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1.0 Founder Insight 12/7/11
TheFunded.com Open Letter
Posted by Gopal Kamath on 2011-12-07
Editor's Note: The Founder Institute is now the world’s largest startup incubator, in terms of companies launched. Yes, you read that right. With the recent graduations of our Summer semesters, we have now helped launch 415 technology startups worldwide, and we have done so in less than 2.5 years. TechCrunch covered the story yesterday, here.
Our model is working, and our vision of 'Globalizing Silicon Valley' is starting to take hold. Rather than bringing talent to Silicon Valley, we are going to different markets, gathering their best startup leaders, service providers, and most promising founders, and building local, teamwork-based startup ecosystems from the ground up.
Like any startup, we are celebrating the good news by... well, not celebrating at all. We are just putting our head down and continuing to push forward. We'll be releasing more comprehensive data in the coming days, so stay tuned.
- Jonathan Greechan (@jonnystartup)
Inside the Founder Institute
'Don’t Run Out of Gas Before You Start the Race’ by @wbunker- In this talk from the Silicon Valley Founder Institute, Will Bunker, Co-Founder of the online dating service that became Match.com, discusses how he planned and managed his revenue, profit, and cost structure to grow his online dating service with only a small initial angel investment of $90,000, to the largest personals site.
Great Discussions on TheFunded:
Legal Discovery and Cloud Storage
Recommended Resources:
How to Be a Better Venture Capitalist: Run a Startup [VentureBeat]
Gratitude as a Business Strategy [Fast Company]
Upcoming Events:
Women 2.0 PITCH Competition 2012
Date/Location: Deadline to Apply is December 7, 2011
Description: Women 2.0 PITCH is open to early-stage ventures from around the world from web to mobile, from double bottom line businesses to connected devices. To be eligible, your startup must be in beta stage, have received less than a million in funding, have a technical co-founder, and have at least one female on the founding team.
St. Louis Startup Pitch Bootcamp
Date/Location: December 15, 2011: 6:00 PM-9:00 PM: St. Louis, MO
Description: In just three hours the Founder Institute will help you refine your ideas, improve your pitch, and find a cofounder. Best of all it's free, and many local CEOs will be in attendance - including Brian Matthews and Gabe Lozano.
New York Startup Ideation Bootcamp
Date/Location: January 11, 2012: 6:00 PM-9:00 PM
Description: In just three hours the Founder Institute will help you improve your startup ideas, come up with new ideas, and find a cofounder. Best of all it's free, and many local CEOs will be in attendance - including Gabe Zichermann and Ven Medabalmi .
9th Founder Showcase
Date/Location: January 19, 2011: 3:30 PM-9:00 PM: Mountain View, CA
Description: The Founder Showcase brings together leading investors, founders, and press for one action-packed night to network and help launch a startup company to greatness. The 9th Founder Showcase will take place in Mountain View, and only hold 275 people. Guests will be treated to a keynote speech from a top technology investor or CEO, and drinks and appetizers in a networking hall full of emerging companies competing in a Demo Table Competition. This event has sold out the last six times, so register today. Founder Insight readers get 25% off using the code 'insightful'.
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