Meet one of our super-mentors, Captain Underpants (aka Dave Schappell). In his own words: “I’m the founder, CEO and door-desk-builder at TeachStreet — a Seattle-based local/learning startup, helping people find great local (and…

Meet Green Lantern, aka super-mentor Ben Lewis. Ben is a co-founder and VP of Product at Tapjoy, a platform offering mobile publishers solutions for application discovery, rich advertising, and virtual good sales. Before life as an entrepreneur, Ben was a product manager at…

Meet The Riddler, the first 500 Startups super-mentor to make an appearance on this blog. The Riddler, aka Ryan Junee, is a serial entrepreneur and start-up advisor by day. By night, he schemes complex riddles to trick fellow entrepreneurs and…

Our first 500 Startups event, Warm Gun, is only a couple days away!

For folks who can’t make it in person, we’ll be live streaming the event. So you can check out all the great sessions from wherever you are. The…

500 Startups Mentor Ryan Junee continues with Part 2 of his thoughts about startup acquisitions. Catch up on Part 1.

This is a continuation of my previous post in which I talked about some of the key things you and your…

It was a dark and stormy night. In a secret lair hidden far far away from mere mortals, the SuperMentors of 500 Startups convened. They came from all over — Gotham, Metropolis, the planets Vulcan, Cybertron, and Naboo, and The Shire. In just a few hours, they devised a…

• What can you learn from 7 awesome corporate blogs? (from KISSMetrics’ blog)
• Five reasons why corporate blogs fail (an older post from…

Brought to you by 500 Startups and two of our esteemed mentors & founders — Jared Goralnick (AwayFind), and Joshua Baer (OtherInbox), Inbox Love is a one-day conference on the future of email and the inbox as a platform. Coming to San Francisco in early 2011.



Stay tuned!

We recently announced the Twilio Fund, a new investment vehicle for startups building on top of the Twilio cloud communications platform. Today we’re thrilled to welcome another addition to the 500 Startups platform micro-fund family — the CrowdFlower Fund! The CrowdFlower…