Whois & Analysis for techstars.com

Techstars is the global ecosystem that helps entrepreneurs build businesses.

Techstars was founded in Boulder, Colorado in 2006 by David Cohen, Brad Feld, David Brown, and Jared Polis.

Through the Techstars Worldwide Entrepreneur Network, founders and their teams are able to connect to other entrepreneurs, experts, mentors, alumni, investors, community leaders, and corporate partners that will help their companies grow.

Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, or both).

Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity–an ownership stake–in the companies they invest in.

Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful.

The start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from the high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), social media or biotechnology.

Mentorship is a relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person.

The mentor may be older or younger than the person being mentored, but she or he must have a certain area of expertise.

It is a learning and development partnership between someone with vast experience and someone who wants to learn.

Mentorship experience and relationship structure affect the "amount of psychosocial support, career guidance, role modeling, and communication that occurs in the mentoring relationships in which the protégés and mentors engaged.".

Seed accelerators, also known as startup accelerators, are fixed-term, cohort-based programs, that include mentorship and educational components and culminate in a public pitch event or demo day.

While traditional business incubators are often government-funded, generally take no equity, and focus on biotech, financial technology ("FinTech"), medical technology ("MedTech"), clean tech or product-centric companies, accelerators can be either privately or publicly funded and focus on a wide range of industries.

Unlike business incubators, the application process for seed accelerators is open to anyone, but highly competitive.

There are specific types of seed accelerators, such as corporate accelerator, which are often subsidiaries or programs of larger corporations that act like seed accelerators.

A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.

The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures.

The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential entities, and examine network dynamics.