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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

Between our 15+ years at Founders’ Co-op and another 10+ running the Seattle-area Techstars programs, we’ve screened literally thousands of founding teams and invested in over 250 of the ones we thought were most promising. Aviel and I know something about this.

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Coworking Megatrend Predictions for 2020

GCUC

We also predicted the rise of high-end luxury brands ( see this recent Soho Investment ) with brands finding new and inventive ways to set themselves apart. We talked about consolidation and the continued growth due to a strong economy and investments. The WeWork effect could hold back investment in our industry.

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The New Economy Starts with Networks of Collaboration

Impact Hub

We witness in each one of our spaces across 5 regions the increased level of quality and professionalism of people’s work, the measurable social and environmental impact of their ventures, and the increased access to business support and investment capital that they have.

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Hair On A Deal

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

In a perfect world, everything about a potential investment will be confidence inducing. There will always be things about a potential investment that create heartburn. They have popularized a new form of work space, a new business model for it, and have they have built a global brand around shared workspaces.

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Mage aims to be the ‘Stripe for AI;’ raises $6.3M for developer tools to build AI into apps

TechCrunch

Mage’s technology is a low-code, cloud-based tool and user interface with a shared workspace similar to Figma. Darian Shirazi, general partner at Gradient Ventures, said via email that he found Mage while looking for an investment in the machine learning infrastructure space that didn’t require data engineering experience.

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Brazilian workspace-on-demand marketplace BeerOrCoffee snags $10M

TechCrunch

BeerOrCoffee describes itself as a B2B marketplace of workspaces on demand that aims to provide hybrid work solutions for companies. It offers over 1,100 shared workspaces in 160 Brazilian cities on its marketplace, including WeWork, Selina and Impact Hub. Image Credits: BeerOrCoffee. BeerOrCoffee practices what it preaches.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Ocean tech investor survey, AI and PR, L-1 visa options

TechCrunch

To learn more about the opportunities they’re chasing and discover how climate change is shaping their investment thesis, he surveyed: Daniela V. “Making the business of shared workspaces easier for startups certainly has its challenges, but it’s also a large and growing market,” writes Haje Jan Kamps.