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Inside a Techstars Accelerator: Fundraising and the Investor Process
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Inside a Techstars Accelerator: Fundraising and the Investor Process

Managing Directors Andres Barreto and Georgie Smithwick share four counterintuitive strategies for securing capital.

October 22, 2025
Sparc CEO Laurel Djoukeng
Founder Advice

Sparc CEO Laurel Djoukeng Is Revolutionizing College Recruiting with AI

Laurel Djoukeng, Founder & CEO of Sparc (Techstars 2024), shares how staying lean and building momentum beats chasing perfection in the early days of building a company.

October 16, 2025
How To Increase Your Chances of Getting Into a Techstars Accelerator
Founder Advice

Inside a Techstars Accelerator: How To Increase Your Chances of Getting Into an Accelerator

Christine Hong, Eoghan O'Flaherty, and Nick Culbertson give advice on how to dramatically increase your chances of getting accepted into Techstars.

October 15, 2025
Cities Have Personalities
Insights & Trends

Cities Have Personalities, Just Like Your Weird Uncle Larry

The norms of a startup community are shaped by the personality of its city. And if you ignore that personality, you’re likely to misfire.

October 6, 2025
10 Actions Leaders Can Embrace To Become an Effective Influencer In Your Community
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10 Actions Leaders Can Embrace To Become an Effective Influencer In Your Community

The best community influencers build trust, lift others up, and show up consistently. Influence here isn’t about control — it’s about connection.

September 29, 2025
Build for Possibility, Not Stability in Your Startup Community
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Build for Possibility, Not Stability in Your Startup Community

The best startup communities don’t try to optimize the past. They make room for what’s next.

September 22, 2025
Techstars Startup Weekend Boston - Lead Organizer
Impact

Techstars Startup Weekend Boston 2025 Impact Report

Techstars Startup Weekend Boston 2025 proved that Startup Weekend is not just an event, but a movement of transformation.

September 16, 2025
Stop Raising. Start Building.
Founder Advice

Stop Raising. Start Building.

Raising venture is not the first step in building your company. It’s what you do after you’ve proven you can build something people want, and after you’ve shown traction that convinces investors you can scale it.

September 9, 2025
Founders First: Because Buildings Don’t Build Companies
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Founders First: Because Buildings Don’t Build Companies

Helping your startup community means helping founders — every founder.

September 8, 2025
Your Startup and Your Startup Community and Your Joy In Life
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Your Startup and Your Startup Community and Your Joy In Life

Startup communities aren’t something you build and then live in. A startup community is not an end goal. They are not something you finish then move on. They are something you invest in every day.

September 1, 2025
The Health Data Dilemma: What Founders Must Know About Access, Ethics, and Advantage
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The Health Data Dilemma: What Founders Must Know About Access, Ethics, and Advantage

The startups that win won’t just be the ones with the smartest models. They’ll be the ones with the smartest data strategy — from access and ethics to value creation and trust.

August 28, 2025
How Healthcare Systems Actually Buy Innovation: Lessons from the Gatekeepers
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How Healthcare Systems Actually Buy Innovation: Lessons from the Gatekeepers

Founders need more than just a great product. They need to understand how complex systems think, what scares them, and how to make it easy to say yes.

August 21, 2025