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Techstars is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator founded by David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown, and Jared Polis that holds 13 week programs for startups in Boulder, New York City, Boston, Seattle, San Antonio, Austin, Chicago and London.〔Rusli, Evelyn. (Heirs to Old Money Plunge into Tech ). ''The New York Times''. April 4, 2012.〕〔(Innovations & Ideas ). ''The Denver Post''. February 4, 2007.〕 It is considered one of the best startup accelerators in the world.〔http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/10/these-are-the-15-best-accelerators-in-the-u-s/〕〔http://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/the-15-best-startup-accelerators-in-the-us.html〕〔http://techcrunch.com/2015/05/07/how-to-make-the-most-of-your-startup-accelerator-program-experience/〕〔http://venturebeat.com/2014/11/23/7-key-things-you-need-to-know-about-an-accelerator-like-techstars/〕〔http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2015/03/17/the-best-startup-accelerators-of-2015-powering-a-tech-boom/〕 Fewer than 1% of the companies that apply to Techstars are accepted.〔Chafkin, Max. (Future Techstars, Step Forward ). ''Inc.''. April 2, 2012.〕 As of mid-2015, Techstars has accepted 526 companies into its program. Collectively, these companies have raised over $1,300,000,000 USD.〔http://www.techstars.com/companies/stats/〕 Program mentors include Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley, tumblr CEO David Karp, HubSpot co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah, and Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures.〔(Mentors ). ''Techstars''.〕〔Bilton, Nick. (Techstars Nurtures Start-Ups With Mentors ). ''The New York Times''. April 8, 2011.〕〔Jeffries, Adrianne. (Techstars NY More Selective than the Ivy League ). ''The New York Observer''. November 24, 2010.〕 A notable competing accelerator is Y Combinator, to which it is often compared.〔http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/11/20/techstars-graduates-success-rates-what-the-numbers-show/〕〔http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21651248-industry-specialises-spotting-potential-insurgents-faces-some-its〕〔http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/04/04/combinator-beats-odds-tech-investing/5jXpU1N79Nq7ZDu9t6MMzN/story.html〕 ==History== In 2006, Techstars was founded in Boulder, Colorado by David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown, and Jared Polis. Techstars held its first program in 2007 with ten companies.〔Myers, Courtney Boyd. (Techstars: the next great incubator unleashes 11 startups in NYC ). ''The Next Web''. April 16, 2011.〕 Of the ten, two were acquired that same year, three achieved positive exits by 2012, and two currently generate millions in annual revenue.〔Bigelow, Bruce V. (Lessons from Techstars’ David Cohen on Building a Startup Culture: 7 Takeaways from the Xconomy San Diego Dinner ). ''Xconomy''. February 3, 2012.〕 In sebsequent years, Techstars expanded to four additional cities: Boston in 2009; Seattle in 2010; New York City in 2011; a "cloud" program in San Antonio in 2012; and Austin in 2013.〔(Results ) ''Results: Techstars’’.〕〔Olanoff, Drew. (The eleven companies relocated to San Antonio to join the first Techstars Cloud ). ''The Next Web''. April 11, 2012.〕〔Thomas, Mike. (Techstars Program to Jumpstart San Antonio’s Investment Community ). ''The San Antonio Business Journal''. April 4, 2012.〕〔Dickinson, Boonsri. (Microsoft Just Picked 11 Startups to Build Amazing Apps for Kinect ). ''Business Insider''. April 2, 2012.〕 Techstars has since expanded into many other locations worldwide (). In January 2011, the firm launched the Global Accelerator Network, which links 22 similar programs internationally.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Techstars )〕〔(Global Accelerator Network )〕 The network was launched in conjunction with President Barack Obama’s Startup America Partnership.〔Spencer, Malia. (AlphaLab now part of Techstars Network ). ''Pittsburgh Business Times''. January 31, 2011.〕 In September 2013, Techstars made its first acquisition with NameLayer, a repository of “high-quality,” tech-focused domain names. It now offers these domain names to its program participants.〔http://venturebeat.com/2013/09/24/techstars-buys-namelayer-to-save-its-startups-from-awful-domain-names/〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Techstars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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