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Jun 24, 2011

Startup Dad Gives Baby Up For Adoption

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). He uses his superpowers of recruiting and abilities to read…

500 Startups in 500 Stories

Jun 16, 2011

Top Tech Connectors in Brazil: The GOAP Organizers

Want to know how exciting Brazil is right now?

Brazil’s middle class is booming, their economy is growing steadily, and the 2014 World Cup & 2016 Olympics have made it one of the most attractive emerging markets…

500 Startups in 500 Stories

Jun 16, 2011

Why Working So Hard Might Be Doing Your Startup More Harm Than Good

It’s no secret that s

tartups are unhealthy places to work. At 500 Startups we have observed all kinds of masochistic behaviors by founders and team members while they try to get their…

500 Startups in 500 Stories

Jun 27, 2011

Recruit Top Talent Like Ari Gold From Entourage

This post was written by Ethan Bloch. Ethan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Flowtown where he built the company to 26,000 businesses, profitability and a team of 8 in less than 11 months only to be faced with the decision to shutdown the company or…

500 Startups in 500 Stories

Jun 8, 2011

FITTY GRAND FOR TEH FAST & FURIOUS #500STRONG #WINNING

“Our startups live their lives a quarter mil(e) at a time.”

In January 2011, 500 Startups opened its doors to an underground group of racers. For several months, they built product. They burned the midnight…

500 Startups in 500 Stories

Jun 16, 2011

Top Tech Connectors in Chile & Argentina: The GOAP Organizers

Want to know how exciting Chile and Argentina are right now?

Chile’s focus on entrepreneurship has strong support from the government and its Startup Chile incubator — in fact, President Sebastián…

500 Startups in 500 Stories

Jun 22, 2011

Never Been a Better Time for Women Entrepreneurs

Meet Phoenix (Jean Grey) aka 500 SuperMentor Wendy Tan-White. Wendy is Founder of Moonfruit, a simple and powerful website builder for SMBs who expect better design tools to produce better designed sites. Moonfruit was founded in 1999, survived…

500 Startups in 500 Stories

Jun 11, 2011

An Inside Look at the Secret 500 Accelerator

In response to the accusations by Mountain View residents of accelerator participants emerging with third arms or combining within the accelerator to form shimmering/glowing super-startups, we can neither confirm nor deny these totally awesome side…

500 Startups in 500 Stories

Jun 13, 2011

Celebrate The Small Victories

Meet Lion-O aka SuperMentor Brenden Mulligan (@bmull). Brenden founded ArtistData, a music industry startup that enables artists to easily keep their content up-to-date across multiple marketing channels and consumer touch points, which was acquired in May 2010 by Sonicbids…

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