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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Seeing little opportunity here, Drew and Arash moved the company to Silicon Valley later that year. Dropbox is expected to IPO in 2015 at a valuation exceeding $10 Billion. Why do startups join the Ycombinator program? It is like a 3 month boot camp for startups. None of the local VC firms invested.

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

Y Combinator

39:40 – What’s a strong opinion he had about running a startup that he’s changed since running Meesho? 41:10 – How has the Indian startup ecosystem evolved? 43:30 – Can foreigners come to India and start a startup? 44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders.

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Nigerian founders-turn-investors are now running syndicate funds

TechCrunch

The Future Africa Fund kicked off in 2015 when Iyinoluwa Aboyeji and Nadayar Enegesi , co-founders of US-based and African-focused talent company Andela, wrote checks to African startups as angel investors. Syndicate leads are often experienced angel investors or successful startup founders.

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