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Founder Institute News
'The Three P's of Time Management' by @Elance
Elance, the world’s leading platform for online employment, helps startups hire and manage in the cloud. Elance generously helps many Founder Institute companies by offering a $100 credit in Elance services, and $1,000 in credit to the highest rated company of each Fall 2011 graduating class.
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Microsoft BizSpark Supports Founder Institute and 9th Founder Showcase
The Founder Institute is arguably one of the largest organizations for entrepreneurs to receive advice and mentoring, helping them create meaningful and enduring technology companies. A four month pre-seed incubator program, you receive expert training, feedback, and support from experienced startup CEOs. The ‘Bonus Pool’ also shares equity upside with all participants, creating local, teamwork-based ecosystems where great startups can flourish.
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About Founder Institute and BizSpark
The Founder Institute is a global network of startups and mentors that helps entrepreneurs launch meaningful and enduring technology companies. Through our four month pre-seed incubator program, you can launch your dream company with expert training, feedback, and support from experienced startup CEOs, while not being required to quit your day job. Our unique Bonus Pool also shares equity upside with all participants, creating local, teamwork-based ecosystems where great startups can flourish. In less than 3 years the Institute has launched over 415 companies in over 20 cities across 4 continents, and growing. Read More
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Recent Silicon Valley Program
Inside FI: 'Should You Sell Your #Startup, or Not?' by @DanShapiro
Inside FI gives you exclusive access inside the training sessions of the Founder Institute.
While it is important to think about how to create a meaningful company, according to Dan Shapiro, Founder and CEO of Sparkbuy (acquired by Google) and Ontela (now Photobucket), "there should always be a part of you thinking about what the future holds for your company, and how to create maximum value."
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New startups rely on the help and support from a huge range of organizations and a lot of those are working together to bring more resources and services to help startups. We all know how critical access to mentoring and coaching is for early stage companies and founders.
Building on some great work to date, we're embarking on a really exciting partnership with the Founder Institute supporting their work more broadly in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Chile and Singapore. We'll be expanding the partnership into more cities across Asia, Latin America and Europe during 2012. Here's the Founder Institute founding father, Adeo Ressi, on stage with Dan'l Lewin at #DEMOcon in September.