Founder Scoop

FWIW, Andy Sack, the Executive Director is a great guy with tons of operational experience. I fully expect this program to be fantastic. Full disclosure: Andy is a GP at Founder's Co-op (http://www.founderscoop.com), which invested in my startup.

http://www.founderscoop.com/ http://www.techstars.org/ http://www.launchboxdigital.com/ http://seedcamp.com/ i know there's more, i just can't think of any others off the top of my head.

it's http://www.founderscoop.com/ that you want to lookup a community of founders with equity interest in companies working with the coop

This piece goes into some detail: https://www.founderscoop.com/2024/what-went-wrong-at-techstars/. An erudite and incisive autopsy of a disintegrating accelerator. I'm no longer in the startup scene so I can't vouch for its facts, however.

> https://www.founderscoop.com/2024/what-went-wrong-at-techsta... Thank you, it's what I'm looking for to understand why.

Here's the blog post that she is responding to by Chris DeVore: https://www.founderscoop.com/2024/what-went-wrong-at-techstars/

Thanks for the YC alternativs: http://www.capitalfactory.com - Austin http://www.dreamitventures.com - Philadelphia http://www.founderscoop.com/ - Seattle http://www.launchboxdigital.com/ - Washington, D.C http://www.techstars.org/ - Boulder, Boston http://www.seedcamp.com/ - London http://www.hitforge.com/ - ??? http://www.boostphase.com/ - ??? I'm from Germany.

Nope, you're thinking of Founder's Coop in portland. Here's the discussion on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=164892 They actually have updated their application to include a thank-you to YC: http://www.founderscoop.com/apply.php

I would argue that if you're going to go the trouble of including a "Shout-outs" page, you should mention the company who's application you stole verbatim: http://www.founderscoop.com/shout-outs.php

Seattle 2.0 is pretty involved in the Seattle startup scene. You can check out their job board here at: http://www.seattle20.com/jobs/ Also, I know some TechStars Seattle companies are hiring. These jobs aren't listed on a particular website, but you can check out all the companies that launched in Seattle here: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/11/techstars-launches-ten-new-startups-i… If there is a company you're interested in, I can connect you to the founders as I am friends with alot of those TechStars folks. TechFlash(http://techflash.com) is a good source that blogs about Seattle tech startups. You can keep an eye on that blog to see which companies received funding. I know BigTip.com just raised $500,000 and they are looking for a "hardcore web dev person". Founders Co-op is an early stage investment group/incubator. Andy Sack(@andysack), the managing director of Founders Co-op and TechStars Seattle, has a list of his portfolio companies here http://founderscoop.com/portfolio.php. Some of them are hiring as well. You want to follow Andy Sack if you want to get on the ball with the Seattle startup scene. his blog is http://asack.typepad.com. Hope any of this helps. I'll get back to you if I think of some more.