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How To Get Ready To Participate In An Acceleration Program

YoungUpstarts

by Marc Pitart, founder and CEO of onlineresume.us. Acceleration and incubation programs are on the rise and have helped start and scale many successful businesses over the past 10 years. Our business model back then was very complex, and it included a B2C as well as a B2B business model, that wasn’t being implemented yet.

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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

ReadWriteStart

Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles. Incubators, Accelerators, Competitions. Big names like Microsoft BizSpark and Sun Startup Essentials have a presence here, of course, and The Funded recently launched their Founder Institute in Paris as well.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Bob Fabbio was the founder and CEO of eRelevance and he was the man in the arena here?—?and For all of us Austin fans, I’m talking about Cotter Cunningham, the founder and CEO of RetailMeNot. Who says Austin can’t do B2C now ? But I digress?—?this and I bet he’ll be back. This wasn’t his first rodeo, as we say in Texas.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. It was also beneficial because I got some good experience with both B2B and B2C business models. It sounds interesting.

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JFDI.Asia Announces 2013 Startup Lineup

YoungUpstarts

Singapore-based technology startup incubator Joyful Frog Digital Incubator – better known locally as JFDI.Asia – today unveiled a lineup of eight technology startups set to participate in its 100-day accelerator program this year. “Early-stage business is becoming less of an art and more of a science,” he adds.

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JFDI.Asia Accelerator: Bootcamp Practicalities

YoungUpstarts

by Meng Weng Wong, co-founder and social engineer at JFDI Asia. Some founders stay at hostels. Each founder who owns shares in the startup and has attended JFDI will be invited. Each founder who is part of the team and has attended JFDI will be expected to be there to man your startup’s booth. That’s the competition.

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Can you build “Silicon Valley” companies outside of the Valley?

Version One Ventures

B2C start-ups typically have more flexibility for where they can be located, while enterprise oriented startups need to be where the customers are…and that means Silicon Valley. In many cases, success comes down to the founder’s ambition and mindset. The other consideration is the type of business.