TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Early-stage founders need mentorship and support to build a successful startup, and conventional wisdom says, “Get thee to an incubator or an accelerator!” However, the two programs are not interchangeable — they serve very different purposes — and there are roughly 500 accelerators and 1,400 incubators in the U.S.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 24, 2014

Every single topic about running a company has been written about ad nauseum, there are incubators, accelorators, mentoring programs, events, talks, etc. These days, there are a ton of options for you if you''re a startup seeking guidence. Venture capitalists play an important role in burgeoning ecosystems.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 19, 2022

Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. The post 500 Founders: Rick Kiessig, Hannah Hunt, Matthew Jackson & Jenni Matheson appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine. Rick Kiessig – Cofounder.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

They''re new to the gig, super excited about all its potential, and getting out there selling founders hope for that one big gamechanging deal. That''s really all I have to give to the founders I back. Here are a bunch of things I don''t do: I won''t do office hours anymore at incubators and accelerators.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Chroma , a startup working to build a new type of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices, is now adding a Twitter co-founder to its board. The venture most notably incubated the blogging platform Medium. However, in 2013, Stone and the others shifted their focus to individual startups. million in seed funding (5.1

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In Y Combinator’s early days, founders would move to Palo Alto, split a two-bedroom with five others to save money and trade notes around the clock with their new, like-minded roommates. Now that they can work from literally anywhere, many entrepreneurs are forming homes with other founders. ” Image Credits: The Launch House.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We now have incubators, accelorators, business plan competitions, and government backed seed programs, but it's not clear to me that this is where the pain is or where the impact is. I had lunch with Cyrus, the founder of ZocDoc, the other day.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

A recurring theme: Serial founders. Muforo points out that aside from startups building fintech infrastructure, the caliber of founders was another reason pre-seed funding peaked last year. He told TechCrunch that trust between the VCs and founders involved played a major role in most pre-seed rounds last year. . ” . .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

It’s a known fact that the number of venture dollars flowing to Black and Latinx founders is dismally low. 31, Black and Latinx founders had raised $2.3 billion in funding that had gone to all founders up until that point in 2020. . Venture firms rush to find ways to support Black founders and investors.

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

she joined the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, where she developed a first-of-its-kind EV Network Technician Training Curriculum. Shortly after, Terry and Ellis were accepted into Elemental Excelerator’s startup incubator and have landed contracts with major EV charging network providers like EV Connect and SparkCharge.

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MAY 14, 2012

It needs to go house to house--founders and employees getting matched through individual e-mail intros, deals happening over handshakes, and startups getting recruited into your ecosystem one at a time. If you want to connect to an innovation community, there isn't a better place to start than someone who invests in it.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Ben Franklin CNP’s commitment to CC4H Robotics extends beyond financial sponsorship and has helped facilitate demonstrations of the robots to companies within their incubator network, providing valuable exposure for CC4H Robotics and fostering potential partnerships.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mumbai-based startup announced today that it has raised $36 million in equity and debt led by Varanium Nexgen Fintech Fund, DMI Sparkle Fund, along with returning investors Chiratae Ventures and Dream Incubator Japan. For founders without the right network, it’s hard to find investors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

The degree to which we get involved with the idea validation may vary depending on the goals and needs of the project, the founders and/or stakeholders, and the stage at which the project is when we begin our collaboration. We can either collect them directly from our clients (if they have them ready after attending incubators, etc.),

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Atom’s founders have published the details of their techniques in Nature Chemistry, and says it’s working on a COVID-19 test as well as therapies for the virus and other conditions. For instance, a DNA machine could lock onto COVID-19 viruses and then release a chemical signal indicating infection before killing the virus.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 28, 2011

This summer, in NYC alone, over 50 companies will be participating in various incubator programs. Frankly, I don't think a lot of first time entrepreneurs are really grasping how difficult it is to succeed, and the impact their companies will need to make to acheive success. It's fine to fail. Your time is incredibly valuable.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 18, 2023

This remarkable achievement has now propelled its visionary founders, Donggyun Ko, Chaeyoung Lee, and Donghwan Shin, onto the prestigious Forbes 30 Under 30 list in consumer technology. With a laser focus on meeting the evolving needs of millions of Gen MZ users, Noutecompany continues to soar to new heights.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

Just ask the founder of JetBlue (Azul Brazilian Airlines), Dave Neeleman. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. My guess is that many VCs are. And so are most startup CEOs for that matter. Many through history became entrepreneurs precisely because they were unemployable. Sounds obvious.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. Nothing blows up great opportunities faster than founders who are constantly fighting.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Tono Mandly doesn’t consider his company, Riogrande , an e-commerce aggregator, but instead as one whose mission is to build local brands, through acquisition and incubation, for the emerging middle class of Latin American consumers. Founders are looking for us because there are no other players who have our growth rates.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It needs a couple of successful exits, which in turn drives angel investing as entrepreneurs growing increasingly wealthy look to help new founders building companies reach their own goals. It requires accelerators and incubators and coworking spaces to help nurture early ideas, and it needs VC firms investing across stages.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Contributed to EO by Steve Ferman, an EO New Jersey member, serial entrepreneur, and founder of 4 Pillar Coach. These groups are easy to find and fairly inexpensive to join.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As VCs we’re inundated with emails from founders, friends, colleagues, angels, seed investors, VCs, law firms, venture banks, corporates and so forth with their favorite deals. ” And then there are incubators and accelerators. .” What do I mean? Defense is when you react to others. It’s inbound.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2022

Silicon Valley investor Peter Relan, who helped incubate the company in 2018 (he also helped get Discord off the ground and served on its board until 2020), likens it to a “fully autonomous” call service center.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Maesa’s Beauty Incubator panel included Maesa CEO Piyush Jain who was joined by Chief Brand Officer Oshiya Savur and Chief Growth Officer Scott Kestenbaum, Hairitage Founder and CEO Mindy McKnight, Create & Cultivate Founder Jaclyn Johnson and Motivational Speaker and Writer Jodi-Ann Burey.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Budget-minded entrepreneurs and early-stage startup founders take heed — this is no time to procrastinate. Don’t wait…the early bird gets the…SAVINGS: Buy a $249 founder pass and save $200 before prices increase on April 1 — that’s no joke. so he’ll give practical advice on how to stay alive and thrive.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 16, 2025

James covers the genesis of Ministry of Awesome following the Christchurch earthquakes in 2011, and provides updates on Ministry of Awesome approaches to startup founder support and programming. We run programs like Founder Catalyst, which is our flagship incubation nine-month long program that happens year-round.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 2, 2023

The Saigon Innovation Hub (SIHUB) is a startup incubator and accelerator that offers mentorship, training, networking opportunities, a co-working space, plus access to funding and resources through its network of investors and partners. VAN connects entrepreneurs with experienced investors and industry experts who can offer guidance.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

With a focus on designing, building and growing mobile and web apps, Appetiser’s co-founders Jamie Shostak and Michael MacRae were endorsed by several clients who worked with them from the earliest days of their projects. “Every startup has to start with an idea. We want to enable startups to conquer international markets.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Levin joined Heartcore Capital in 2019 from Global Founders Capital, the billion-dollar VC arm of Rocket Internet, where he was responsible for investments in Canva, Heyjobs, Instarem, Anyfin and others. As a founder, it’s your job to manage financial and operational risks. But going abroad can also destroy value just as quickly.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 17, 2021

When we study real accounts of innovation, we find that critical moves are often preceded by long spells of reflection or incubation–which are absent from innovation models. A fantastic example is Demis Hassabis, co-founder of the machine learning AI lab DeepMind. In 2009 he went to Silicon Valley to find seed investors.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The 10 or so founders chosen for Converge will receive $1 million each and admission to five weeks of office hours, workshops and events with OpenAI staff, as well as early access to OpenAI models and “programming tailored to AI companies.”

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Venture Hacks

APRIL 17, 2019

The investor’s job is to listen and decide whether the founders are smart, honest, and hard-working. Incentives influence the advice you get from VCs, lawyers, incubators, and everybody else. The best source for angel investing advice is other angels and founders. These investors don’t fall in love with a business.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Every time I talk to someone about the work we do at Founders’ Co-op , I have to first explain that we don’t really care about technology or business ideas per se. Aviel and I know something about this.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

Postmates founder Bastian Lehmann’s new crypto startup TipTop was lightly teased out a few weeks ago, but now the stealth startup is sharing some info on its early funding, though there’s not much info on what they’re actually doing with that money.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

Microsoft has today announced plans to support 10,000 startups in Africa over the next five years through a series of initiatives including partnerships with accelerators and incubators across the continent. The Founders Hub also includes opportunities to co-sell to Microsoft’s corporate and enterprise customers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Opeyemi Awoyemi , one of Nigeria’s well-known serial founders, is back with another outfit. Awoyemi choosing this route is quite interesting, especially as many African founders either launch syndicates or venture capital funds post- or during their entrepreneurial journies. Fast Forward acts as the company’s co-founder.

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