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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Teaching entrepreneurial skills is a worthy endeavor and likely offers career benefits to ambitious employees and their employers, but it is not the purpose of a startup accelerator.

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The startup landscape has shifted dramatically: Accelerators must adapt or fade away

TechCrunch

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. the free YC Startup School courses). Digital communities and social platforms such as Twitter, Signal NFX, YC’s co-founder matching, and Slack communities (e.g., Finally, the talent pool for tech startups has broadened immensely.

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 1

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Recently, I worked with a community that was struggling to explain what they thought success looked like in ten years to their funding organizations. And the ecosystem building metrics stem from the outcomes derived from the community. We asked ecosystem builders why practical metrics and methods is important to them. “I

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Matter raises $7 million Series A to build a better reading app

TechCrunch

A startup called Matter , which aims to build a better reading app for today’s internet, is launching out of private beta testing and announcing the close of its $7 million Series A, led by GV (formerly Google Ventures.) At the outset, one of Matter’s larger goals was to help people make better decisions about what to read.

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How to Find a Job as a VC Scout: Compensation and Which Firms Are Recruiting

David Teten VC

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators.

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