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How to run a startup accelerator

Founders Coop

In that prior post, I had offered Y Combinator as a positive example, but I didn’t break down exactly why. This post is an effort to unpack what’s required of a startup accelerator to truly serve the needs of high-performing founders. Step 1: Find the best founders An uncomfortable truth about this work is that not all founders are created equal.

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Vista Equity Partners AI Hackathon Winners Announced

American Entrepreneurship

One hundred thirty participants on 27 teams drawn from V ista portfolio companies worked to build innovative enterprise software solutions while connecting with their peers. Smith, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners.

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What Makes a Great Independent Board Member?

Both Sides of the Table

Industry Expertise You don’t need a peer from another startup as your independent?—?you you can build that with your personal peer network. It can start 2–1 founders to investors and then sometimes moves to 3–2 but sometime around the A, B or C round the idea of “independent” directors comes up. Yes, this is a thing.

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Celebrating 2021 Accomplishments and Looking Ahead to New Opportunities

Angel Capital Association

By: Pat Gouhin, Chief Executive Officer During each year’s transition to the next, we take the chance to reflect on the accomplishments and challenges of the past, but our focus remains on the future. We owe a debt of gratitude to our tireless volunteers and professional staff for their leadership, expertise, and dedication to our mission.

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We’re disrupting TechCrunch Disrupt: 8 stages, 3 days, 1 city

TechCrunch

Each industry stage will also feature partner sessions , where TechCrunch partners get the spotlight to share their POV on their sector directly to an audience of their peers. Fintech Stage: Digs into the evolution of monetary exchanges across DeFi, challenger banks, blockchain, NFTs and web3. Sessions will include Google and Citizen Lab.

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 1

Ecosystem Builder Hub

I asked them to treat me like a funder. The ecosystem building process can be nonlinear and multidimensional, and there is a need for measurements that are responsive to complexity and change. To advance metrics and methods for this field, we need more dialogue and stronger feedback loops between researchers and ecosystem builders.

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Indonesian SME lending platform Alami scores pre-Series B funding

AsiaTechDaily

Founded by 2018 by Dima Djani, Harza Sandityo, and Bembi Juniar, Alama is a Shariah-based financial technology peer-to-peer lending company. The platform currently has more than 111,000 peer-to-peer investors involved in almost 10,000 projects across the nation focused on exponential growth of Indonesian SMEs.