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Wifredo Fernandez and the $300 theory of a startup city
The LAB Miami began with shipping pallets, homemade desks and a question about where good ideas go. Wifredo “Wifi” Fernandez has carried that question from Wynwood into classrooms, venture investing and technology policy.
Yonatan Stern and the $25,000 lesson
Before Opster had finished software, Yonatan Stern wanted it to charge $25,000 a year. The ZoomInfo founder now teaches entrepreneurs to put paying customers at the beginning of the story.
Mixergy: Ask what went wrong.
Andrew Warner spent hundreds of thousands of dollars building the wrong thing. Mixergy became useful when he started asking other founders how they had done it.
Grit gets to the hard part.
Building a company sounds tidy after it works. Kleiner Perkins’ Grit asks the people who built it about the decisions that made the story messy.
Stanford. Without the velvet rope.
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders turns a Stanford seminar into a free, public library of entrepreneurial decisions. The useful parts are often the mistakes.
a16z Podcast opens the room.
A venture firm put its conversations on the internet. The interesting part is how it learned to make those conversations worth your time.
This Week in Startups kept the conversation going
The podcast network closed. The founder-focused show stayed on the air. Inside a media business built around the questions people ask before they build a company.
New Ventures BC asks the C$200 question: who will buy it?
A startup competition with homework, a volunteer network with rules, and a prize that comes after months of scrutiny. New Ventures BC helps founders turn a clever idea into a business someone might actually buy from.
49 educação teaches founders to spend less on being wrong
After a million-dollar startup failure, Leandro Piazza built a school around execution. Now 49 educação sells the machinery of entrepreneurship to founders and the institutions trying to help them.
Istanbul Built a Startup Center Where the Price of Entry Is Nothing
BTM gives accepted founders free training, workspace and investor access. Its sharper advantage is a bridge into Istanbul's real economy - the customers, committees and commercial pressure that make an idea prove itself.
The Ten-Minute Meeting That Can Put a Food Brand on the Shelf
Bread & Jam turned the lonely, error-prone business of launching a food brand into a crowded room of founders, buyers and candid advice. The ticket buys access - the shelf still has to be earned.
NDRC was due to close. Ireland gave it more time.
Ireland’s national startup accelerator pairs a €100,000 investment with the people who can help founders spend it well. Its reprieve, and a €21 million successor plan, reveal what the country wants from its next generation of technology companies.
Game Factory wants your game to become a business
A working prototype is only the beginning. The Istanbul incubator connects developers with coaches, publishers and platform partners to tackle the harder job: keeping a studio alive.
TrepCamp’s real pitch: meet the people who might build with you
The founders of Nowports met at TrepCamp before building a billion-dollar logistics company. Inside the academy selling aspiring entrepreneurs a place to practice, find collaborators and test what comes next.
Fishburners Built a Founder Community. Then It Needed a Rescue.
For 15 years, Fishburners helped Australian founders find their people. Its 2026 rescue asks a harder question: how do you pay for the place that makes those connections possible?
VC4A does the work before the cheque
A startup profile can open a door. VC4A has built a business around what happens next: the mentoring, selection and unglamorous preparation that help founders meet investors on firmer ground.
Next Challenge Foundation Is Giving Jeju Startups a Wider Map
From a startup base in Seogwipo to consumer interviews in Kuala Lumpur, the Korean accelerator is building routes into bigger markets. Its hardest test is what happens after the introductions.