Would be interesting to see a study focused on student debt and decision making around founding a startup or diving into entrepreneurship. On the one hand, those who graduate without a lot of loans would be financially enabled to dive into e'ship. On the other hand, loans might actually influence and be a driving factor for recent graduates who couldn't land jobs to create their own businesses.
His thesis: "Although native apps may have won the battle for consumer hearts and minds, for content and business value, the web wins." It will be interesting to see how this changes 3 years from now.
Hi there -- I authored the article. You are correct, as I did not include Softbank (see 2nd paragraph for methodology on which VCs were included). As you can imagine, this was a painstakingly time intensive proces so we had to weed out some of the VC firms in the area somehow (as is we looked at over 200 different partners). If I get enough calls for updates, I will add to the list and let people know. Thanks for mentioning!
I interviewed the founder of The Startup Leadership Program (now in 7 cities). He spoke to how the program is different from Techstars and Dogpatch, being focused on creating a global network of entrepreneurs a la biz school networks, except for engineers, scientists, etc.
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