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| Sep 6, 2022 |
Techstars Relaunching Healthcare Accelerator In LA
| Startup accelerator operator Techstars said that it is re-launching its healthcare program in Los Angeles. According to Techstars, it is working with Cedars-Sinai, Point32Health, UCI Health, and UnitedHealthcare to relaunch its accelerator,... |
| May 2, 2022 | Business
Business | Colorado coding students left hanging after CEO laid off instructor 3 days before final exam | In late March, a group of students from Justice Reskill’s front-end coding cohort logged onto their computers early on a Saturday morning, ready to take their final exam.
It had been a rocky week for the Denver-based nonprofit, which once g... |
| Mar 28, 2022 | This rising star in Colorado’s startup scene attracted big contracts and well-known funders. How’d it all fall apart? | Jolene Montoya thought her life had taken a turn for the better.
It was early last year and she had just been laid off. A friend suggested she apply for a position with Justice Reskill, a budding Denver nonprofit working to teach those invo... |
| Jun 8, 2021 | Meet the 10 Startups in Techstars' 2021 Space Accelerator Class | Techstars' Space Accelerator took off this week with its third class of space-related companies that make everything from AI-powered smart cameras to technology that can anticipate celestial collisions.
The 10 startups selected for the comp... |
| Jul 30, 2019 |
Techstars Raises $42M For Startup Acceleration Efforts
| Startup accelerator operator Techstars--which has a big presence in Los Angeles--has raised a big, $42M funding round, led by SVB Financial Group (the holding company of Silicon Valley Bank), and which also included Foundry Group and its ot... |
| Oct 11, 2017 |
Techstars LA Debuts First Class Of Startups
| Techstars LA, one of three, Los Angeles area startup accelerator programs run by Techstars, launched the first class of startups at its first Demo Day on Tuesday at the El Rey Theater. The ten startups that presented at the Demo Day include... |
| Oct 21, 2015 |
Techstars Launches New Healthcare Accelerator In LA
| Startup accelerator operator Techstars has opened up a its second, startup accelerator in Los Angeles today, the Techstars Healthcare Accelerator. The new accelerator is being run alongside Cedars-Sinai, and will focus on health and healthc... |
| Apr 11, 2012 | An alternative to incubators: the co-working space | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you’re a startup, you’ve probably considered j... |
| Nov 16, 2011 | Busyflow brings your cloud apps onto one screen, releases its private beta today | How many tabs does one have opened in a web browser at any one time? Managing documents, emails, calendar, notes, sales leads, tasks and contacts located in different clouds can be inconvenient, and the number of apps only goes up as new on... |
| Nov 8, 2011 | Launchpad LA Receives VC Funding: $50,000 Per Startup | Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. There are significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top V... |
| Oct 21, 2011 | MuckerLab Launches | MuckerLab, a Los Angeles-based startup accelerator, has officially launched.
Founded by Erik Rannala, William Hsu, Greg Bettinelli and Yan-David Erlich, MuckerLab aims to provide Internet software, services, and media entrepreneurs, which w... |
| Oct 20, 2011 | New TechStars Network Member MuckerLab Launches In L.A. | MuckerLab, a new startup accelerator and member of the TechStars Network, is launching today in L.A. The three-month program will provide its selected startups with $21,000 in seed funding, plus the typical incubator benefits like shared of... |
| Oct 4, 2011 | TechStars Network to expand incubator model to Australia | A TechStars-based model is to launch in Australia next year, with the celebrated US start-up incubator handing a licence to an Adelaide-based firm via its TechStars Network program, StartupSmart can reveal.
SME Growth Capital was chosen to ... |
| Sep 21, 2011 | With $100k bonus funding, TechStars startups get Christmas in September | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Startup incubator TechStars announced today it ha... |
| Sep 15, 2011 | Top 10 start-up incubators | Start-up incubators are not exactly new. The concept of helping foster promising young businesses formally kicked off in 1959, when the Batavia Industrial Center in New York opened its doors for the first time.
However, the format of busine... |
| Sep 9, 2011 | Giant Thinkwell Ditches Facebook Games, Dives into the “Live Web” with Flickmob | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The Seattle startup that put hip-hop legend Sir Mix-a-Lot back in the national headlines is making a big shift. Giant Thinkwell, a member of the first Seattle TechStars class,... |
| Sep 6, 2011 | The Entrepreneurial Enlightenment | What makes startups succeed or fail? This is a question we are intent on answering. We believe increasing the success rate of startups has the potential to dramatically increase economic growth all around the world. On May 28th, we released... |
| Sep 5, 2011 | Why we joined TechStars | Guest Commentary: Most of the time people associate accelerators like Y Combinator and TechStars with teams who have little to no entrepreneurial experience. My co-founder, Marcelo Calbucci, and I are not the stereotypical team.
We are both... |
| Aug 26, 2011 | Taking the plunge: The inside story of how two Israeli entrepreneurs ended up at TechStars Seattle | Editor’s Note: There are always a million reasons not to do something. Starting a company means daring to ignore them. This guest post by Shlomi Atar is the inside story of two entrepreneurs from Israel who chose to fly 8,000 miles to parti... |
| Aug 25, 2011 | Meet the lucky two percent: A peek at the startups that just entered TechStars Seattle | Inside the TechStars incubator in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood
TechStars Seattle just accepted their second batch of entrepreneurs — 10 new hatchlings who are furiously writing code (probably right now as we speak) in all-out eff... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | Why emerging markets need startup accelerators to produce gold | While I was living in Silicon Valley for a couple of months earlier this year, I had the opportunity to see how a number of the startup accelerators over there function, and also to speak to a number of tech entrepreneurs that passed throug... |
| Aug 24, 2011 | Why emerging markets need startup accelerators to produce gold | While I was living in Silicon Valley for a couple of months earlier this year, I had the opportunity to see how a number of the startup accelerators over there function, and also to speak to a number of tech entrepreneurs that passed throug... |
| Aug 23, 2011 | Brightkite founders launch Forkly, a fun app for foodies | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
A new food-focused app called Forkly brings the discovery of delicious dishes to center stage — and it’s a beautiful stage, indeed. The... |
| Aug 22, 2011 | SimpleGeo Cofounder Matt Galligan Steps Down; Will Focus On Helping TechStars And A Non-Profit | Last November, location startup SimpleGeo brought in former Digg CEO Jay Adelson to replace co-founder Matt Galligan as CEO. At the time, Galligan slid into the role of Chief Strategy Officer and became more of a public face for the company... |
| Aug 15, 2011 | Minnesota Health IT startup pulls out of business incubator | But barely two months later, Qualtrx and a second startup, Paypongo, pulled out. Qualtrx’s CEO Rashaun Sourles declined comment, but Paypongo told the Star Tribune that the company had not looked deeply into how much startup equity Project ... |
| Aug 10, 2011 | Welcoming @Occipital! | |
| Aug 4, 2011 | Startup Accelerator TechStars Hatches 12 New Companies In Boulder (Here’s A Peek) | Today, seed fund and accelerator, TechStars, will be hosting its “Demo Day” in Boulder, where it will showcase its 12 newest startups. The accelerator expects over 500 people to be on hand, including investors and venture funds, who will be... |
| Aug 2, 2011 | Startups On TV: TechStars Teams Up With Bloomberg To Offer An Inside Look At Building A Business | Move over American Idol, and move over Survivor? There’s a new reality show (okay, documentary-reality series) in town, but luckily no one’s getting voted off the island. In this tech TV version, it’s startups and their founders iterating, ... |
| Jul 22, 2011 | Portland Seed Fund tests public-private VC model: Could a similar idea take root in Seattle? | Can Portland cultivate new seedlings (Photo: Rev Stan)
On the GeekWire podcast last week, we chatted with Rick Turoczy of Portland’s Silicon Florist blog about the differences between the Seattle and Portland startup communities. One of the... |
| Jul 14, 2011 | Shelby.tv Raises $1.5 Million To Give You Personalized Channels Of Online Video | Just glancing at YouTube’s growth numbers, it doesn’t take a genius like me to figure out that people are spending more time watching video on the web — and that online video is going to increasingly eat away at the amount of time they spen... |
| Jul 13, 2011 | Andy Sack on Lighter Capital: Expanding Beyond RevenueLoan to Finance More “Weird Stuff that Makes Money” | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Premium goat-milk ice cream. Bouncy-house rentals for kids’ parties. Electronic medical records for psychiatrists. None of these sound like your textbook target for early stag... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Tandem Launches Mobile Incubator; Will Invest $200K In Each Startup | Tandem Entrepreneurs, an incubator and capital fund founded in 2007, invests both money and time in early-stage startups, but founders Doug Renert and Sunil Bhargava don’t consider themselves VCs. Instead, they’re just a group of entreprene... |
| Jun 17, 2011 | Sir Mix-A-Lot, Giant Thinkwell to Posse Up | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle social-game startup Giant Thinkwell, a TechStars company hatched at a Startup Weekend last year, is getting ready to roll out its first official celebrity-branded game... |
| Jun 15, 2011 | Investors Flock To Boston To See TechStars’ 12 Cool New Startups (Here’s A Peek) | Today, seed fund and accelerator, TechStars, put on its “Demo Day” in Boston to debut 12 new companies to the world. Investors came in from far and wide to vet these young startups and to potentially take out their checkbooks. TechStars est... |
| Jun 14, 2011 | Hero’s Journey: A Look Inside This Year’s Class of TechStars Boston Startups | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Incubator, schmincubator. The innovation community has had its fill of incubators and accelerators, hasn’t it? Well, this one is a little different.
As echoes of Commencement ... |
| Jun 3, 2011 | The Next Boston-Area IPO, New Incubators, Unsung Heroes, and the Lost (& Found) Generation: 10 Tech Tidbits | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
As we enter the summer months, I wanted to give readers a quick look into my reporter’s notebook. I have been shifting into high gear with events and other things, but once th... |
| May 21, 2011 | Wired goes inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley’s hottest tech incubator | I just finished reading Wired’s in-depth piece on Y Combinator, the 6-year-old Silicon Valley incubator which in the words of author Steven Levy offers an “unmatchable entrée into the otherwise closed world of high-stakes Internet entrepren... |
| May 10, 2011 | Email Delivery System SendGrid Announces New Pricing Model, Now You Can Pay-As-You-Go | Unlike most, SendGrid, the TechStars-incubated email management and delivery system, loves dealing with overloaded inboxes. In fact, it loves email so much that it has delivered over 9 billion emails for more than 23K companies. This is pro... |
| May 5, 2011 | A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference | Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable
I’m in Seattle this week.
People keep asking me if I’ve “seen anything interesting.” Of ... |
| May 2, 2011 | TechStars Beats Y Combinator, Ranked Best Accelerator Program in U.S. | A number of new startup accelerator and incubator programs have popped up lately, a response no doubt to the success of the Y Combinator and TechStars programs and the success of the programs’ participants. At some level, many of these prog... |
| May 2, 2011 | Top 15 U.S. Startup Accelerators & Incubators Ranked; TechStars, Y Combinator Top Rankings | There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with pure co-working spaces) as they offer entrepreneurs a way to spend a few months laser focused on a... |
| Apr 24, 2011 | Higher Education’s Toughest Test | Editor’s note: This post is co-authored by guest contributors Jon Bischke and Semil Shah. Bischke founded eduFire and RG Labs and is an advisor to Altius Education and Udemy. Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Int... |
| Apr 15, 2011 | Rewind: Andy Sack on startups, TechStars and the promise of Seattle’s tech scene | Andy Sack in the KIRO-FM studios
Joining us for our latest GeekWire Podcast was Andy Sack of TechStars Seattle, Founders Co-op and Revenue Loan — the hard-charging startup guru whose clarion call for the Seattle tech community is to “Get F—... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | OnSwipe Brings Tablet Publishing To The Browser (TCTV Demo) | As tablets become the preferred digital reading device, every publisher out there is creating their own iPad apps. And soon they will have to create Android apps and maybe RIM Playbook apps and HP WebOS apps too. Or they can keep on publish... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | TechStars NYC: An Interview With David Tisch and David Cohen | TechStars the seed accelerator and startup incubator that got it's start in Boulder, Colorado in 2007, has been expanding like mad. They have now taken on branches in Boulder, Boston, Seattle and most recently New York. TechStars also made ... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | Two More NYC TechStars To Watch: Nestio And ThinkNear | TechStars NYC killed it today with its first ever Demo Day in New York City. I’ve been to a lot of startup pitch events, and I felt that the caliber of the companies and pitches were better than most other incubator and startup events in Ne... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | Friendslist Wants To Topple Craigslist By Being Even More Social | So many companies have tried to topple Craigslist, and they have all failed. Jonathan Wegener thinks they’ve all done it the wrong way. Today at Techstars Demo Day, he introduced Friendslist, a listing service that taps into your social net... |
| Apr 14, 2011 | TechStars Demo Day Preview: Immersive Signs And Veri Cool Learning | Today is Demo Day for TechStars NYC. I’ll be at the event, but here is a little preview from when I visited last week. TechStars organizers David Cohen and David Tisch showed me around the New York office. In this video, I get a peak at a s... |
| Apr 9, 2011 | GeekWire Podcast: Sports, Twitter, beer, apps and startups | We’ve got sports on our brains this week, with a roundup of the latest technological “innovations” at Mariners and Sounders games — including a beer vendor building his business through Twitter and a new Sounders app that John hopes to use ... |
| Apr 7, 2011 | Orbotix Scores $5 Million. Because You All Want Smartphone-Controlled Robotic Balls | Exclusive – Boulder-based smart toy company Orbotix has raised $5 million in Series B financing from Foundry Group and Highway 12 Ventures as it prepares for a Fall launch of its Sphero, a robotic ball that can be controlled by iOS and Andr... |
| Apr 6, 2011 | In The Belly Of The TechStars Beast. Have Seed Valuations Gone Insane? (TCTV) | Earlier today, I dropped by the TechStars NY office to check out some of the startups in its inaugural class in New York City before they do their big Demo Day next week. The place was buzzing, and the startups I saw were all way more polis... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | TechStars Takes In $8M for Startup Programs | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
TechStars, the seed-stage investment fund and startup boot camp, said today it has raised $8 million for its mentorship programs in Boston, Boulder, New York, and Seattle. The... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | TechStars lands $8 million | TechStars has raised $8 million in fresh funding as it looks to support its technology incubator programs in Seattle, Boston, Boulder and New York. TechCrunch reports that more than 50 venture funds and more than 25 individual angels partic... |
| Mar 29, 2011 | Startup Incubator TechStars Raises $8 Million | Startup incubator TechStars has raised $8 million in new funding for its programs in Boston, Boulder, New York, and Seattle. The new funding comes from more than fifty venture funds and over 25 individual angel investors. This brings the in... |
| Mar 25, 2011 | TechStars Takes Off, Jumptap Touts Patents and Partnerships, & Other Tech Tidbits Around Town | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There were a number of tech developments this week that I didn’t get a chance to digest yet. That’s in part because I couldn’t eat solid food for, like, two days. Let’s just m... |
| Mar 9, 2011 | NYC SeedStart Is On The Hunt For Digital Media Startups | If you have an idea for a startup in New York City, this might just be the summer for you to get that idea off the ground. There is no shortage of startup accelerators, incubators, and other venture programs to help get you started—from Tec... |
| Mar 8, 2011 | Startupbootcamp now adding Dublin to the list | Wow, that was fast. TechStars’ first international affiliate, Startupbootcamp, literally just announced its plans to expand the Copenhagen-based startup mentoring program into Madrid, London and Berlin later this year. And now Dublin has be... |
| Mar 8, 2011 | David Lifson: “I would definitely consider Philadelphia over San Francisco” | This is Exit Interview, a weekly interview series with someone who has left Philadelphia, perhaps for another country or region or even just out of city limits and often taking talent, business and jobs with them. If you or someone you know... |
| Mar 8, 2011 | Dublin: Europe’s next startup petri dish? | Startup Bootcamp, a European startup accelerator network and Techstars affiliate, just added Dublin to its existing locations of Copenhagen and Madrid. London and Berlin will follow in 2012.
Ireland’s tech scene continues to expand in spite... |
| Mar 6, 2011 | It’s March – Time for TechStars’ Startup Madness Tournament | March means March Madness, of course – the time of year when eyes turn to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship, one of the most watched sports events of the year.
The startup accelerator TechStars is getting in on the action with its own ... |
| Mar 5, 2011 | Gotham Gal On Startups | The Goodwin Proctor "Founders Toolbox" blog posted an interview with the Gotham Gal yesterday. It's very good. So I'm cross posting it here.
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Name, Age, Current Occupation: Joanne Wilson, 49, Blogger, Angel Investor, Mentor... |
| Mar 3, 2011 | TechStars Doubling Down on NYC | David Tisch has been lobbying for a summer TechStars session in New York since the day he signed on as director and realized the inaugural incubator had some of the strongest applicants he’s seen. Excited, he proposed a second session to Te... |
| Mar 2, 2011 | Dealometry, a Men’s Daily Bargain Site with TechStars Roots, Unveils its First Deal | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
TechStars mentor Bob Crimmins is rolling out a new startup with heavy accelerator roots: Dealometry, a daily-deals site for men. Dealometry’s technology comes from Deal Co-op,... |
| Feb 23, 2011 | Make Sense Of Your Social Photos With VVall's GRID | Ever find yourself posting a ton of pictures to Twitter and Facebook and Dailybooth and so on and so forth, just to have them fall into the digital abyss? The people behind vvall, a stealthish mobile photo app, have created GRID, a humble p... |
| Feb 17, 2011 | TechStars & Kauffman Foundation Team Up To Simplify Accelerator Application Process | TechStars is joining forces with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to help simplify access to the growing number of accelerator programs. As part of the partnership, the Kauffman Foundation will provide TechStars with $200,000 funding to... |
| Feb 15, 2011 | TechStars Network Wants One Startup Application To Rule Them All | Applying to startup programs these days is a little like applying to colleges. There are so many of them, it is hard to decide which ones to try to get into. TechStars wants to streamline that process, at least for founders applying to any ... |
| Feb 10, 2011 | Afrilabs: Providing a Path for Africa’s Technology Entrepreneurs | Africa has a burgeoning technology community – and now has as a formalized collaboration among the continent’s tech incubators called Afrilabs.
The goal of this network organization is to associate and connect the African technology communi... |
| Feb 8, 2011 | Startup America—Dead on Arrival | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
For its first few decades Silicon Valley was content flying under the radar of Washington politics. It wasn’t until Fairchild and Intel were almost bankrupted by Japanese semi... |
| Feb 8, 2011 | Startup America - dead on arrival | Not much will happen until entrepreneurs and VC's have a seat at the table For its first few decades, Silicon Valley was content flying under the radar of Washington politics. It wasn’t until Fairchild and Intel were almost bankrupted by Ja... |
| Feb 5, 2011 | Introducing the Startup Genome Project | The Economic Significance of the Startup Genome
The role of technology entrepreneurship in our global economy has never been more important. The service and industrial sectors have dominated the global economy for hundreds of years but soon... |
| Feb 4, 2011 | 10 great start-up schemes from around the world | It’s official: Australia is the second easiest place in the world to start a business, according to the World Bank.
Aside from the ease of starting and the healthy numbers of people who run businesses in Australia, there are several impress... |
| Feb 1, 2011 | White House Startup Investment Coincides with Sweeping Changes for TechStars, Y Combinator, Other Incubators: A Road to Recovery, or Another Bubble? | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s been an unforgettable seven days for tech entrepreneurs—as if somebody poured startup juice into the nation’s water supply.
First President Obama dedicates a good chunk o... |
| Jan 31, 2011 | Startup America: A Campaign To Celebrate, Inspire And Accelerate Entrepreneurship | Note from the editor: This is a guest post from Aneesh Chopra, United States Chief Technology Officer.
During last week’s State of the Union address, President Obama challenged the Nation to out-educate, out-innovate, and out-build our comp... |
| Jan 31, 2011 | IBM, Intel, TechStars and the White House start up America | No, America didn’t suffer a breakdown. But according to a “Startup America” campaign launched by the White House to encourage high-growth entrepreneurship in the U.S., it could use a jump-start of entrepreneurial energy. Multiple tech compa... |
| Jan 31, 2011 | TechStars Accelerator to Mentor Other Accelerators | Today TechStars announced the TechStars Network, a sort of accelerator franchise that bestows the TechStars brand upon 17 independently owned accelerators across the world that will replicate the TechStars incubator model.
Boulder-based Tec... |
| Jan 31, 2011 | The White House Partners With Steve Case, Facebook, Intel, And Others To Jumpstart Entrepreneurship | As part of a White House effort to promote job creation, entrepreneurship and private-sector investment in startups, President Obama is announcing a new initiative today, called Startup America Partnership, to foster growth in the startup w... |
| Jan 27, 2011 | Venture Café Finds Permanent Space Amid Comings and Goings in Kendall Square | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
‘Tis the season for moving in and moving out for the startup community in Kendall Square. This morning, we heard some news from Tim Rowe, the CEO and co-founder of the Cambrid... |
| Jan 24, 2011 | Co-working space General Assembly gives NYC startups a home | New York City’s tech ecosystem has been flourishing recently, with both rookies and alumni from local successes like Foursquare, Etsy and Gilt Groupe starting companies. Co-working space General Assembly (GA) is looking to become the centra... |
| Jan 20, 2011 | Startupbootcamp launches in Madrid. Next up: London and Berlin. | Is it just me, or is everyone and their mother talking about startup accelerators these days? I seriously feel like we’re in some kind of Paul Graham era. Y Combinator-made startups like Dropbox, Xobni, Loopt, AirBnB, WePay, etc. have gotte... |
| Dec 31, 2010 | 2011 may mark the beginning of a golden era for entrepreneurs | (Editor’s note: Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank is the author of Four Steps to the Epiphany. A longer version of this story originally appeared on his blog.)
As we wrap up 2010, things might seem bleak. The common wisdom says that the chick... |
| Dec 19, 2010 | Holiday Reading: 5 of This Year’s Best Books for Startups | Ideally, you’ll find some time over the next few weeks to curl up with a good story. Or hey, at least that’s what I look forward to on vacation. If you are looking for some books on entrepreneurship to read, or even to gift, here are some r... |
| Nov 30, 2010 | Project 11’s Katie Rae Named Director of TechStars Boston | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
TechStars, the seed-stage investment fund and startup mentoring program, announced today it has selected tech executive and startup personality Katie Rae as the new managing d... |
| Nov 23, 2010 | Xconomy Adds Marginize Widget for Social Conversations; Check In for a Chance to Win a Free Event Ticket | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
There’s a new way to share and discuss your favorite Xconomy articles with your friends on a variety of social-media channels: Marginize.
If you’re reading this article on the... |
| Nov 20, 2010 | Shawn Broderick Departing TechStars Boston for Social Games Startup | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
[Updated, see below] Shawn Broderick, managing director of the TechStars Boston startup incubator program since it came to the Hub in early 2009, is stepping down. Broderick a... |
| Nov 17, 2010 | Seedcamp, Europe’s Y Combinator, closes $4 million fund | Seedcamp, a seed fund that is best described as Europe’s version of Y Combinator, just announced the closing of its second fund of $4 million. This fund is 50 percent larger than the first fund, raised in 2007.
New investors include Notion ... |
| Nov 15, 2010 | TechStars Demo Day Yields 10 New Seattle Startups—and a Lot of Work Ahead | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s pretty impressive what a few startup teams can accomplish in 90 days with a lot of hard work, mentorship, and late-night Maker’s Mark bourbon-fueled sessions. But their r... |
| Nov 15, 2010 | “Changing the Way We Start Companies”: Q&A with AngelPad’s Thomas Korte | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Last week I reported on the inaugural demo day presentations from startups at San Francisco-based AngelPad, the newest of the Y Combinator-style tech incubators springing up a... |
| Nov 12, 2010 | Creator of Gmail Leaves Facebook, Joins Y Combinator as Partner | Y Combinator, the seed investing and startup incubating powerhouse, announced this morning that it has added its first two new investment partners since launching five years ago.
They are: Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, the prototype for ... |
| Nov 11, 2010 | TechStars Launches Ten New Startups In Seattle | Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post written by David Cohen, founder and CEO of the TechStars startup incubator.
TechStars, the well-known seed accelerator program with operations in Boulder, Boston, Seattle and New York City has un... |
| Nov 11, 2010 | Shhhh, don't tell: France wants its own Y Combinator | Back in August, rumors started surfacing about a potential French Y Combinator. Since then, the tweets of several well-known French entrepreneurs and investors have made it clear that they have ambitions of being the French Paul Graham, inc... |
| Nov 3, 2010 | Do More Faster | I just finished reading Do More Faster. My friends Brad Feld and David Cohen, who founded Techstars, took all the lessons and mentorship that is provided to the teams in the Techstars program and put it together into a book.
Do More Faster ... |
| Oct 25, 2010 | 3 ways to raise seed capital if you don’t know any investors | A reader asks: My co-founder and I recently launched a new web venture, and we’re running out of money. We are trying to raise about $250K, but we don’t have any friends or family who can afford to invest – and we don’t know any angel inves... |
| Oct 18, 2010 | The Foundry Group's Brad Feld Launches Personal Groupon Clone | In what is definitely a contender for strangest news of the day, The Foundry Group Managing Director Brad Feld has just debuted his own Groupon clone called “Brad Feld’s Amazing Deals.” He built the clone through Seattle TechStars company D... |
| Oct 13, 2010 | Excerpt From “Do More Faster” by David Cohen and Brad Feld | Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup, the new book by David Cohen, founder and CEO of TechStars, and Brad Feld, managing director of Foundry Group, came out this week, and the authors are in the middle of a fast-pace... |
| Oct 6, 2010 | Orbotix Receives Funding from Foundry Group | Orbotix, a Boulder, Colorado-based company that works with consumer electronics companies and developers to bring phone controlled open devices to market, has received an undisclosed amount of funding from Foundry Group.
The start up, which... |
| Sep 24, 2010 | Two Founders Check Out Of Brightkite To Check In To A Stealthy New Startup, Forkly | Brightkite has always been an interesting startup. They were in the location game early (a 2007 TechStars launch) — perhaps a bit too early, as the true hype in the space has only really began in the past year or so. Nevertheless, they were... |
| Sep 6, 2010 | Top 10 angel- and seed-investing programs | TechStars, Y Combinator, Seedcamp, Founder Institute, i2E, Plug and Play and more
Angel investors can be that bright light in your fiscal sky, but which ones shine the brightest? Today we will look at the best and brightest of the angel inv... |
| Sep 1, 2010 | TechStars Expands to NYC | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
TechStars, the seed-stage investment and mentoring program for technology startups, said today it is opening a new session in New York City, starting in January 2011. Applicat... |
| Sep 1, 2010 | TechStars Comes to the Big Apple | In what’s bound to be a boost for an already thriving tech startup scene, the Boulder-based incubator TechStars announced today that it is opening a program in a new location, New York City. This will be the fourth city into which the progr... |