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Techstars Launches Accelerator Program in Japan with Mitsui Fudosan and JETRO

AsiaTechDaily

Through a comprehensive 10-week program, participants gain crucial insights into startup fundamentals, mentorship, community building, and access to Techstars’ global network. Additionally, Startup Weekend events in Japan have engaged over 27,000 entrepreneurs and aspiring business leaders, fostering innovation and collaboration.

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

TechCrunch

Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom. The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópolis with Acate.

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TechCrunch Live is going to Boston, and you’re invited!

TechCrunch

Boston has long been one of the most important startup ecosystems in the United States. With major universities and a legacy of innovation, the city is a great place to start up and run a venture-backed business. Cait Brumme runs MassChallenge, the long-running, zero-equity startup accelerator based in Boston.

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What went wrong at Techstars

Founders Coop

. + This post unpacks offers an insiders’ view of some of the key strategic decisions that led to Techstars’ decline. ————– Techstars is – or was – one of the world’s best startup accelerator programs. It’s fair to say that the Seattle startup community would not be where it is today without Techstars.

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8 founders, leaders highlight fintech and deep tech as Bristol’s top sectors

TechCrunch

Bristol is also home to an important startup accelerator, SETsquared. A collaborative effort by the five universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey, the accelerator has supported over 4,000 entrepreneurs and helped their startups raise a total of £1.8 Coralie Hassanaly, innovation consultant, DRIAD.

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Engaging with the startup community: in conversation with Reece Walker and William McCullough

Startup Catalyst

We talked about how startups have changed over the last few years, what support has meant to them, Startup Catalyst missions and their impact, as well as ways to get involved in the startup community. He has been a supporter of the startup community since before the word startup was in general conversation.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

This is amazing when you consider that back in 2005 Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, iPhone, and many of the successful product platforms that enabled startup innovation didn’t exist or were not well known. There were no billion dollar unicorn startups. The typical tech startup would raise about $1M on a $3M valuation.