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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

ReadWriteStart

Ruta N.com, a public-joint venture established in 2009, also helped the city earn significant attention by providing landing services, office space, and incubation for startups. Innovative incubators are being set up by companies and supported by government. The government creates programs to help entrepreneurs.

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7 Tips To Secure Funding They Don’t Teach In Business School

YoungUpstarts

Enter Competitions and Incubators. Things like winning startup competitions, getting selected to a startup incubator, partnering with a large company, are all good ways to show traction and some proof that you’re creating value. Good examples include: Ycombinator, Techstars, Startup health and Rock health.

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Strategy Roundtable for Entrepreneurs: Web 3.0 & Social Dancing, Romania Emerging

ReadWriteStart

As you may recall from previous roundtable posts, that 1M/1M works closely with many incubators around the world. We simply offer our services as an extension of the incubators' existing programming. We hope to see many more in 2012. Then we moved to another exciting segment for which I need to give you some context.

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May Business Angels Spread Their Wings Over Kenya?

Transformify

The capital of Kenya, Nairobi, is a vibrant city offering various resources for young start – ups, including accelerator 88MPH and incubator i-Hub. Mbwana Alliy founded the Nairobi based Savannah Fund in 2012. The founding of M-Pesa in 2007 inspired many young people to undertake entrepreneurial risks. Sam Gichuru CEO at nailab.

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How to find funding for your hardware startup while we’re waiting for the hardware revolution

Version One Ventures

For example, Pebble (a watch that wirelessly connects to a smartphone and displays its messages) raised $10M on Kickstarter in 2012. With Lemnos Labs, we already have a hardware-focused incubator, so it will only be a matter of time before we see VC funds emerge that focus exclusively on hardware. Related articles.

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Stanford 2012 Lean LaunchPad Presentations – part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

We’ll teach over 175 NSF Innovation Corps teams in the Lean LaunchPad course in 2012. The 2012 Stanford Lean LaunchPad Presentations. Yet this isn’t an incubator. The process will repeat itself, quarter by quarter – new students, new University entrepreneurship teaching teams.

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The Kinect Accelerator

Feld Thoughts

Recently, Microsoft announced the Microsoft Kinect Accelerator , a program created to incubate startups building the next generation of innovative experiences for the Kinect. Microsoft’s Kinect Accelerator is powered by TechStars and applications for the Kinect Accelerator are now being accepted through January 25, 2012.