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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. In fact, it is "well-known internationally as the original home of New York's technology community.". Sun's space was for it's customer assistance unit and Cornell just had a demo space patched into a supercomputer back on campus.

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After a record 2022, 8 investors explain why it’s ‘still just Day 1’ for Africa’s startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

This shows that Africa’s investment landscape is still very promising because it continues to grow, and there’s increasing interest in multiple startup ecosystems, including nascent ecosystems. These are all indications of a growing ecosystem,” he added. We are slowly building a more durable capital base for African tech.

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How We Created our Digital Demo Day Experience

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The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting the entire startup ecosystem, and in the name of safety and support of our founders, we hosted our first-ever Digital Demo Day last week. This was a whole new take on demo day for us, and the end result was a unique and inspiring experience for both our startups and investor community.

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Impact Hub Belgrade – 5 years of making, failing and creating impact

Impact Hub

The opportunities we have been providing are an entrance point to becoming part of a community that enables you to create new economic models. These activities centered around facilitating a connection between people and communities whose paths don’t usually cross. Transmedia Strategist and Community Catalyst, at Impact Hub Belgrade.

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YC is CRISPR for Startups

Y Combinator

People often believe that YC’s raison d’etre is Demo Day and fundraising — and that founders’ singular goal in applying to YC and completing our program is to increase their probability of executing a successful fundraise. The comparison of a startup ecosystem to the biological version is, of course, not a new one.

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One Decade In, Saying Hello to the Next One: Announcing Founders’ Co-op IV

Founders Coop

In a few weeks we’ll celebrate Demo Day for our 10th Techstars Seattle class, bringing us to 100 total new companies that have been supported by that program. One of those amazing founders from our first fund, Aviel Ginzburg, is now my investing partner at Founders’ Co-op, and we just closed our fourth fund, our largest ever at $25 million.

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Should founders join incubators?

Tomasz Tunguz

We had a conversation about the role of incubators and accelerators (or the moniker of your choice) within the startup ecosystem. Fund raising assistance (aka Demo Day) - These events are designed to build auction pressure in financings by generating simultaneous investor interest. Yesterday, I spoke at Columbia Business School.