How To Get In To 500 Startups

Even though VC Dave McClure doesn't have any grand predictions for 2013 and thinks "most predictions are crap," he does have one thing to say: "menus suck." In a recent post on McClure's blog, 500hats, he writes about how the market opportunity for food tech is huge.

500 Startups founder Dave McClure (Photo credit: Joi) Seed fund and incubator 500 Startups is bullish on international investing – especially Latin America and India, the overseas markets it will concentrate on in its second fund, said Paul Singh, an investing partner who manages the accelerator and focuses on investments in [...]

To invest in the best batches of tech startups, there’s naturally no better place to look in the country other than Silicon Valley. It’s the technology nerve center where ideas, capital and culture find chemistry and generate more venture capital and filed patents than anywhere else in the United States.

Accelerator and seed stage investor 500 Startups held its fifth demo day Wednesday for its latest batch of 32 startups to pitch to investors.

Out of the 33 companies selected for 500 Startups' fifth class, 7 companies boast at least one female founder on the team. An early-stage seed fund and incubator program in Mountain View, California, 500 Startups invests primarily in consumer and SMB internet startups, and related web infrastructure services. This week, 7 [...]

In a recent post, I discussed the painful honestly of Silicon Valley tech VC Dave McClure’s much-discussed meditation, “Late Bloomer, Not a Loser.”  I’ve since had a chance to read more about McClure’s unconventional investing philosophy, reflected in his firm, 500 Startups, and the approach seemed worth discussing as well [...]