Little about the accelerator program StartX is conventional. On the one hand, the 5.5-year-old, Palo Alto, Ca.-based outfit is a nonprofit that helps founders affiliated with Stanford University to build peer groups, as well as their confidence. Specifically, it provides companies with 10 weeks of free educational programming about everything from setting goals to launching […]
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Bullpen Capital on Its New Fund, Post-Seed Deals, and Changing LP Sentiment
A few years ago, when three prominent operators came together to create a venture fund, Bullpen Capital, they figured they’d line up capital easily. Paul Martino has founded four companies, including the ad optimization platform Aggregate Knowledge; Richard Melmon cofounded Electronic Arts; and Duncan Davidson cofounded Covad Communications and SkyPilot Networks. LPs couldn’t care less. “We […]