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BE 2.0: Why Culture Matters More Than Strategy

Paul G. Silva

Culture in Action: A Story from Valley Venture Mentors Let me share how this played out at Valley Venture Mentors (VVM), a nonprofit startup accelerator I helped lead. But our board chairman asked a simple question: “Is filling out forms fun?” It seemed logicalbetter matching would help entrepreneurs succeed, right?

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The Veteran Fund Announces Oversubscribed Fund and $100K Competition Winner

American Entrepreneurship

Head of Global Operations of The Founder Institute, the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, and the Co-Founder & COO of the Vet-Tech Startup Accelerator. “Veterans bring unmatched resilience, leadership, and mission-driven mindsets to the private sector,” said Ryan Micheletti.

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Gener8tor is the biggest startup accelerator you’ve never heard of…

TechCrunch

For the past decade, Gener8tor has been working to shift that by spinning up accelerators in local communities that have money but are underserved in terms of startup support. We spoke with the Gener8tor founders about why they are passionate about thinking about the startup ecosystem a little differently.

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

Startup Catalyst

We talked about how startups have changed over the last few years, what support has meant to them, Startup Catalyst missions and their impact, as well as ways to get involved in the startup community. He has been a supporter of the startup community since before the word startup was in general conversation.

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Why You Don’t Want to Miss the MyEO DealExchange DX22 Conference

Entrepreneurs' Organization

It’s an incredibly valuable event for both EO Accelerators and EO members with startups that want to attract investments in addition to EO members who are looking for the right investment opportunity. The DX event is so powerful because of the networking quality among the MyEO DX community. Who can attend DX22?

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Snap debuts its fifth cohort of Yellow accelerator startups

TechCrunch

Shoplook — Is fostering a community-driven platform for visual self-expression, curation and inspiration through mood boards. Meet SelfieCircus and 8 more in Snapchat’s new startup accelerator. Ettos — Is making an e-commerce platform for beauty products, supporting inclusive beauty, based in Colombia.

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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America

TechCrunch

Vale do Dendê coordinates with local startups, investors and government agencies to support entrepreneurship and innovation and runs startup acceleration programs specifically focusing on supporting Afro-Brazilian founders. It attracted backing from Facebook Brasil and grew 770% in 2020.