NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 12, 2019

Recently they introduced a programme specifically for startup founders. Incubators and accelerator programmes. Maybe you’ve heard about a friend of a mate’s sister who got Government funding for their business through something called an accelerator? What’s that all about?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

“There are a lot of [programs] that target younger women to get them into coding in high school, and there’s a lot of syndicates and founder groups for women late into their careers,” Titus said. Startup founders set up hacker homes to recreate Silicon Valley synergy. Womxn Ignite is organized as a live-in incubator.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The biggest challenge for a startup founder is knowing where to focus. Yes, you can screw up some things, but there’s one task you can’t get wrong: you’ve got to pick the right, critical advisors or coaches, the ones who will keep you on track to accelerate toward your dream. Your team is lean, the margin of error narrow.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 22, 2019

Today, there are more nonprofits and incubator programs supporting potential entrepreneurs than ever before. If you’re a startup founder ready to gain the tools you need to get to the next level, check out the EO Accelerator program. Learn more and apply for the program.

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Onevest

APRIL 21, 2015

By Michael Whitehouse If you are considering investing in a startup company offline or online with platforms like 1000 Angels , a private investor network that connects startups with investors, the sheer number of what’s available can be both daunting and comforting.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. Why do startups join the Ycombinator program?

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 27, 2013

The valley and startup-land does not fetishize failure despite the increasing reports to the contrary. FailCon is not the Darwin Awards for startups. Founders do not start businesses with the express interest to fail. Founders create huge information dissemination groups in person and through blogs.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Connecting with excellent diversity-focused incubators and accelerators such as Camelback Ventures in New Orleans, Opportunity Hub in Atlanta, the LatinX Incubator in Chicago and the Hillman Accelerator in Ohio might serve as a starting point. Build in a mechanism to accept unsolicited applications for investment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Microsoft is extending the Startup Founders Hub, its self-service platform that provides founders with free resources including Azure credits, with a new incubator program called the Pegasus Program. “In a capital-constrained environment, startups need to demonstrate traction and revenue growth.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

And now, the startup has raised $20 million in Series A funding to continue expanding its platform. MarqVision uses artificial intelligence and machine learning technology its founders first worked on at MIT: its approach is to automate both the scanning and reporting of illicit usage.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Y Combinator’s newly announced plan to invest more capital into startups that take part in its accelerator program is more controversial than many first assumed. program and investing group with hundreds of companies in each of its accelerator classes may have materially changed the earliest stage of investing.

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HPA

OCTOBER 11, 2022

SkySpecs – Novel clean-tech engineering series D startup that utilizes drones to inspect wind turbines for critical maintenance, hailing from U-M’s TechArb student venture accelerator and founded by former students Danny Ellis , Jonathan Bendes , Ryan Morton , Sam DeBruin , and Tom Brady. Originally featured in Forbes.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas. “Our Google for Startups Accelerator. Techstars Impact Accelerator.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas. “Our Google for Startups Accelerator. Peacetech Accelerator.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. You’re involved in other aspects of the firm’s activities: due diligence, portfolio acceleration, board service, etc. Accelerator Centre. Accelerator Centre is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada. Consilience Ventures.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Boston offers a world of advantages for startup founders 5 investors discuss Boston’s resilient tech ecosystem The startup economy has grown and shifted since the turn of the century, and universities — stocked with a never-ending supply smart, ambitious young people — have increasingly taken part.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Capita3 : co-founded by Pamela York and Sara Russick with a focus on early-stage venture capital fund investing in women startup founders in innovative health sectors such as digital health, telehealth, health tech, human health, genomics and bioIT, food-as-medicine, and other health sectors.

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