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Two Clean Energy Incubators Launched in Texas

Austin Startup

The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) and the State Energy Conservation Office (SECO) are announcing a program to launch two new clean energy incubators at Texas universities. This program will make two awards of $200,000 each to build clean energy incubation capability. Those events drew more than 5,000 people.

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Springboard Launches Accelerator Program for Early Stage European Startups

ReadWriteStart

Springboard has launched a new mentorship-led accelerator program for European startups. Springboard debuted in 2009 as an " accidental incubator " emerging from the company Red Gate Software. It's a 13-week program, based at Cambridge University's ideaSpace. Applications for the Spring 2001 program are now open.

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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital. This helped the startups qualify for funding from banks and venture capital firms.

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Five Questions Every Start-Up Should Ask About Accelerators

Austin Startup

Mitch Marchand, founder of Vybe Software, working at Sputnik ATX accelerator in Austin, TX First off, and full disclosure, I operate an accelerator program (Sputnik ATX) and have strong opinions on this subject as a participant in the “helping startups” market. It is OK to recognize that a program isn’t going to accelerate you as advertised.

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The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital – (Part 3 of 5)

Steve Blank

The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. This post is about the rise of Chinese venture capital and how it helped build the countries entrepreneurial ecosystem. The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital. This helped the startups qualify for funding from banks and venture capital firms.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). And every year, it looks as if one or two entrepreneurs from the program decide to stay. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. My good friend Adam Lilling and I started Launchpad more than 5 years ago .