Welcome to the Draper University of Heroes, a new school in San Mateo, California, where aspiring entrepreneurs get a taste of the madness involved in running a startup. We featured the program in this week’s issue of Bloomberg Businessweek and...
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Draper University Gets Aspiring Entrepreneurs Out of the Classroom
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Thomas Foley's next act is a new company called CapRally that is backed by venture capitalist Tim Draper.
Entrepreneur Tries Second Act After Secondary Market Fizzles
When Thomas Foley started Xpert Financial in 2009, he had a simple thesis: Going public was too costly for most companies, and the private fundraising process was overly opaque. So he created an electronic exchange for private companies to raise...
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Pebble's new watch is supposed to display messages from your smartphone.
Rejected By VCs, Pebble Watch Raises $3.8M on Kickstarter
When it comes to the road to success in Silicon Valley, Eric Migicovsky was definitely on the right path. His idea for creating a watch that can display messages from your smartphone was embraced by Y Combinator, the prestigious business...
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