Meet Silver Surfer aka 500 SuperMentor Dan Martell (@danmartell). Dan is the Co-Founder of Flowtown, a social marketing application for businesses. Self diagnosed as having intense…

Meet The Highlander, aka 500 Mentor Elliot Loh. Elliot is an entrepreneur in search of the next big thing. Most recently, he played several roles at Geni, starting as a design/product co-founder and finishing as COO. While at Geni, Elliot prototyped Yammer, which went on to win TechCrunch50…

Meet Bear Grylls, aka 500 SuperMentor TJ Sassani. TJ is the Founder and CEO of zozi, a company rapidly becoming the go-to place for the coolest experiences and activities. zozi aggregates thousands of merchants in the experience category and is striving to…

This post was originally published by Robert Laing on the mygengo blog. Robert and mygengo are part of the 500 Startups family. You may remember Robert from his recent guest post on doing a startup in Japan.

Since this is a long post (albeit very…

Welcome Geckoboard to the 500 Startups family! Geckoboard just launched out of beta and announced their seed round today. This post below was originally published on the Geckoboard Blog.

This guest post comes to you from across the pond — written by Milo Yiannopoulos, a technology columnist for The Telegraph in London who writes about the internet, copyright, privacy and start-ups. Milo is commissioning editor of The Telegraph’s Tech Start-Up…

Since we announced the 500 Startups Accelerator last week, we’ve been having several excellent talks from our…

This post was written by Blake Williams, co-founder and VP Product at Keepsy (a 500 company). Based in Menlo Park, Keepsy lets you crowdsource photo albums with friends. Blake’s tour of Silicon Valley includes StoryJumper, Topix, eBay/Paypal, AOL…

Meet Lucky Luke aka 500 SuperMentor and Founder Michael Oiknine (@apsalarinc). Michael is co-founder & CEO of Apsalar, a behavioral targeting and analytics platform for mobile…