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The BF TechCelerator is Hosting a Pitch Event: Someone Will Walk Away With Up To $10,000!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

STATE COLLEGE, PA – On December 6, 2018, six emerging tech entrepreneurs will compete for up to $10,000 at the BF TechCelerator’s graduation “pitch” event. A panel of local judges will evaluate the presenters who have been honing their business concepts for the past ten weeks in an intensive business startup accelerator.

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Wrap-up of the Startup Community Leaders Mission USA 2018

Startup Catalyst

San Francisco, and the associated Bay Area, is home to Silicon Valley – the epicentre of startup activity – where an estimated 27,000 startups and 15,000 investors operate in an area roughly equivalent to the the Brisbane-to-Gold Coast region, and with a population of roughly 7 million people. What we did.

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

TechCrunch

Moreover, rumors of deeply unethical behavior at accelerators are starting to surface frequently. The most notable example was allegations of fraud at Newchip , a popular virtual startup accelerator. Another instance of negative press involved the On Deck accelerator, which laid off 25% of its staff in 2022. Peer groups.

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

David Teten VC

For emerging VC and private equity investors: accelerators, platforms, communities, and incubators. The Female Founded Club is a sourcing platform that investors use to find top female founded startups in need of capital. Free entry to Club events. Open Water Accelerator. VC recruiters list and compensation data.

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

Startup Catalyst

There’s really quite a lot we’ve been able get involved in, as we see businesses move out of that purely incubated phase. In some ways, it can seem a difficult ecosystem to access because some of the participants know each other really well, it moves on at quite a fast pace, and there are lots of different events. Attend events.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas. Google for Startups Accelerator. Summit Fellows. Blue Ridge Labs @ Robin Hood.

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Apple’s sustainability-focused Impact Accelerator invites first 15 Black- and brown-owned companies

TechCrunch

Brewster) – Supplies employee and event shuttles and other vehicles with an aim to replace gas-operated ones with EVs. Oceti Sakowin Power Authority (Chairman: Lyle Jack) – Not a company per se, but an NGO formed by six Sioux tribes dedicated to developing renewable energy in the Midwest and on reservations.