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Ukraine, Estonia, Chile, Finland: The saga of four accelerators

The Next Web

Some of the programs take equity in exchange for a seed round, some are free for participants, others work anywhere in between those two models. At the moment of writing, Seed-DB, a global database of seed stage accelerators, listed 235 programs (both active and defunct) that 5,688 startups had gone through.

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E is for Engage

David Cohen

Equanimity. Entertainment. E-Techstars. Equilibrium. Eucalyptus. Enlightenment. Extrapolation. Evaluate new economic models. Equine Wrestling Federation. Eat more tacos.

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Why International Startups Love NY, and NY VCs Love International Startups

David Teten

In addition, HOF has backed 6 companies with roots in Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, India, and Russia. (In To date, out of 17 companies, HOF Capital has backed 7 founding teams with roots in underrepresented regions: Egypt, Latin America, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

The rest can be outsourced to wherever (Estonia – Skype; someone mentioned digg above; you can even send this junk to India and get it with questionable quality). This resulted in a recapitilization of the equity away from 33% each (in my favor) and then the ultimate dismissal of one of the co-founders prior to the A-round.