Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JUNE 18, 2020

STATE COLLEGE, PA – On Wednesday, June 17, 2020, The Tech Celerator @StateCollege, a partnership with Invent Penn State that has helped create more than 130 new startups, hosted a zoom pitch event. The post THE TECHCELERATOR@STATE COLLEGE ANNOUNCES PITCH WINNERS! ” About the Ben Franklin Tech Celerator @ State College.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t feel like canceling LinkedIn just because occasionally a well-meaning but slightly not-clued-in person from a faraway place wants me to be their personal mentor, answer 3-questions for their high-school entrepreneurship project or take a sales pitch for their recruiting services. In Adam’s world, I’m rude.

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

The second Startup Community Leaders Mission to the USA took place from 11-18 March 2018, with 20 participants taking part, including 14 from 11 different regional towns in Queensland, 3 from Brisbane, one from Sydney, one from Adelaide, and one from New York (assisting the Beach City film crew). Why we run this particular mission.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

tl;dr + Techstars was once one of the world’s leading accelerator programs, but has steadily been eclipsed by Y combinator. Next, entire accelerator programs were created on behalf of corporate partners, promising them access to cohorts of world-class founders eager to listen to their needs and use their APIs.

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StartupNation

JUNE 1, 2021

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. The winners receive support, including an investment, to accelerate and scale their ventures. Keep it simple, stupid (KISS).

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

Startups are always risky, so jeopardizing your personal relationships a risk you should avoid if possible. Startup competitions. Pitch your business idea at a competition to earn startup funding. You can find startup competitions in various places throughout the world at just about any time of the year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Apply to participate below: Are you the founder of an established Boston-area startup and want to participate in the pitch off? Click here for the Startup Battlefield application. This application will allow you to apply for this Boston event and, if you choose, Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2023. Pitch-off!

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Paul G. Silva

DECEMBER 12, 2022

One can easily turn a KISS Canvas into a pitch deck for investors by simply creating slides that mirror the content in each row. I found that trying to filter out the information visually was very difficult, as you can see from this actual canvas I developed for a startup accelerator I was running in 2015… Get Your Own (free!).

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

AUGUST 12, 2019

With funding support from the Erie County Gaming Revenue Authority and business mentors provided by Ben Franklin and Gannon’s Small Business Development Center, the local entrepreneurs behind these startups have been participating in Ben Franklin’s business startup accelerator, the Tech Celererato r@Erie.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Founded in 2012, the accelerator is focused on developing early-stage companies tied to the University of California system. Attending a remote startup accelerator is absolutely worth it. The 17 startups presenting today were whittled down from 1,850 applicants, according to the accelerator.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Station F , the iconic startup campus in Paris, is revamping its Founders Program completely to turn it into an acceleration program. Founders who decide to join the accelerator will get many different benefits. For instance, they’ll learn about building a startup team and product-market fit.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Thousand Faces , a web3 community-based investment group, hosted its demo day on Wednesday with the top 10 startups from its Female Founder Accelerator program. The accelerator program’s first cohort accepted 30 startups from a pool of over 220 applicants across 76 countries. Company name: SOULA (legal name MAMATECH Inc.)

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2016

When Ohanian and Huffman first pitched Paul Graham of startup accelerator Y Combinator in Boston in June 2005, their idea–for a site called “Mmm”–was rejected. Great founders don’t quit, but do adapt. But as they were on a train out of town, dejected, Graham called Ohanian back.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 24, 2021

A quick glance into founder dating sites or startup accelerator applicant pools you will see that in most cases the tech founders are outweighed by at least 10 to 1. If this is all new to you, take a short course on Entrepreneurship or read The Lean Startup. Outline what is the problem, solution and the market.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Yes, today was the second day of pitches from Y Combinator , a U.S. startup accelerator with global outreach that conducts demo days twice a year. And we’re back! This year’s Summer 2022 cohort gave us hundreds of batch companies to consider.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Benioff challenged SOA founder Daniela Fernandez to find and accelerate 100 ocean-focused startups and projects back in 2019, and the organization more than doubled that goal. “We see startups leapfrogging across multiple accelerator programs to try and access new networks and funding.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 20, 2019

SOMERSET, PA – For the past two months, several tech-entrepreneurs have been participating in a business startup accelerator program, the Tech Celerator @Somerset. On March 14, 2019, they each made a graduation “pitch” to a team of judges from the surrounding area. appeared first on BFTP/CNP.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

The options for financing are seemingly endless: syndicates, public crowdfunding, VC firms, accelerators, debt financing, rolling funds, and, for the profitable few, bootstrapping. Cities like Miami, Pittsburgh and Austin have been drawing talent and wealth from Silicon Valley for years, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the trend.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

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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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

But to make sure that the startup idea can result in a profitable business, an entrepreneur needs to validate it. This validation often requires the startup to pitch in some money. Pre-Seed funding is the earliest funding round where a startup raises money to validate its problem-solution hypotheses, propositions, and demand.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

This week, in light of Y Combinator’s biannual Demo Day, Natasha and Alex asked about the utility of the parade of pitches. The question comes after Natasha’s latest Startups Weekly column, where she looked into the trend of everyone constantly trying to re-invent startup accelerators.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

In the rest of this newsletter, we’ll talk about chief inspiration officers, growing startup accelerators and a rare buzz we’re hearing about one tech company and its public market wishes. In this case, we have no idea how the old or the new attempts at Twitter are going to do, but we do know that this time has never mattered more.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. 500 Global, formerly branded under 500 Startups , has an accelerator that competes with YC. It’s demo day season. The moonshots.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Ben Franklin’s TechCelerator@Somerset is inviting the area’s emerging entrepreneurs to participate in an intensive 8-Week Startup Accelerator. With dozens of tech-startups already launched that have created nearly 200 full or part-time jobs in Central PA, this proven methodology can work for you too!

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For They will also be offered the opportunity to join a customized 6-month Google Developers Launchpad Accelerator program, including guidance from our nonprofit partner, DataKind, to jumpstart their work. Google for Startups Accelerator. Beyond the SBIR: Non-Dilutive Funding for Your Startup.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 15, 2015

First, faster sales cycles accelerate the discovery of a repeatable sales process. which pitch (cost or value)? Whether deliberate or not, many startups price their initial products at substantial discounts to their future price points or their competitors. Accelerating them can have a huge impact on your business.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

. “If you can’t generate demand locally, it is usually even more difficult to generate demand overseas,” Lim said, adding that many good Series B/C startups he has come across already have significant traction at home before they embarked on overseas expansion. Investing based on the startup’s heuristics.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 16, 2023

LIMBER was founded by Dr. Joshua Pelz and Dr. Luca De Vivo and is part of the medical technology accelerator in the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur (IGE) at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and Rady School of Management, and UC San Diego’s The Basement startup accelerator.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 25, 2022

Register K-Startup Grand Challenge(KSGC) 2022 edition has opened its doors for global startups to do business in South Korea. The biggest accelerator program, sponsored by the Korean government, supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (MSS), and organized by the National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), will be held for 3.5

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series. Details here.

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Don Dodge

APRIL 6, 2015

Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. Ycombinator has deep roots in the area.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For They will also be offered the opportunity to join a customized 6-month Google Developers Launchpad Accelerator program, including guidance from our nonprofit partner, DataKind, to jumpstart their work. Google for Startups Accelerator. Peacetech Accelerator. Higher Ground Labs.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

With Colorado as an ideal pilot community, the GCVF team has helped grow multiple staple initiatives in the rural Colorado startup ecosystem, including West Slope Startup Week , Telluride Venture Accelerator , Startup Colorado , Energize Colorado Gap Fund , and the Greater Colorado Pitch Series.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. Full disclosure: In 2016, I was 500 Startups’ Journalist-in-residence. I covered one demo day in person, spending most of my time backstage where founder teams practiced their pitches. Grafana’s early pitch deck — 12:00.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh, human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. You can often pick up significant market share in an economic downturn by just staying alive,” top startup accelerator Y Combinator wrote in an internal e-mail to its founders this week. Pitch Deck Teardown: BoxedUp’s $2.3M

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Startup accelerators are increasingly putting the brakes on demo days. The often flashy events reserved for founders to connect with investors have long been part of the likes of Y Combinator’s program, seen as the “graduation” of startups’ journey. Olympic team. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Catching you up, OneCard is a consumer credit card startup in India that also provides credit scoring services. Moving along, Y Combinator’s push to fund startups around the world is paying off. As it turned out, Bapu’s instincts served him well.

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