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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

Participants from all over the world are eligible to compete for more than $100,000 in prize money and also receive mentorship and other resources. Eligible startups compete to win funding, legal support, and mentorship totaling more than $100,000. It provides mentorship, networking, and equity-free grants up to $50,000.

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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. Adam & I decided we wanted to return to our roots and focus on mentorship, which is our passion. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators.

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K-Startup Grand Challenge: The South Korea accelerator program that is ‘a gateway’ to doing business in Asia

AsiaTechDaily

KSGC selects 60 promising startup teams from across the world every year and gives an all-expenses-paid mentorship/networking opportunity in South Korea. The mentoring program and all the advice we received from the accelerator and from all the partners that we have been introduced to have been very useful to us.

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Finance and accounting biggest headache for small biz owners followed by tech

NZ Entrepreneur

As a country of small businesses, New Zealand is home to number of organisations that offer formal mentoring or business coaching facilities – including government agencies, incubator programmes (like The Icehouse), your local Chamber of Commerce or business association.

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Should every startup get funded?

This is going to be BIG.

That’s the thing—startups in the initial stages need advice, feedback, and guidence a lot more than they need money upfront. If you can’t back it up with guidance and mentorship, we’re burning up a lot of cash, 500k at a time. That’s why participating in programs like TechStars make so much sense.

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Why every VC should spend a month with an accelerator

TechCrunch

When investors spend time at an accelerator, they listen to brainstorming sessions, pitches and mentorship advice that includes a broad range of perspectives and opinions. Techstars Equitech Accelerator ) and women founders (e.g.,

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

What advice would you give to entrepreneurs pursuing a startup in Oklahoma? Statewide, the number of small business incubators that focus on women and minority-owned business has grown rapidly. Women business leaders have created mentorship networks to help support a culture of innovation and risk-taking. Get started!