The Battle of Startups: Happy Farm vs Skolkovo!!!!!

On Wednesday, September 11th, 2013 at 7:00pm there was an intriguing battle between tech startups represented by Happy Farm Business Incubator and Skolkovo Foundation IT Cluster who are on a roadshow in the Silicon Valley during September. The event was meant to include the trendiest and the most promising startups from Ukraine, Russia and from all over the Eastern Europe.

Incubator Starter Studio Opens Doors in Orlando!!!!!!!!

Incubator Starter Studio Opens Doors in Orlando (via Dice News in Tech)

Starter Studio officially opened its doors last month in Orlando. The technology incubator is the brainchild of entrepreneur-developer Gregg Pollack, Founder of Envy Labs. Pollack’s company does a lot of Web development for clients, and is well-known…

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State of the Alley-2013!!!

AlleyWatch delivers its first State of the Alley infographic highlighting some key indictors in the New York startup and technology ecosystem.

Socialatom Ventures is Colombia's hot new Incubator!!!!!!!

Colombia is getting a new incubator called Socialatom Ventures, startup mentor and entrepreneur Alan Colmenares announced on his blog, Tropical Gringo. It will be one of the three ‘consolidation’ incubators to be supported by the Colombian government, he adds.

This support is actually part of Colombia’s Vive Digital initiative, itself promoted by Apps.co. As you may know, it was designed by Colombia’s Ministry of ICT (MinTIC) to promote digital entrepreneurship in the country.

In addition to seed capital, Socialatom Ventures will also offer its teams a shared office space in Bogotá. It is worth noting that the selection process is about to start, and will be open to applications from all over Colombia, or even from other countries.

According to its website, the incubator will base its choice on the following criteria:

1. A team able to execute must be comprised of at least two co-founders
2. At least one of the co-founders should be technical (enough to hack something together and get started)
3. Your team should have a product or prototyped finished
4. Your product or prototype should have (at least some) users.
5. The problem you are trying to solve should be your own

A Kitchen Incubator Grows in Queens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Kitchen Incubator Grows in Queens (via Immpreneur)

A Kitchen Incubator Grows in Queens Learn how Yiorgos Samios perfected his product by toiling in a 5,000 square-foot-kitchen called the Entrepreneur Space, an incubator for food startups. IMMPRENEUR STATISTICS Name: Yiorgos Samios Country of Origin:…

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AngelList makes fundraising easier!!!!

AngelList is a community of startups and investors who make fund-raising efficient. AngelList is a platform for startups to meet investors, talent and incubators. Started by the dudes who do Venture Hacks. Meet the startups and investors. AngelList was founded by Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi.

• Meet investors http://angel.co/people/investors and raise money online http://angel.co/invest
• Meet candidates http://angel.co/jobs
• Apply to incubators http://angel.co/incubators/apply

They also have an API http://angel.co/api.

Here are some videos about AngelList:

Samsung Opens It's Accelerator!!!!!!!

On July 11th, 2013 Samsung opened the doors of its latest digs: a startup and entrepreneurship incubator/accelerator located on University Avenue in Palo Alto, the incubator is housed in the historic Varsity movie theatre.  That's right Samsung has an Accelerator!!!


As part of Samsung’s Open Innovation Center division. There will also be a New York incubator come September. Next, the company may open incubators in other tech hubs such as Austin, Boston, Russia, and Israel.


The Samsung Ventures America Fund is a $1 billion fund separate from Samsung’s $1 billion in assets under management through Samsung Ventures investments. The company also established a separate $100 million Samsung Catalyst Fund to invest in global innovation.

Samsung announced, it would be opening a new Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center in Menlo Park, a relative stone’s throw away from the accelerator in Palo Alto.

Here are some pictures from the night:

Here are a  few Vine videos from the night: