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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.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

In this class, we partnered with sponsors in the State Department including: Office of Space and Advanced Technology. Every team spoke to close to 100 potential “beneficiaries,” partners and stakeholders including NGOs, tech company executives, supply chain managers, foreign service officers in embassies around the world, and even refugees.

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Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

In this class, we partnered with sponsors in the State Department including: Office of Space and Advanced Technology. Every team spoke to close to 100 potential “beneficiaries,” partners and stakeholders including NGOs, tech company executives, supply chain managers, foreign service officers in embassies around the world, and even refugees.

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Bitesize Monday: Israeli Startup Headlines

VC Cafe

that Better Place is offering — a quite attractive sedan in our opinion — goes for a little more than $38,000 (at current exchange rates) in Denmark. Moshe Bar, a general partner in the fund is a former entrepreneur and chairman of Zooppa – full article. Read the story on Wired. – Israeli MFA. Miscellaneous.