We are so excited to introduce Ray Estep as a mentor for the 2013 program! To put it simply, Ray is in the business of growing businesses! During his career, Ray has been successful with CEOs, Boards and management teams to develop and position companies for
Yep. That’s right. The Top 10 Investor Pitch FAILS! in 5-minutes – as presented by me, on behalf of VentureSpur at the 2013 SpringBeta conference in Oklahoma City:
Here’s our Top 10 Investor Pitch FAILS! presentation from SpringBeta, presented last night:
VentureSpur will be sponsoring the upcoming SpringBeta 2013 event on May 2nd. We’ll also be making a quick, five-minute presentation: Top 10 Investor Pitch Fails! SpringBeta is an event of the OpenBeta organization, put on by VisitThe404.com. From the event announcement: “Spring Beta is our community
Currently in an open beta, I’m enjoying a new product called Newsle. You can check it out here. Newsle is a web portal, feed and email service that alerts you to “real” news about your friends, as found primarily through your Facebook, LinkedIn, and email directory. The
We recently had the opportunity to interview new mentor, Shane Cole! Shane is the EVP & Principal at Covenant Global Investors. In this interview, we get Shane’s take on mentorship and what types of technologies strike his interest! What was the most important thing a mentor
Accelerators are popping up everywhere. In fact, there is a great democratization of capital underway that is providing a multitude of sources for small amounts of start-up capital – accelerators, angel groups, platforms like Gust, and now crowd-sourcing platforms as well. What used to be
LaunchDFW, the popular Dallas-area blog tracking the growing tech startup scene in DFW, has featured the upcoming launch of the VentureSpur 2013 program there on the blog: Venture Spur Moves into Dallas – Second Startup Accelerator this Month to | LAUNCH DFW.
This startup team has worked their hearts out for this moment! We saw the GoldFire Studios team here at VentureSpur – sometimes at 2AM! – grinding out the code to make this moment possible. And now you, dear gamers, can enjoy the results by joining their Beta
We often receive questions from entrepreneurs about our program. We attempt to answer these questions in our Program FAQ. This particular question is one we receive frequently and merits its own blog post: How is the LaunchOklahoma accelerator different from an incubator that I recently heard about or