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The Inner Workings of a Startup Accelerator
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 1:41pm | 1053Entrepreneurs love them. But what do they really get from joining a so-called “startup accelerator”? To find out, Benzinga spoke with Ian Jeffrey, the General Manager of FounderFuel, an organization that Jeffrey describes as a “mentor-driven accelerator program.” “Twice a year we run a 12-week...
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Which Startup Was Born on Twitter?
Monday, January 30, 2012 - 2:03pm | 501In just a few tweets, this company was born. Yoseph West was 17 when he started investing. At that time, he says that he realized that the “black box of the stock market wasn't so much of a black box.” “There was a better way than guessing and ‘trading' market fluctuations,” West, the co-founder...