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Free Money for Student Tech Founders

David Teten VC

Contestants pitch their legal product idea for a chance to win $5,000, tutoring, and more. The Baylor New Venture Competition is a business plan and elevator pitch competition for college students from around the globe. Student teams pitch and compete for more than $1.5 The competition has $50,000 in cash prizes.

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Meet Seoul-based accelerator SparkLabs’ 19th batch of startups 

TechCrunch

The accelerator also operates other government-supported programs like TIPS , a tech incubator program for startups in South Korea, and manages later-stage investment funds, Kim noted. . Not all teams end up pitching at demo day. South Korea, which attracts the third largest amount of venture capital funding in Asia — about $6.45

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VCs at Freestyle, Plexo Capital and Sequoia join Startup Battlefield judges

TechCrunch

We have an outstanding cohort of VCs ready to hear their pitches and follow up with tough Q&As — and we’re thrilled to add three more to the slate. The seed-stage venture capital firm holds more than $565 million assets under management and investments in over 150 startups. Dave Samuel, the co-founder of Freestyle.vc.

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The Most Critical Startup Talent Crunch: Great Leaders at Growing Companies

This is going to be BIG.

We now have incubators, accelorators, business plan competitions, and government backed seed programs, but it's not clear to me that this is where the pain is or where the impact is. One of the many frustrations of being a Met fan as I have said time and time again is that the Yankees get other team's closers to pitch the seventh inning.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

TechCrunch

Ahrefs claims to have become a $100 million company in annual revenue without venture capital. Blocksport Blocksport builds Web3-ready platform solutions for the professional sports and entertainment industry to enable tokenization use cases for their fan community. Incorporated in Delaware, USA.

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VC Ann Miura-Ko is looking to help more students answer the question: Is this idea big enough?

TechCrunch

But over the years, it has forced Floodgate’s small team to sort through many thousands of pitches and identify those it thinks have the most potential. Were you incubating companies together? Writing so few checks, particular in a booming market, might prove frustrating to some investors. Our chat has been edited for length.

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How to Get Started Mapping Your Entrepreneurial Ecosystem [Updated]

Ecosystem Builder Hub

It can be used as a storytelling tool to enable ecosystem organizations to see the different onramps and paths that different founders take, and identify what’s working as well as gaps that need to be addressed. Most obviously, ecosystem maps can serve as a resource guide for entrepreneurs in the community.