TechStars, a startup incubator that offers mentorship alongside a pretty modest level of seed funding,
Microsoft Office 2007 Standard, has started accepting programs for that 3rd year of its plan. Interested organisations can apply right here between January 19 and March 21, 2009,
Office 2007 Key, with winners selected by March 28. The TechStars team will choose close to 10 companies to participate inside plan, which requires put in Boulder, Colorado and culminates in a pair of Demo Days in Boulder and Mountain View, California for the duration of which each corporation will current their pitches to a space brimming with likely investors.
TechStars had a really effective 2008,
Office Professional Plus 2010, for the period of which several its companies were acquired: in August, lifestreaming startup SocialThing was acquired by AOL, followed per month later by Automattic’s acquisition of enhanced commenting system Intense Debate. A few of its vendors have also been flourishing at raising money since the economic downturn, including artisan-food market Foodzie, which closed a round in December,
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Other startup incubators include DreamIt Ventures and the well-known Y Combinator plan,
Microsoft Office Professional 2010, which was founded in 2005 and now has funded well over 100 agencies.