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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

. + This post unpacks offers an insiders’ view of some of the key strategic decisions that led to Techstars’ decline. ————– Techstars is – or was – one of the world’s best startup accelerator programs.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Two years earlier I saw another Boston based startup called Carbonite pitch a similar cloud backup solution to investors. You get help refining your product vision, identifying the market, working out your business model, putting together your investor pitch, and at the end of the program, the Investor Demo Day.