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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

None of the local VC firms invested. from Sequoia Capital and have gone on to raise over $1 Billion from VC investors. Despite deep local roots in Boston and strong ties to Harvard and MIT, they decided to shut down Ycombinator Cambridge and moved everything to Silicon Valley in January of 2009.