Meet Professor X, aka 500 SuperMentor Hong Quan (@hongdquan). An entrepreneur and recruiter building cars and startups, Hong has even hired a real honest-to-goodness rockstar (#3 on Billboard charts)…

Note from Enrique Allen: Please take a quick creativity break (even if you’re super busy just write the first thing that comes to mind from any of the following prompts)…

Note from Enrique Allen: The following article is written from an environmental perspective that 500 Startups is a “meta-startup” ecosystem and startups are the primary customers we serve. My personal evidence over the last three…

This is a cross post from the Altos Ventures Blog, authored by Anthony Lee. Thanks Anthony for letting us reblog!

In my twenty years of working in and with startups, I’ve continually tried to figure out what makes some work and others not. There are…