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
I enjoyed judging the RBPC this year and helping to select the Trailblazer Capital special prize winner. I wrote the experience up in my previous blog post. Check it out. The post includes these pieces of take-away advice for business plan competitors: The take-away for
I just spent three days judging the 2013 Rice Business Plan Competition at Rice University in Houston, Texas as part of the team sent from Trailblazer Capital. The RBPC is the largest and most rewarding business plan competition in the world, providing teams with more than $1.5MM in investment prizes, including this year
VentureSpur has hit upon a novel way to pick one of its accelerator Finalists: Crowd Favorite Finalist Contest: Win a VentureSpur Finalist Slot on Twitter! | VentureSpur Accelerator. VentureSpur has decided to award a slot as a VentureSpur Finalist to the crowd favorite on Twitter! Whichever company
We’ve continued our entrepreneurial interviews at VentureSpur and gotten some great results. Here’s the latest interview, from Cory Miller, CEO of iThemes. Mentor Cory Miller, Founder and CEO of iThemes, recently completed his interview with VentureSpur. Learn why Cory views web-based ventures as the new
Here’s the latest entrepreneurial interview from a VentureSpur mentor, Renzi Stone. Renzi is the CEO of Saxum Strategic Communications in Oklahoma City. Saxum is the leading integrated full-service communications firm in the region, and Renzi has interesting things to say. Mentor Renzi Stone, Chairman and
David Matthews, co-founder of VentureSpur and Managing Partner of Trailblazer Capital, has recently completed a brief interview with VentureSpur as part of their mentor interview series. Recently we interviewed David Matthews, VentureSpur Co-Founder, Mentor and Managing Partner at Trailblazer Capital. Read on for David’s take on mentorship and
VentureSpur has announced its Finalists for 2012. These are the 10 companies that were selected from all applications to participate in the Quick Pitch process with the accelerator, to win a chance to join the first class. I can tell you, there are some very
Here’s our VentureSpur mentor interview with Piyush Patel. Piyush is the founder and CEO of PL Studios, an Oklahoma City company that leads the world in digital animation training. Fun stuff! They count people like Pixar Studios as clients! Piyush is an interesting guy and
Here’s the entrepreneurial interview that VentureSpur did with Bill Paiva. Bill is probably the most senior venture capital investor based in Oklahoma, and he’s a partner in one of the nation’s most storied and accomplished VC firms, Sevin Rosen Funds. It really is an extraordinary opportunity