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Accelerator Spotlight: Waivr

View from Seed

Brenna Curran (BC): Waivr is modernizing the 60+ year old recurring payments infrastructure by enabling merchants to transact through the Real-Time Payments network, delivering lower transaction costs, eliminating bounce rates, and providing instant fund disbursement to merchants. RH: How is your company planning to solve this problem? .

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

VCAP© is a collaborative venture that provides women and diverse entrepreneurs nationwide with access to venture capital through accredited investors within the HBSAANY network. VCAP©, the first program of its kind, bridges the gap between venture capitalists and angel investor networks and women and diverse entrepreneurs.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

VCAP© is a collaborative venture that provides women and diverse entrepreneurs nationwide with access to venture capital through accredited investors within the HBSAANY network. VCAP©, the first program of its kind, bridges the gap between venture capitalists and angel investor networks and women and diverse entrepreneurs.

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Businesses Must Manage the Twitter Conversation

Both Sides of the Table

On Facebook (and nearly all social networks that preceded it) the relationship was always reciprocal – if I accept your invitation to follow me then I have to follow you. Apple must be overwhelmed by people who hate the iPhone service because the AT&T Network is so bad. Facebook.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Fralic was also one of the early employees and VP of Business Development at Half.com starting in 1999, and after the eBay acquisition, spent six years with eBay in a variety of entertainment, business development, and media roles. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. You can reach Chris at www.nothingtosay.com and @ChrisFRC.

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Upfront and the Power of Startup Community in LA

Feld Thoughts

I’m finally home after three solid weeks on the road which included Austin, Dallas, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. I’m an investor in many early stage VC funds and, while I’m not a rigorous annual meeting attender, will go if one of the GPs asks me to. The venues were awesome.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

Well, for starters, I was born in Philadelphia, so I’m a lifelong Eagles fan. And my specialty was computer networks. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. Below is an edited transcript if you prefer to video – easier to scan I guess. [00:00:06]

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