Without TechStars, we would not have had the chance to develop these meaningful connections.
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TechStars helped us direct our focus on creating MVPs (minimum viable product) when testing new features.
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TechStars is a startup accelerator that holds 13 week programs for startups in multiple cities.
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Would love to hear some feedback from prior TechStars alumni and other incubator programs.
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For me, and for my team, our time in TechStars was the right decision.
Does going through an incubator such as Y Combinator or Techstars send a negative signal to VCs?
About 80% of TechStars companies go on to raise venture capital or a significant angel funding round.
TechStars founder David Cohen has hired directors at each of the other locations to run the programs.
The round also included Correlation Ventures, Idea Fund Partners, CIT, Piedmont RIA, Cloud Power Fund, and TechStars.
Microsoft first announced this program in November, which is a joint incubation program developed in partnership with TechStars.
TechStars is also very popular, with only 1% of 4, 000 applications each year to all locations being accepted.
Recent entrants include Techstars, DreamIt, ER Accelerator, General Assembly, Astia, We Works Lab, Alley NYC and many more.
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"It can sense depth, " said Dave Malcolm, a Microsoft veteran who now manages the Microsoft Accelerator Powered by TechStars.
They built an MVP of the product that was used by techstars to monitor the progress of their teams.
About a quarter of the roughly 50 companies that participate in TechStars every year use a freemium strategy, he added.
Within the last couple of years, Ambassador raised funding from TechStars NYC, Zelkova Ventures, Ludlow Ventures, 313 Ventures, and Start Garden.
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One of the turning points for Ambassador was when they joined TechStars in New York about a year and a half ago.
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The program, organized by TechStars, focuses on startups in areas such as training, coaching, gaming, data visualization and the quantified self.
In its last batch in summer 2011, TechStars Boulder had 12 companies.
For example, there is no doubt that incubators such as 500 Startups, TechStars and Y-Combinator are 1, 000% behind the companies they invest in.
The first came from Troy Henikoff, an amazingly successful Chicago entrepreneur (now director of TechStars Chicago) who was teaching an entrepreneurship class at Northwestern.
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TechStars is different because it keeps its incubator batches small and tries to give ample amount of attention to each of its startups, Cohen says.
Realty Mogul is in the midst of closing its first round of outside venture funding and is currently part of the TechStars accelerator program.
TechStars predicts these services will include the beginning of real competition in the PaaS layer and increasing innovation in development and deployment tool chain solutions.
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As a reminder, the TechStars-run program was designed to encourage companies to use Nike-collected data from devices like the Fuelband and the Sportswatch.
In a November 28th interview, Cohen told me that he is excited about how much he has been learning since Coursekit got into New York City accelerator, TechStars.
In case you weren't aware, the Accelerator startup incubator's run by TechStars, the same folks who also provide seed money and business guidance to aspiring Kinect devs.
You may have heard about one of the programs supporting entrepreneurs in a major city near you like TechStars, Y-Combinator, or MassChallenge (a personal favorite).
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By open-sourcing its model, TechStars has helped launch other accelerators.
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