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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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Chile, Entrepreneurs, Endeavor, and Global Lessons

Reid Hoffman

And by doing so, you build a vertically integrated marketplace with a much deeper value stack. The small domestic market in Estonia and the fragmented nature of the market in Europe changed from a disadvantage to an advantage for launching Skype. The same holds true for payments.

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