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How to Grow Your Chapter’s Accelerator Program

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Brad Stevens is an EO Atlanta member, Chair of that chapter’s Accelerator program, and founder and CEO of Outsource Access , which helps companies grow by providing highly skilled virtual assistants. Here, he shares his experience and insights for growing Atlanta’s Accelerator program.

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NJEDA Hosts Diversity Finance Advisory Board Meeting, Convening Diverse Group of Entrepreneurs and Investors

American Entrepreneurship

March 5, 2024) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) held the first in-person meeting of the Diversity Finance Advisory Board (DFAB) last week, bringing together a diverse group of investors, entrepreneurs, and mentors for presentations and networking sessions.

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What Should Founders Be Focusing On? SSRL Can Be Their Guide.

Paul G. Silva

In 2014 the great Steve Blank gave the startup world its first widely-respected quantitative assessment system: the Investment Readiness Level (IRL). For companies in Level 4: Relationship , most of the milestones are on finding cost effective marketing, sales, and retention strategies. The conversation she has is illuminating.

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Tunisian enterprise AI startup InstaDeep raises $100M from AI Capital, BioNTech, Google

TechCrunch

InstaDeep was founded by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim in 2014. Other examples are the design of advanced therapeutics with silicon and routing components on a printed circuit board. InstaDeep uses reinforcement learning, a kind of machine learning that helps design optimization strategies and tackles them simultaneously.

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AC Ventures reaches first close of a $250M fund for Southeast Asian startups

TechCrunch

Founded in 2014, ACV’s portfolio now has over 120 investments in Indonesia and the rest of Southeast Asia. Wong previously worked at GGV and Qiming Ventures and has served on the boards of startups like Tudou and Mobike. Our fund plays on a successful strategy we’ve continued to refine to be early-stage focused,” said Li.

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Extra Crunch roundup: first-check myths, Miami relocation checklist, standout SaaSy startups

TechCrunch

The options for financing are seemingly endless: syndicates, public crowdfunding, VC firms, accelerators, debt financing, rolling funds, and, for the profitable few, bootstrapping. Notably, the company has not fundraised since 2014, a year in which it attracted just under $82 million at a valuation of $355 million, per PitchBook data.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

TechCrunch

Startup accelerators’ definition of ‘value add’ is due for a refresh. As founders find themselves fielding ample investor interest, accelerators are changing how they invest, what they offer to their cohorts, and how they maximize value and attract top talent, reports Natasha Mascarenhas. Image Credits: z_wei / Getty Images.

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