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. Teaching entrepreneurial skills is a worthy endeavor and likely offers career benefits to ambitious employees and their employers, but it is not the purpose of a startup accelerator.

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Gust

JANUARY 22, 2014

This is obviously a softball question that I’ve been Asked to Answer, as I’m the Founder/CEO of Gust. The answer, of course, is Gust —because that’s exactly the purpose behind the platform! Gust is the infrastructure that underlies much of the professional world of early stage finance.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When emerging entrepreneur David Davila started to develop his idea of a family business selling coffee, one of his friends recognized that he had a great idea and encouraged him to apply to Union Kitchen, a startup accelerator in the United States. Connect with your peers. Don’t worry about trying to reinvent the wheel.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

million in a pre-seed round, funding that the startup plans to use to develop its platform and grow its workforce — as it looks to expand its reach in the UK, its second market (after the U.A.E.), Classifieds, or peer to peer commerce in general, has been stuck in the same old way of operation since eBay showed up.

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Gust

JANUARY 22, 2014

This is obviously a softball question that I’ve been Asked to Answer, as I’m the Founder/CEO of Gust. The answer, of course, is Gust —because that’s exactly the purpose behind the platform! Gust is the infrastructure that underlies much of the professional world of early stage finance.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JUNE 20, 2020

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. It is ephemeral and vague. Metrics do that.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2023

Amid these turbulent times, the VC accelerator industry has emerged as a stalwart player. the free YC Startup School courses). Finally, the talent pool for tech startups has broadened immensely. Importantly, the traditional accelerator model has enjoyed the fruits of these potential paradigm shifts.

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