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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code. With overhead like that, it’s going to be impossible for the local schools to educate good startup talent at the rate that the community can educate itself.

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Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup

Both Sides of the Table

The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship. This education will continue. But wait, does that make Launchpad LA an incubator now? We sort of think of ourselves as an “accelerator” who provides strong education & mentorship. So What is Different for Class Three?

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Pakistan edtech startup Maqsad gets $2.1M pre-seed to make education more accessible

TechCrunch

Taha Ahmed and Rooshan Aziz left their jobs in strategy consulting and investment banking in London earlier this year in order to found a mobile-only education platform startup, Maqsad , in Pakistan, with a goal “to make education more accessible to 100 million Pakistani students.” Maqsad announced today its $2.1

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The bar is higher

This is going to be BIG.

More recently, Jim and Vinny the founders of Yipit taught themselves how to code to get their service up and running, after working in investment banking. There are incubators to help you out on the financing side, too. The success of YCombinator and Techstars has spawned countless new incubators. Don't want to learn code?

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Is there an incubator for aspiring Angel Investors or VCs?

Gust

No, but there are several sets of courses on angel investing that can provide a good base from which to start. Another course (that is getting a bit long in the tooth now) is Angel Investing as a Team Sport, developed by the National Association of Seed and Venture Funds (now part of SSTI). Invested Interests'

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CCNY Student-Led Start-up Organovis Wins USD25,000 Top Prize at Standard Chartered 2023 Women in Tech Incubator Competition

American Entrepreneurship

Organovis hopes to transform drug testing by making it more precise, ethical, and affordable NEW YORK, May 8, 2023 – The City College of New York (“CCNY”) student-led start-up, Organovis has won the 2023 Women in Tech (“WiT”) Incubator Competition. We are thrilled to be named the winner of this year’s Women in Tech Incubator competition.

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Lessons for Brooklyn: Information Spillover at the Roots of NYC Tech

This is going to be BIG.

Talk of buildings and incubators reminded me of the story of Building 20 from "Where Good Ideas Come From". ".Legendary The "meetup" culture of NYC, where there are three great educational events to go to every night is how the community bootstrapped itself.