Tag: 20under20
East Ventures Alpha: 100-day Startups Accelerator Program
Singapore-born East Ventures, a venture capital firm with base in Singapore and Indonesia has just announced a 100-day start-up accelerator program with the aim to get good potential technopreneurs fly off the ground. The East Ventures Alpha program will kick-off in September and end in December 2011. The program will be held at East Ventures [...]
Peter Thiel on Startups: Something fundamentally new, fundamentally different
Why will employee number 20 join your company? Speaking at the ICE Ideas Conference in Auckland yesterday, Peter Thiel brought up the question every new entrepreneur might have never thought of – why will employee number 20 join the company. He told the audience, it’s the one question he asks entrepreneur looking to begin a startup. [...]
20 under 20 gets $100,000 each to dropout college
Peter Thiel via The Thiel Fondation announced the appointment of 24 Thiel Fellows in San Fransisco recently. “The Fellows” are referring to a tremendous group of young people who would change the world through their creativity in many fields including biotech, information technology, mobility and space. According to James O’Neill, the head of the Thiel Foundation, The Fellows’ creativity, intelligence and leadership were [...]
