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Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2022

StartupNation

Revenue has tripled year over year since the company’s 2014 founding. Software can be licensed to corporations to benefit employees and uses behavioral science to understand the reasoning behind financial decisions people make and to help democratize financial advice for the masses. Apply now to Guardhat. . Apply now to Pocketnest.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. But by 2014 much had started to change. Adam & I decided we wanted to return to our roots and focus on mentorship, which is our passion. So what next? Market stage is everything.

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Mentor Collective shakes off its boots to scale student support services

TechCrunch

Mentorship is a crucial ingredient to a student’s success. For Mentor Collective , a Boston-based startup founded in 2014, answers to the challenges and opportunities within scaled mentorship have taken time to figure out. The more important milestone?

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Vidit Aatrey on Building Meesho, India’s Top Reselling Platform, with Adora Cheung

Y Combinator

44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. Even if you don’t do well really after that, Vidit Aatrey [10:46] – we will put you in a mentorship program, where we connect you with some top trainers for a month and these guys will tell you how you start a business. 46:45 – Why is Delhi the best IIT?

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How Do VCs Choose Their Investors (and should entrepreneurs care?)

Both Sides of the Table

We capped our fund size so that we would stay true to our investment strategy in terms of size, scope and number of partners as we stood in 2014 when we raised the fund. So I immediately felt like I had a partner whom I could call for sensitive advice on topics where there aren’t many sources of input or mentorship.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

Both Sides of the Table

Mentorship. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. Startup Advice' The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

Both Sides of the Table

We also promoted Jordan Hudson to principal in 2014 and have encouraged him to begin looking at deals. Many people have helped us along the way with guidance, mentorship, introductions and advice. Will our strategy change now that we have 40% more capital? . Nobody achieves anything like this alone. But thank you.

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