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    2. 3 Tips for Finding a Co-Founder for Your Start-Up

      Explore Daily Muse (May 21 2012) Recruiting

      3 Tips for Finding a Co-Founder for Your Start-Up ...other tick. Jonathan Wegener and Benny Wong from Timehop, who I got to know well during our time at TechStars, are a great example of this. The two were randomly thrown together as roommates during their first... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Manhattan   TechStars   Columbia University

    3. 9 Tips for a New Entrepreneur

      Explore Startup America Partnership (Apr 19 2012) Marketing , Productivity

      9 Tips for a New Entrepreneur ...Startup Incubators – There are hundreds of startup incubators all over the country. YCombinator and Techstars are some great incubator programs. You can search on Internet for incubators in your local area. Th... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Fred Wilson   Paul Graham   TechStars

    4. How to Choose a Startup Incubator

      Explore ReadWriteWeb (Apr 16 2012)

      How to Choose a Startup Incubator ... qualify. You don't just waltz into Harvard Business School - and you don't just pull up a chair at TechStars or Y Combinator. (In fact, getting a seat at a superior incubator is three times harder than gettin... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Harvard Business School   Andreessen Horowitz   Stanford

    5. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings (But Were Afraid To Ask)

      Explore TechCrunch (Apr 8 2012)

      ...p Issue Shares of Common Stock to Investors? It can. In fact, many incubators like Y Combinator and TechStars are issued shares of common stock for their initial investment (usually about $20,000). Friends and... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Fred Wilson   Jason Calacanis   Mark Suster

    6. Pitch to Get a Meeting, Not a Check

      Explore inc.com (Apr 5 2012)

      TechStars' founder David Cohen on how to get what you really need from an investor: an invitation to come bac... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Mark Suster   David Cohen   Brad Feld

    7. 3 Tips for Landing a Job at an Awesome Startup

      Explore feefighters.com (Mar 19 2012) Marketing

      3 Tips for Landing a Job at an Awesome Startup ...rtup. 2. Leverage the startup accelerators. In the past 5 years startup accelerators (Y Combinator, TechStars, Excelerate Labs, etc) have popped up in most of the major cities in the United States. Even cities... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   TechStars   Y-Combinator   Google Adwords

    8. 4 Tips on How to Get into a Startup Accelerator

      Explore Startups and Burritos (Jan 26 2012) Marketing

      Thinking about applying to to a startup accelerator like TechStars, DreamIt or Excelerate Labs. My suggestion: stop thinking about it, and go do it. Like, right now. ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   TechStars

    9. Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss

      Explore gigaom.com (Jan 7 2012)

      Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss ...ght that we lead only with the influence we earn. Donald DeSantis is a developer and UX designer at TechStars company Giant Thinkwell. In his free time, he travels to faraway cities and helps make Startup Week... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jason Fried   Los Angeles   TechStars

    10. The Big List: The Best and Worst Startup Stuff In 2011

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Jan 2 2012)

      The Big List: The Best and Worst Startup Stuff In 2011 ...assively talented hackers who want into a great startup with the killer companies that make it into TechStars. The result: a serious increase in global startup mojo. Runner-Up: 500 Startups, for providing ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Joel Spolsky   Jason Calacanis   Mark Suster

    11. Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink

      Explore paulstamatiou.com (Dec 28 2011)

      Startup Fundraising is a Time Sink ...er all the advice and not being taken over by happy ears is an important skill. I recently read the TechStars book, "Do More Faster", on my Kindle and thoroughly enjoyed it. There's a chapter that focuses on c... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Motorola   Andreessen Horowitz   Startup School

    12. Setbacks And Surprises Part Of The Deal For A Startup

      Explore npr.org (Dec 7 2011) Marketing

      Setbacks And Surprises Part Of The Deal For A Startup ...n * Add to Playlist * Download * Transcript A crowd mills at Demo Day for the technology incubator TechStars in Seattle, where a group of startups presented their pitches to investors. Marketing firm Bluebox... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Seattle   TechStars

    13. How to Build a Stellar Team at a High-Potential Startup

      Explore Business & Small Business (Dec 6 2011) Recruiting

      How to Build a Stellar Team at a High-Potential Startup .... He recommends posting in relevant places, like a niche startup board or through an incubator like TechStars or Y Combinator, which will yield more responses from candidates who understand what to expect when... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of California   University of Texas   Apple

    14. Startup boards: The good, the bad and the ugly

      Explore tekhne (Dec 1 2011)

      Startup boards: The good, the bad and the ugly ...-notch startup board instead of a gang of rebellious gunslingers. David Cohen – Co-founder and CEO, TechStars Good – Make sure the board members are vested (ideally they are investors themselves), especially a... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   David Cohen   TechStars   Jason Mendelson

    15. DON'T start a company...yet

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Nov 21 2011)

      ...putting "startup" in the school water supply, and incubator programs for new graduates abound (e.g. TechStars, Y Combinator, etc.) For those new graduates itching to start a company, I'm giving some very con... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Harvard   TechStars   Y-Combinator

    16. Joining The Board of Startup Weekend

      Explore Feld Thoughts (Sep 28 2011)

      Joining The Board of Startup Weekend ...up Weekend in Boulder in July 2007. It was created by Andrew Hyde (he was the Community Manager for TechStars at the time). While I didn’t stay the entire weekend, my partner Seth Levine and I spent a bunch of... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   David Cohen   Stanford University   Steve Blank

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