article thumbnail

500 Startups unveils its Fall 2012 accelerator lineup: More international and more sh*t founders say

The Next Web

For the first time, it partnered with AngelList to help create an open application process. Not bad considering that founding partner Dave McClure has been adamant about supporting non-US startups and recently acquired the Mexican.VC accelerator and brought on two venture partners to help oversee its India investments.

Founder 136
article thumbnail

Nokia’s coopetition with carriers

BeyondVC

In other words, from a business model perspective, Nokia is going directly after the end consumer and encroaching on precious data and subscription revenue of their carrier partners. We also need to figure out if they are doing it with partners or doing it themselves either from an internally built application or through an acquisition.

article thumbnail

The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. Microsoft has cut orders to its supply chain by half, according to Taiwan’s Digitimes. Source: AllThingsD ]. -