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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

One of the questions I heard most often from commenters was: “if Techstars is an example of a failed accelerator, what does a good one look like?” This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders.

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Wrap-up of the Startup Community Leaders Mission USA 2018

Startup Catalyst

The second Startup Community Leaders Mission to the USA took place from 11-18 March 2018, with 20 participants taking part, including 14 from 11 different regional towns in Queensland, 3 from Brisbane, one from Sydney, one from Adelaide, and one from New York (assisting the Beach City film crew). Aussie startups can and should plug in.

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This Angel Investor Shares 11 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Raise Smart Money

StartupNation

However, what is often direly needed is how to appeal to investors and raise smart money — knowledge that is essential for fundraising and a master key to building, accelerating and scaling your new venture. The winners receive support, including an investment, to accelerate and scale their ventures. Warm introductions. Be a leader.

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5 things you may have missed in Atomico’s 2021 Europe report

TechCrunch

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The Exchange has been tracking Europe’s startup acceleration for years now. For reference, that figure was below $10 billion in Q2 2019, Q3 2019, Q4 2019 and Q2 2020. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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The latecomer advantage in startups

TechCrunch

With some of the ugly out of the way — my words, not hers — T2 has examples it can refer back to on how to handle tensions around virality, doxxing and more. It just made me think about that larger comprehension coupled with the nimbleness of a startup. As always, you can follow me on Twitter or Instagram.

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Productivity platform Loopin helps work teams wrangle meetings

TechCrunch

This means that before the next meeting, each person has to refer to multiple apps to prepare and check the status of different tasks. “In During meetings, team members use various note-taking apps to write down takeaways and next steps, then share those over email and Slack and create tasks in a project management apps.

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VC Lab introduces free fund formation documents to make startup investing cheaper and easier

TechCrunch

There may be plenty of funding for some startups these days. VC Lab , an accelerator for venture capital firms, wants to create investors who will back the rest of the world. But if they get more serious than personal angel investing, you refer them to a fund formation lawyer. But plenty of companies will tell you otherwise.

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