But again, for the most part, we're just trying to find the right type of investors and launch space for this summer. I'm pretty open to moving anywhere but I'm gravitating towards SF/SV (and would only go somewhere else if. Do you think that we should do one of these incubators, raise a seed round, just move West or do something else completely?
So far here's what I have as far as reputable places to start (in order of attractiveness):
Accelerators
1)Ycombinator
2)TechStars (NYC or Boulder)
3)io Ventures
4)Excelerate Labs
5)500 Ventures
6)Summer@Highland Capital
7)~DreamIt Ventures
8)~Capital Factory
Others
1)Start@Spark
2)Dogpatch Labs
3)Plug and Play (Startup Camp or Workspace)
4)Foundry Group
5)~MassChallenge Incubator
Anyway, I'd love to hear feedback on what we should do etc. I'm sure a lot of people are in a similar boat right now.