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The Veteran Fund Announces Oversubscribed Fund and $100K Competition Winner

American Entrepreneurship

In support of military Veteran-founded startups, the Fund focuses on space, AI, and cybersecurity leveraging a veteran’s leadership. Head of Global Operations of The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, and the Co-Founder & COO of the Vet-Tech Startup Accelerator.

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BE 2.0: Why Culture Matters More Than Strategy

Paul G. Silva

Culture in Action: A Story from Valley Venture Mentors Let me share how this played out at Valley Venture Mentors (VVM), a nonprofit startup accelerator I helped lead. But our board chairman asked a simple question: “Is filling out forms fun?” It seemed logicalbetter matching would help entrepreneurs succeed, right?

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Gener8tor is the biggest startup accelerator you’ve never heard of…

TechCrunch

For the past decade, Gener8tor has been working to shift that by spinning up accelerators in local communities that have money but are underserved in terms of startup support. We spoke with the Gener8tor founders about why they are passionate about thinking about the startup ecosystem a little differently.

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The Magic Midnight Mind Meld

Both Sides of the Table

Nobody has family duties, board meetings, full schedules. Given that I hadn’t had time to change out of my t-shirt (I had promised Jonathan Strauss I would wear to support his company), I tried to keep a low profile here [full shirt: Effing Social Media, How Does it Work? But at SXSW? We’re there to hang out. Gary Vee.

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Snap debuts its fifth cohort of Yellow accelerator startups

TechCrunch

The eight companies that are part of the latest batch of startups will take up a 13-week residency in one of Snap’s buildings in Santa Monica, California. Ettos — Is making an e-commerce platform for beauty products, supporting inclusive beauty, based in Colombia.

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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America

TechCrunch

Vale do Dendê coordinates with local startups, investors and government agencies to support entrepreneurship and innovation and runs startup acceleration programs specifically focusing on supporting Afro-Brazilian founders. There is a clear recognition of the business case for Afro-Brazilian businesses.

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Pave gets Y Combinator to back better startup compensation tools, again

TechCrunch

Y Combinator, which helped incubate Pave and is now leading its most recent round through its later-stage capital vehicle, is one of the largest startup accelerators in the world. Ali Rowghani, the managing director of the fund and former COO of Twitter, is joining Pave’s board.

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