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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

One of the questions I heard most often from commenters was: “if Techstars is an example of a failed accelerator, what does a good one look like?” This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. This has not been our experience.

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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. Aussie startups can and should plug in.

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5 things you may have missed in Atomico’s 2021 Europe report

TechCrunch

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The Exchange has been tracking Europe’s startup acceleration for years now. For reference, that figure was below $10 billion in Q2 2019, Q3 2019, Q4 2019 and Q2 2020. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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Productivity platform Loopin helps work teams wrangle meetings

TechCrunch

This means that before the next meeting, each person has to refer to multiple apps to prepare and check the status of different tasks. “In During meetings, team members use various note-taking apps to write down takeaways and next steps, then share those over email and Slack and create tasks in a project management apps.

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The latecomer advantage in startups

TechCrunch

With some of the ugly out of the way — my words, not hers — T2 has examples it can refer back to on how to handle tensions around virality, doxxing and more. It just made me think about that larger comprehension coupled with the nimbleness of a startup. As always, you can follow me on Twitter or Instagram.

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This Angel Investor Shares 11 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Raise Smart Money

StartupNation

However, what is often direly needed is how to appeal to investors and raise smart money — knowledge that is essential for fundraising and a master key to building, accelerating and scaling your new venture. Roosevelt’s advice resonates here: “Be sincere, be brief, be seated.”. Warm introductions.

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VC Lab introduces free fund formation documents to make startup investing cheaper and easier

TechCrunch

But if they get more serious than personal angel investing, you refer them to a fund formation lawyer. VC Lab was formed within the Founder Institute , a global startup accelerator that has already made similar contributions to the startup ecosystem. Then they see the price and have to think twice.”

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