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Finally, Techstars has corporate and network sponsorships that help connect the startup community to companies and influential mentors across the world. Techstars allows for companies to cultivate new startup accelerators. They highlight that this program can also help source fresh ideas through mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
= Purpose/Background <br/> = Techstars was started in 2006 with the plan to start a worldwide network of startups, mentors, corporations, entrepreneurs, and venture funds. By November of 2006, they had a team of top mentors including David Cohen, David Brown, Brad Feld, and Jared Polis. These individuals are some of the top investors and startup entrepreneurs. Today, the team has expanded to a number of board members and regional contacts- you can read about them [https://www.techstars.com/team/ here].
Additionally, here is a video of Brad Feld at Stanford, giving a talk titled, "Great Entrepreneurs Go Out and Do"
