Category: 500startups
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Startup Postmortem: Binpress
For over 5 years, my life revolved around growing my previous company, Binpress. In the months since we found a buyer for it, I’ve had some time to think about why it failed. Now that we’ve sold the company, I wanted to reflect on the journey my co-founder and I had with the company, from…
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After reviewing 300 startup applications, this is what I learned
In a previous post, I wrote about why and how you should join the 500startups accelerator (or any premier accelerator program, for that matter). I briefly mentioned that I’ve been given access to provide opinion on applications for the next batch (Fall 2013), as a 500startups program alumni. To date, I’ve reviewed close to 300…
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Post mortem: Why and how you should apply to 500startups
A couple of months ago, I wrote about our first week in the 500startups accelerator program. With the program now officially (?) over, I wanted to share my experience with it and help interested founders understand whether it would be a good fit for them. Why should you apply to 500startups? When we first started…
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The ABC of raising your seed round
After failing miserably to raise 18 months ago, digging deep and bootstrapping our way to profitability, we made another attempt earlier this year and got a huge break by getting into 500startups. We are now in the middle of raising our seed round and are doing a much better job at it than previously. I…