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Excelerate Labs Brings A Startup Incubator To Chicago

It seems that Y Combinator and TechStars-like incubators are popping up everywhere. BoomStartup just launched an incubator in Utah and TechStars is expanding to other cities in the U.S., as is The Founder Institute. Chicago has a new incubator that recently launched, called Excelerate Labs.
Excelerate is the brainchild of OKCupid entrepreneur Sam Yagan, [...]

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Sat, March 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Y Combinator To Startups: “We think the iPad is meant to be a Windows killer”

Last August, we wrote about Y Combinator’s latest idea: RFS, or, Requests for Startups. Basically, this allows the incubator to lead entrepreneurs in a certain direction based on trends they think will be hot. Y Combinator then selects the best ideas based around these guidelines to fund. The latest RFS (number 6), throws down a [...]

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Tue, March 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

PayPal, Venrock Incubate BillFloat To Develop Innovative Payment Services

We got a tip recently about a startup called BillFloat, which sports a rather limited website with nothing but a logo and a call for fresh engineers. The intriguing thing about BillFloat, however, was this sentence on the placeholder website: “We are a PayPal and Venrock backed startup re-defining a $100 billion market and are [...]

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Sat, February 13 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments