From the Investors
David Cohen of Techstars announces a new Seed and Series A fund to invest in companies emerging from the Techstars ecosystem in “Techstars Ventures Raises New $150M Fund“
Brad Feld of Foundry Group shares the story back to 2009 of how the Techstars team came together to raise the Techstars Ventures fund in “How to Raise a $150 Million VC Fund“
Cody Simms of Techstars opens up applications for the Disney Accelerator’s Summer batch in Los Angeles, powered by Techstars in “Disney Accelerator 2015 Applications are Open“
Hannah Davis of MergeLane reveals the first class of eight women-led startups in the MergeLane accelerator in “2015 MergeLane Team Announcement“
Blake Bartlett of OpenView Partners and Charles Thornburgh discuss the combination of art and science, ‘product first; sales and marketing second’ and more in “The Killer Advantage of Vertical SaaS: Sitting Down with Civitas Learning CEO Charles Thornburgh”
Angel Investor Jason Calacanis details the mechanics of hackathons, ways to impress the crowd, and the upcoming LAUNCH Hackathon in “How to Win Any Hackathon – and Why They’re Important”
From the Operators
Julie Zhuo of Facebook provides her three tactics to fight the feelings of being an ‘imposter’ in “The Imposter Syndrome – Mastering the Art of Pretending“
Joel Gascoigne of Buffer encourages entrepreneurs to ‘follow that little spark, the idea in the very back of your mind’ to pursue ‘fulfilling work’ in “The Dream Forms Over Time”
Brett Bivens of Visible launches a tool to gauge how investors perceive the early-stage funding landscape in “SentimentVC – Sentiment Analysis on the Early Stage Market”
Marcelo Calbucci of EveryMove explains how a new feature may ‘cannibilize’ attention from an existing feature, and not add attention to the overall product in “Attention Cannibilization“