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Faith and History, by Reinhold Niebuhr; and Meaning in History, by Karl Lowith
The Slaughter-Bench of History
Faith and History.
By Reinhold Niebuhr.
Scribners. 257 pp . . $3.50.
Meaning in History.
By Karl Löwith.
University of Chicago Press. 257 pp. $4.00.
Judaism is tormented by the fact that the Messiah has not come, while the gas chambers have. Christianity is tormented by the fact that the Messiah did come, almost two thousand years ago, and what difference did it make? Hegel spoke of the "slaughter-bench of history" to which mankind was delivered as part of the "cunning of reason," that is, as part of the larger scheme of historical providence; thus did he nobly synthesize, as only an academic sage could, radical suffering with radical optimism. But the majority of men are too undisciplined to submit to such a theodicy, and they persist in asking with Job: why, why? It is with the stubborn endurance of unredeemed history that these two books by Protestant theologians are concerned.
Reinhold Niebuhr has earned an enviable reputation both as man and thinker; but that does not prevent each of his successive books from being progressively less interesting. He is not saying anything he has not said before, and he seems to be less concerned with thinking problems through than with convincing others of truths with which he is well satisfied. So earnest is he in his persuasion, so American in his need to convince his countrymen, that his theology, often accused of being pessimistic, actually has a pervasive "uplifting" tone: he has been enticed by the democratic ethos into representing ideas in their public relations, rather than in their important, private ones.
The themes, then, of Faith and History are not unfamiliar. The modern secular notion of progress is shown to have substituted a faith in history for a faith in Christ, or to have even identified history, as being itself redemptive, with the Christ. Evil is rooted in man's liberty, which tends to self-centeredness and which introduces "provisional meaninglessness" into history; "ultimately this rebellion of man against God is overcome by divine power." (But this crucial term, "ultimately," is never explicated.) Paganism, on the other hand, is rather cavalierly accused of not having properly appreciated the ability of human freedom to direct the natural course of affairs, and thus it was fated to be shattered by Christianity; moreover, now that a sense of meaningful history has been won, there is supposedly no return possible to a paganism which regards history as but a natural repetition of events. The ultimate ambiguities of human existence can no longer simply be endured, but "must" be overcome.
Yet the crucial question—what does this "meaningful history" mean?—is evaded. Of the "second coming" of Christ there is hardly a whisper in these pages. Niebuhr seems to say at times that redemption is not for history itself, but only for individuals who confess their perpetual rebelliousness against God. Here the "meaning" of history is completed by contrition: "The final revelation of New Testament faith . . . gives life a final meaning without promising the annulment of history's moral obscurities." But Niebuhr cannot really deliver history over to godlessness or blind faith: though he admits there is no Christian philosophy of history which is intellectually compelling, he believes he can "prove its relevance" by showing that those theories which hold history to be rationally intelligible end in self-contradiction and paradox.
This last is important for what it reveals about Niebuhr's method: where he can show that rational analysis leads to a paradox, he feels that he has ended in the truth. But that the human intellect is thwarted in trying to answer the last questions of "why?" does not in itself sanction a Christian answer, or any religious answer for that matter. The contradictions of human reason and human existence may have to be endured rather than overcome; that they exist does not prove that they "must" be overcome. To point to "a depth of reality where mystery impinges on meaning" is to point to a mystery—and not necessarily to God.
It is not so much a personal incapacity of Niebuhr that is involved here, as it is an intrinsic dilemma of Christianity on which he is impaled. For the modern age has broken down Christianity into its original elements—Judaism and Hellenism—and the compound cannot regain its stability. Writes Niebuhr: "With the Greeks modern culture does not require the Gospel to make life intelligible; and with the Jews it does not require the Gospel to make history meaningful." It is possible to believe that the Messiah will come, as do the Jews, who are his witnesses, and who suffer and hope and lean on the Torah. It is also possible to believe that he will not come, as did the Greeks, who resigned themselves rationally to fate while seeking to ascend to a realm of eternal truths beyond time and history. But to insist that the Messiah has come—how then does one go on living at the "slaughter-bench of history"?
This Christian dilemma is frankly confronted by Karl Löwith in his Meaning in History: "To the critical mind, neither a providential design nor a natural law of progressive development is discernible in the tragic human comedy of all times." He suggests an alliance between Christian faith and philosophical scepticism, in that neither sees any proof or disproof of the existence of God in "the wasteful economy of history": "The human result, though not the motivation, of scepticism and faith in regard to the outcome of history is the same: a definite resignation, the worldly brother of devotion, in the face of the incalculability and unpredictability of historical issues." Temporal events are of no consequence to a Christian faith in God "as revealed in Christ and hidden in nature and history." (My italics.)
Meaning in History tries to show that the modern notion of history has its roots in the Jewish-Christian eschatological pattern and culminates in the secularization of that pattern, so that the modern age is "Christian by derivation and anti-Christian by consequence." The plan of the book works backwards, with essays on Burckhardt, Marx, Hegel, Proudhon, Voltaire, Vico, Bossuet, Joachim of Flores, Augustine, Orosius, and the Bible. In its origins, Christianity was not a philosophy of history but, on the contrary, an announcement of the imminent end of history and of the fundamental antagonism between the kingdoms of men and the Kingdom of God. That is why the very phrase "Christian civilization," or "Christian society," is a contradiction in terms, for "Christianity is the very opposite of a religion fit for the world." Löwith goes on to write: "The mere fact that Christianity interprets itself as a New Testament, superseding an old one and fulfilling the promises of the latter, necessarily invites further progress and innovation, either religious or irreligious and antireligious . . . ." So, with the defeat of the original hope that the "end of days" was at hand, there began the historical adventures of Western eschatology in which the religious and anti-religious innovations spent themselves—through ecclesiastical obscurantism, medieval messianism, French Enlightenment, German Idealism and Marxism, and modern nihilism. Which brings us to our own day, no longer Christian, not Jewish, not pagan, but whistling in the dark.


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Mass Spec: Taking UHR (Ultra High Resolution) to a Whole New Level
Posted by bruker on Jul 8, 2014 | 0 comments
Average cost to bring a drug to market: $5 Billion
Average time to bring a drug to market: 9 Years
These are truly staggering numbers – that's $1.5+ million a day!
But what's that have to do with ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry, you ask?
Simple – data matters, and quality of data is paramount. And the quicker reliable data can be produced and analyzed, the more pharma companies can chip away at that insane hourly rate. Ultra High Resolution (UHR)mass spectrometry enablesfaster, more accurate drug discovery, and the ability to more rapidly analyze compounds with extremely high data confidence.
UHR – Shattering Performance Barriers
The combination of resolution, accuracy and speed is the holy grail of researchers – and modern analytical instrumentation has historically involved tradeoffs. It seems as though researchers are forced to whistle Meatloaf's "Two Outta Three Ain't Bad" as they contemplate which feature – speed, accuracy or resolution – will be compromised in the next run. Fact is at $1.5 million a day, compromising anything gets pretty expensive.
UHR redefines our understanding of 'high resolution,' breaking past the perceived limitations of mass spec resolution. And it does it without sacrificing accuracy or speed. It delivers extreme sensitivity across the entire mass range – from very small molecules up to large intact proteins.
Applications for UHR
I've been around marketing a while, so I've come to dislike tired, generic phrases like 'quantum leap' or 'paradigm shifting.' Ultra high resolution (UHR), however, is the next evolution of o-TOF mass spectrometry, and its applications range far beyond drug discovery. UHR is perfectly suited to the analysis of unknown compounds in complex matrices, whether they are small molecules or antibodies. It has applications in proteomics, metabolomics, small molecule research, glycomics, screening applications, and more…making it both an incredibly powerful and immensely versatile technology.
Back on the subject of drug discovery: how does UHR fare chipping away at that daily drug cost referenced above? To be fair, that would really depend on how it's used, how frequently, and so on, but here's what I can share:
UHR delivers extremely high resolution detection of low-abundance compounds in sharp UHPLC peaks. Even more impressively, it delivers qualitative and quantitative results from a single LC/MS analysis.
How High Res is Ultra High Res?
At Bruker, we've built ultra high resolution technology into both our maXis and impact system lines. The impact HD™ – Bruker's unique UHR-QqTOF (Ultra-High Resolution Qq-Time-Of-Flight) mass spectrometry system – boasts >40,000 full-sensitivity resolution (FSR). Our maXis HD™ ups the ante even further, with an industry-leading (and record-breaking) full sensitivity resolution of > 75,000.
UHR mass spectrometry enhances analytical performance levels for virtually any application in which trace analysis from complex, high-background matrices is a challenge. This includes fields such as biomarker research, identification of impurities, or residue screening.
Do you have any experience with ultra high resolution mass spectrometry?Read More
Keeping Honey Safe – Smarter Analytical Techniques & Testing Methods Become the Gold Standard
Posted by bruker on Jul 3, 2014 | 0 comments
The food industry is constantly facing increasing demands to perform food safety testing to ensure product quality and consumer safety. Development of smarter analytical techniques and testing methodologies aims to improve the accuracy, speed, confidence and ease of use required for efficient food screening.
Today, MRM LC-MS/MS is considered the gold standard for food safety testing and methodologies.
Honey Has its Problems
You may not realize it, but the rules and regulations as to the content, labeling and nature of honey is under continuous debate. With a number of contested environmental, ecological and personal health issues to consider, modern honey manufacturers are faced with multiple challenges.
The treatment of honey with veterinary medicines is a particularly controversial issue and the maximum residue limits of commonly used antibiotics – such as sulfonamides - are commonly set at trace levels. Sulfonamides are an important group of broad spectrum antibacterial drugs, often used in honey production to prevent and treat potential bacterial growth. Sulfonamides also fight disease in honey bees. Consequently, residues of sulfonamides are frequently detected in samples of commercially-available honey products.
Quantitative sulfonamide analysis, however, presents the industry with considerable challenges, since traditional analytical techniques have difficulty achieving the selectivity, specificity and accuracy to perform accurate low level quantitation within complex biological matrices. This means that increasingly sophisticated analytical techniques are needed to meet evolving food safety criteria.
Sulfonamides – Difficult to Detect at Low Levels in Honey
Low-level sulfonamide residues are difficult to analyze. The complex interactions that arise from a biological matrix such as honey aren't well suited to traditional techniques, which commonly suffer extensive preparation times, limited selectivity and low throughput.
Of the range of MS techniques available, multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) with triple quadrupole LC-MS has emerged as the most effective for food analysis, favored for its high sensitivity and selectivity in complex matrices with minimal sample preparation. MRM methods of mass spectrometry analysis employ a mass filtering function to enhance selectivity during analyte quantitation. Ions of interest are first pre-selected as 'pre-cursor' ions before undergoing fragmentation within a collision cell. By then filtering only the sequence-specific fragment ions for analysis, MRM MS enables highly sensitive and easy to perform multiplexing analysis with the specificity required at low analyte levels even within complex biological matrices.
Triple Quadrupole LC-MS with Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM)
One of our teams at Bruker used high performance triple quadrupole liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS TQ) with multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) methodologies to develop a fast, simple and robust technique for accurate and confident low-level sulfonamide quantitation.
UHPLC & EVOC Elite – Excellent Limits of Detection & Repeatability
Triple Quadrupole MS MRM monitoring is a technology that offers complete analyte selectivity, even for samples within complex matrices. In the case of Bruker's EVOC Elite – used in the study – we've also incorporated a unique Active Exhaust feature that improves triple quadrupole MS sensitivity and noise reduction by eliminating gas recirculation in the system.
In the study, an experiment was carried out into the simultaneous determination of sulfonamide residues in honey using Advance UHPLC and the EVOQ Elite triple quadrupole LC-MS/MS system with MRM-based sulfonamide analysis. The system demonstrated excellent detection limits and repeatability for all nine sulfonamides in the study, making it a useful method for the screening and quantification of medicinal sulfonamides commonly used in honey production, to the level required by the EU and other nations.
Which analytical tool do you most frequently use to perform your most challenging analyses?Read More
Having an impact…II
Posted by bruker on Jun 22, 2014 | 0 comments
At the annual ASMS conference down in Baltimore in mid-June, Bruker introduced the impact II – our follow-on to the industry changing impact QTOF platform.
The impact II is our new 'omics knowledge generation platform, delivering best-in-class quantitative proteomics, intact protein analysis and metabolomics capabilities.
The impact II retains many of the features that made the original impact an essential part of the proteomics toolbox, such as the CaptiveSpray nanoBooster. (One user shared that their impact was capable of delivering "untouched performances for over 6-8 weeks of 24/7 use" for routine shotgun bottom up proteomics).
The impact II raises the stakes with triple-quadropole-like sensitivity – benefits of the system's latest UHR TOF technology: a dual ion funnel, an IonBooster Source, the CaptiveSpray Nanobooster and an HDC collision cell. The sum of these parts? Unrivaled performance.
Taking Performance Beyond Known Limits
The impact II delivers:
- 3-4X higher dynamic range
- 50GB/sec sampling speeds deliver high definition resolution on an LC timescale
- One-shot plug-and-play acquisition with triple-quad sensitivity
- Much higher dynamic range in analyte concentration
From Data to Knowledge
Delivering high quality data is a must for any analytical instrument. With mass spec and proteomics, however, it isn't enough. Data must be parsed, analyzed, and transformed into knowledge. ProteinScape - Bruker's central knowledge generation database for proteomics and glycomics – transforms the impact II data into relevant biological knowledge. Data from the impact II can be combined with data from other MS systems, and can be linked to knowledge databases (e.g., 3D structures, Gene Ontology, Pride).
Biology's Diversity Demands Versatility
The impact II's unique spectral qualities (resolution, sensitivity, mass accuracy), wide dynamic range (5 orders of magnitude), benchtop design and ability to deliver results in a single LC run make it an incredibly versatile system. Yes – it provides best-in-class quantitative proteomics, intact protein analysis and metabolomics capabilities. It's also a speed demon when it comes to ultra-fast shotgun proteomics experiments. But it's also the perfect system for:
- drug metabolite, degradant and impurity identification and quantitation
- synthetic chemistry support
- forensic and doping control
- food and water testing
Learn more about the Bruker impact II. (LINK TO PRESS RELEASE OR PRODUCT PAGE, WHEN LIVE)Read More
Bruker @ ASMS2014
Posted by bruker on Jun 11, 2014 | 0 comments
ASMS kicks off down in Baltimore on Sunday, June 15, and hopefully you'll be getting a chance to enjoy spectacular views of the Inner Harbor like this one:
Bruker has tons of events, posters and oral sessions on the agenda this year, and a rocking hospitality suite open on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (with a live band) nights. Everything kicks off Sunday morning with our User Meeting, followed by our customer appreciation party at the Hard Rock Café.
To see our full ASMS 2014 schedule of events, head over to our events site at: http://www.bdalevents.com/asms2014.html
Here's a quick rundown of what's on tap this week at ASMS:
Sunday, June 15
}8:00am – 12:30pm, User Meeting, Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards, Grand Ball Room, 110 S Eutaw Street
12:30 – 4:30pm, Bruker Customer Appreciation Event – Hard Rock Cafe, 601 E Pratt Street
Monday, June 16
7:00am – 8:15am, Bruker Breakfast Workshop, Baltimore Convention Center – Room 341/342
8:00am – 9:00am, Bruker Media Event, Hilton Hotel, Key Ballroom 6
9:00am – 5:00pm, Poster Session, Exhibits, Booth 49 • Baltimore Convention Center
8:00pm – 11:00pm, Bruker Hospitality Suite, Key Ballroom, Hilton Hotel
Tuesday, June 17
7:00am – 8:15am, Bruker Breakfast Workshop, Baltimore Convention Center – Room 341/342
9:00am – 5:00pm, Poster Session, Exhibits, Booth 49 • Baltimore Convention Center
8:00pm – 11:00pm, Bruker Hospitality Suite, Key Ballroom, Hilton Hotel
Wednesday, June 18
7:00am – 8:15am, Bruker Breakfast Workshop, Baltimore Convention Center – Room 341/342
9:00am-5:00pm, Poster Session, Exhibits, Booth 49 • Baltimore Convention Center
8:00pm – 11:00pm, Bruker Hospitality Suite, Key Ballroom, Hilton Hotel – Live band
Thursday, June 19
9:00am -2:30pm, Poster Session, Exhibits, Booth 49 • Baltimore Convention Center
Out and About: Bruker Upcoming Events
Posted by bruker on Jun 1, 2014 | 0 comments
For a complete list of events and tradeshows at which Bruker will be exhibiting, presenting, speaking, hosting hospitality suites, running demos and more, visit Bruker's Event Calendar at bruker.com/events.
This Month: June 2014
06/01/2014 – Forum LABO & BIOTECH 2014
Port de Versailles, France
06/01/2014 – College Canada Conference
Vancouver, BC, CA – College Chemistry Canada (C3) Conference
Antwerp, Belgium – 9th European Molecular Imaging Meeting
Baltimore, Maryland
Booth – 49; Hospitality Suite – Key Ballroom 6
Check out our events site for in-depth coverage.
06/19/2014 – Annual Congress of the Swiss Society for Microbiology
Fribourg, Switzerland
New Orleans, LA / US – Institute of Food Technologies
06/23/2014 – Metabolomics 2014
Tsuruoka, Japan – 10th International Conference of the Metabolomics Society
Register for the free Bruker Luncheon Event at-the-metabolomics-2014.html
Next Month: July 2014
07/01/2014 – Microscience
Manchester, UK
07/09/2014 – New Frontiers in Biophysics
Warwick, UK – British Biophysical Society, biennial meeting
Copenhagen, Denmark – Alzheimer´s Associations International Conference
Penticton, Canada – 14th Annual Enology & Viticulture Conference
07/21/2014 – Foodtechnology 2014
Las Vegas, NV, US – 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Food Processing & Technology
Impact HD – Proteomics, Forensics, Drug Discovery, Impurity Detection, Food Testing and More
Posted by bruker on May 25, 2014 | 0 comments
Our new brochure for the impact HD went live a few weeks back, and we've gotten some feedback from scientists who were surprised at the breadth of functionality the HD offers.
Often, we run across users of a mass spec instrument who are pretty cloistered in terms of their research. Proteomics scientists tend to study…well….proteins. Food safety scientists typically screen for contaminants.
Working for an analytical instrument company involved in many disciplines allows us to see the 'bigger capabilities picture' more often, so the system's broad usefulness comes as less of a surprise.
The impact HD is ideal for:
- Biomarker discovery and validation in proteomics and metabolomics
- Drug metabolite, degradant and impurity identification and quantitation
- Synthetic chemistry support
- Intact protein analysis and characterization of biopharmaceuticals
- Forensic and doping control
- Food and water testing
It's a pretty amazing system, and the brochure is worth a read to see how the impact HD solves difficult analytical challenges and delivers results in these diverse applications.Read More
Bruker Biopharmaceuticals VIP Workshop – June 5, Billerica MA
Posted by bruker on May 22, 2014 | 0 comments
We'll be hosting an all-day (9:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.) workshop for lab directors on mass spectrometry approaches in antibodies and recombinant proteins with detailed characterization of biomolecules using high resolution, high accuracy electrospray LC-TOF MS and MALDI-TOF MS.
Time & Date: Thursday, June 5, 2014, 9:30 am – 3:00 pm, Billerica, Massachusetts
Location: Bruker Daltonics Inc., 40 Manning Road, Billerica, MA 01821
To learn more about the event or the key presentations, or to reserve your seat, visit: http://www.bdalevents.com/BioPharmaVIP2014/register.htmlRead More

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Three pitchers combined to hold Greenville to just one run as the Charleston RiverDogs won, 3-1, Thursday night in a South Atlantic League game at Riley Park in front of 4,682 fans.
The RiverDogs (10-8 second half, 49-37 overall), moved into second place in the Southern Division standings. The Drive (11-10, 33-57) fell to third place.
RiverDogs starting pitcher Daniel Camarena (2-3) had an impressive night, allowing one run on five hits and striking out four in six innings to earn his second win of the season.
Charleston got on the board first in the bottom of the second inning. After doubling down the right field line, Dante Bichette, Jr. scored on an Aaron Gates single to left. The RiverDogs later extended that lead to 2-0 as Jake Cave scored on an Angelo Gumbs single.
Greenville scored its only run in the bottom of the sixth inning. Dreily Guerrero hit a ground-rule double and later scored on Jose Vinicio's line drive single to left field.
The RiverDogs added an insurance run in the bottom of the seventh on a Cito Culver two-out triple off the left-field wall that scored Cave.
Ben Paullus pitched a perfect two innings to collect his sixth save of the season.
The first game of a four-game series against the Augusta GreenJackets is Friday at 7:05 p.m. at Riley Park. RHP Cesar Vargas (3-3, 3.11 ERA) will start for Charleston.
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The Purple Pub, 2 Cohoes Road, Watervliet. 273-9646. Variety of family- and party-size combo specials, $19 to $68, available for takeout only.
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I finally have gotten on the Pinterest bandwagon, and let me just say, I'm hooked! Last week we were having friends over for dinner and I wanted to make something new and get away from the foods I always make. I browsed through my cooking magazines and nothing was jumping out at me. Then a lightbulb went off in my head and I thought, I should look on Pinterest! This recipe for Lemon Quinoa Cilantro Chickpea Salad caught my attention. I made it and took photos along the way so that I could share it with all of you. I have to say, it was incredibly tasty and I will definitely be making it again. Plus, it is extremely healthy! If you make this, please let me know what you think. You can follow me on pinterest HERE.
- Ingredients:
- 1/2 C. dry quinoa
- 2 C. vegetable broth
- 1 can garbanzo beans (drained and rinsed)
- 1 c. cherry tomatoes cut in half
- 2 avocados diced
- 2 C. spinach
- 1 bunch cilantro
- 1/4 C. onion
- 2 small cloves garlic
- For the dressing:
- Juice of 2 lemons
- zest of 1 lemon
- 2 tsp. dijon mustard
- 2 tsp. olive oil
- 1 tsp. agave nectar
- 1/2 tsp. cumin
- dash of salt and pepper
I just thought I would show you my new handy dandy onion pot. Supposedly it helps onions stay fresh longer. Stay tuned for another blog post letting you know whether it is a gimmick or not!
3. Add the greens to a bowl, and set aside. Next take your onion and garlic and finely dice those and add to the greens mixture. Next add your chickpeas and stir until everything is combined and coated. If the quinoa is cooled, you can add it to the chickpea mixture next.
4. Make the dressing by whisking all the ingredients together. Pour over salad and mix until combined. Add in tomatoes and avocado and mix. Set in refrigerator for about 10-15 minutes before serving so the flavors set.
This is what it looked like when it was finished. It tasted as good as it looked! The only thing I would change next time would be to cut the amount of cilantro in half. Cilantro is my favorite herb, but there was just too much of it and it overpowered the other flavors. Feel free to pin this on Pinterest for all of your followers to see!


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The mission is "To honor inperpetuity these women, citizens of the United States of America whose contributions to the arts, atheletics, business, education, government, the humanities, philanthropy and science, have been the greatest value for the development of their country."
The website gives an overview of the Hall of Fame as well as listing with biographies of the 195 members. This might be a great way for residents to become familiar with a not-so-famous woman who has made an impact
Facts and figures of women in the United States. Subjects include earnings, education, family, etc.
Under "Cyber Museum," there are resources like a timeline of Women's Suffrage and a quiz. In addition, there's an online tour of the museum that has some great information.
This site has links to articles, timelines, quizzes, crossword puzzles, and other stuff that all deal with Women's History.


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Using canines, police searched for drugs or weapons at Wando High School on Wednesday, resulting in two arrests.
Mount Pleasant police searched the cars in the parking lot on campus, and several vehicles were identified by the canines for closer examination, according to Maj. Stan Gragg.
One student was charged with simple possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia; another student was charged with illegal possession of weapons on school property after knives were found.
The pre-planned search is a common exercise that many schools in the district participate in throughout the school year, according to Charleston County School District spokesman Jason Sakran.
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Congratulations to the Founder Showcase Winner: Mighty Meeting
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MightyMeeting, a cross platform presentation company, won top pitch at the Founder Showcase in Silicon Valley last night by open ballot. Dmitri Tcherevik, CEO of Mighty Meeting, brought the 200 person audience to surprise applause in the middle of the three minute pitch. Dmitri showed the ability of MightMeeting to quickly upload, share and control both a projected and online presentation with a few gestures from an iPhone. See below:
MightyMeeting is a cloud-based service that can be used to manage a private library of presentations in multiple formats. This library can be accessed from a range of mobile devices, such as the iPhone, iPod Touch or Android phones. The presentations are shared through email, blogs, Twitter or Facebook. Users can start, join or control web conferences directly from their own mobile device. The solution is optimized to work over 3G wireless networks and does not require Flash in the browser.
As the Founding Member of TheFunded, I have been using and showing the Mighty Meeting software all day. It converts graphically rich PowerPoint presentations perfectly, which is my gripe with other services. There's no uploading required either, just email presentations to your own address at the domain. It's surprisingly good, and I strongly recommend that you try it. Here's another favorable review from TechCrunch:
MightyMeeting Lets You Conduct PowerPoint Presentations From Your Smartphone
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Mark Suster at the Founder Showcase: Raise Money Now... While You Can
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At our 7th Founder Showcase on Wednesday in San Francisco, Mark Suster, Partner of GRP Partners and Writer of Both Sides of the Table, gave a great Keynote Speech titled "Getting Funded in a Frothy Market."
In the talk he goes on record saying that, "Duh, we're in a bubble," and that entrepreneurs need to get funding now so they can survive the cycle. In normal funding cycles, it can take 3-5 months to raise capital - but in this cycle "it seems like that's the number of days it takes." And, "When the hor dourve tray is passed, take two, and put a third in your pocket... You don't know when it will be back around." He goes on to describe the best methods to raise capital in this "frothy" market, because, "When the party ends, everybody goes home. But that's the most awarding time to be an entrepreneur - provided that you have money."
Some other notable quotes;
- "Nobody at the party likes the sober guy telling everybody how stupid they're being... I don't want to tell you that the party is going to end, but it is."
- "We're in a bubble, and you can quote me on that."
- "The best thing that's happened in our industry is the emergence of micro-VC's, or seed-stage funds. This the best source for most early stage companies."
- "There is no such thing as a "Super Angel." That is marketing BS. You're an angel is if you're investing your own money. You're a VC if you're investing other people's money. VC's have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize value for their investors. As an angel you have a right to have passion projects."
- "It is a myth that you are going to raise $500k and build a billion dollar company. I'm not saying it can't happen, but you can also win the lottery."
- "In the era of social networks, if you can't figure out how to get access to a VC, hang up your cleats now. You don't pass the IQ test."
- "VC's want the 4 Ms: Management, Market, Money (we want to own enough of your company to make a difference), and Momentum."
- "The decreasing number of VC's is a ticking time bomb... or a better analogy: a brick wall."
- "Go get yourself funded... In the last 3 cycles the companies that didn't raise money were not the ones still around to tell the story."
You can watch the full video at the links below:
http://t.co/6bjQVOi on the Founder Institute
http://tcrn.ch/jgLEXc on TechCrunch
The Founder Showcase is hosted by the Founder Institute, which is accepting applications to the Silicon Valley program until next Wednesday, June 22nd. Click here to apply.PRIVATE: Members Only
Complete Set of Founder Friendly Legal Docs
TheFunded.com News
Posted by The Founding Member on 2009-09-29
TheFunded has produced founder-friendly versions of every legal document necessary to launch a new startup. These documents were carefully written from scratch to keep founders in control of the companies that they create.
-- Bylaws
-- Certificate of Incorporation
-- Initial Stockholder Consent
-- Invention Assignment Agreement
-- Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement
-- Indemnification Agreement
-- Initial Board Consent
-- Action by Incorporator
-- Plain Preferred Term Sheet
Please help by sharing these documents with anyone that you know who is launching a startup, and borrow some of the founder protections for your own company from the Certificate of Incorporation.
Enjoy!PRIVATE: Members Only
The Blacklist
TheFunded.com News
Posted by The Founding Member on 2009-03-20
In response to overwhelming Member demand, TheFunded.com has introduced a list of banned investors and added functionality for Members to ban funds. Any banned investor will have their organization and team members removed from all leaderboards on TheFunded.com, though information on the investor will still be available by search with a warning message posted to any readers. Offending investors have already been deleted from this week's top rated VC list.
Investors are added to this 'blacklist' for one of three reasons (1) suspicious review activity, (2) not making new investments, or (3) threatening Members or TheFunded.com with litigation. Funds with suspicious reviews, normally resulting from CEOs being pressured to write positive remarks, will be automatically cleared from the blacklist after 90 to 120 days. Funds marked as not making new investments can be cleared from the list by sending proof of a completed investment in a new portfolio company within the last four weeks. Lastly, any fund threatening legal action will be cleared from the list within 90 to 120 days of the last threat or the lawsuit being dropped.
In these difficult economic times, the stakes are higher for everyone. It is critical to have accurate information available to all parties, from limited partners to entrepreneurs. TheFunded.com asks all 10,786 Members to eliminate investors that do not warrant a place on the leaderboards. Share the information that you have today, and let us really know who is good, who has money, and who has the right intentions. Enjoy!
Members, read the Private section for some simple banning instructions.PRIVATE: Members Only (852 Characters)
The Un Funded
TheFunded.com News
Posted by The Founding Member on 2008-04-07
A few people have contacted TheFunded.com about a new site, TheUnFunded.com. TheFunded.com has no affiliation with the property nor any knowledge of its operations. TheFunded.com does not condone any tool that makes it harder for qualified entrepreneurs to raise growth capital. Venture capitalists rate entrepreneurs each and every day in pitch meetings around the world, and, through this process, the majority of entrepreneurs still find it difficult or impossible to secure necessary growth capital. A number of well-known venture capitalists have proposed the idea of rating entrepreneurs, and they have clearly taken the initiative into their own hands while infringing on TheFunded.com branding and trademarks. This post will be updated as we learn more about the site origin...
Update at 5:00 PM PST: A VC just wrote in to us that his fund was able to apply, get approved, and make a post on TheUnFunded. Supposedly, the system works differently in that a moderator must approve each post before it goes live. VentureBeat is reporting that TheUnFunded is a joke, but it would then be an expensive joke to have a fully functioning ASP back-end (our system is written in Ruby on Rails, BTW). More to come...
Update on April 7: It turns out that TheUnFunded.com is an elaborate April Fool's joke. See the link below:
The good news is that the VC behind the humor of TheUnFunded.com, Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital, has nicely agreed to give the domain name and the technology to TheFunded.com. Ideas are welcome for what to do with the domain. It might make sense, for example, to launch a beginner's guide to getting funding at the domain...PRIVATE: Members Only
Dow Jones
TheFunded.com News
Posted by The Founding Member on 2008-02-03
A number of Members and media organizations have written in about a recent mass mailing by Dow Jones:
TITLE: "Join the funded to see what's really going into term sheets right now"
BODY: "For just $295, you can ensure you end every round of venture financing with the best (and safest) term sheet possible with the new fifth edition of the Venture Capital Deal Terms Report from Dow Jones."
To be clear, this is not a product affiliated with TheFunded.com. It appears to be a marketing initiative by Dow Jones to capitalize on media attention that the new Terms section has received. TheFunded.com does not charge qualified CEOs or Founders any money to join the site. A summary of terms is available for free to all Members, and Members can view detailed term sheets for free if you post terms that you have received since 2006. Apologies if there was any confusion, and enjoy!PRIVATE: Members Only
Superstar Leaderboard
TheFunded.com News
Posted by The Founding Member on 2007-11-10
TheFunded.com has culled through the numerical data to produce a quick leaderboard for the upcoming Superstars of Venture Capital selection on November 15th. This does not include analysis of written feedback. Drumroll, please:
-- Score: 29 - Fred Wilson - Union Square Ventures, Partner
-- Score: 24 - Michael Kim - Rustic Canyon Ventures, Partner
-- Score: 20 - Jim Armstrong - Clearstone Venture Partners, Managing Director
-- Score: 15 - Jed Katz - Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham Ventures, Managing Director
-- Score: 15 - Mike Brown - Foundation Capital, Principal
-- Score: 15 - David Aronoff - IDG Ventures Boston, General Partner
-- Score: 15 - Mark S. Menell - Rustic Canyon Ventures, Partner
-- Score: 14 - Rob Theis - DCM-Doll Capital Management, General Partner
-- Score: 14 - Peter Bell - Highland Capital Partners, Venture Partner
-- Score: 14 - Jonathan A. Flint - Polaris Venture Partners, L.P., Managing General Partner
-- Score: 14 - Nate Redmond - Rustic Canyon Ventures - Partner
-- Score: 13 - Peter Flint - Polaris Venture Partners, L.P., General Partner
-- Score: 10 - Kevin Lalande - Austin Ventures - Principal
-- Score: 10 - Tracy S. Warren - Battelle Ventures, L.P., General Partner
-- Score: 10 - George Zachary - Charles River Ventures, Partner
-- Score: 10 - Brook H. Byers - Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, Partner
-- Score: 10 - Gordie Nye - Prism Venture Partners, General Partner
-- Score: 10 - William D. Porteous - RRE Ventures, General Partner
-- Score: 10 - David Carlick - VantagePoint Venture Partners, Managing Director
-- Score: 9 - Ajay Agarwal - Bain Capital Ventures, Managing Director
-- Score: 9 - Benjamin Nye - Bain Capital Ventures, Managing Director
-- Score: 9 - Bill Tai - Charles River Ventures, Partner
-- Score: 9 - Bill Elkus - Clearstone Venture Partners, Founder and Managing Director
-- Score: 9 - Howard Hartenbaum - Draper Richards, LP, Geneal Partner
-- Score: 9 - Alain Hanover - Navigator Technology Ventures, LLC, CEO/Managing Director
-- Score: 9 - Todd Dagres - Spark Capital, General Partner
-- Score: 9 - Enrique Godreau III - Voyager Capital, Managing Director
Members, read on...PRIVATE: Members Only (410 Characters)
Preparing to Raise a Seed Round? Check Out the Founder Lab Program
TheFunded.com News
Posted by donAdeo on 2015-07-21
We have seen a strong need for coaching in seed-stage companies preparing for funding, and as a result, we created the Founder Lab program earlier this year.
In the Founder Lab, seed-stage companies can make several months of progress in just one vigorous week in Silicon Valley, receiving intensive mentorship and training from the brightest CEOs and investors. By the end of program, you will go home with a fully refined pitch-deck, a validated growth plan, a solid network, and a tactical execution plan to raise funding. Also, there is no equity involved.
If you're interested in learning more about Founder Lab, visit FounderLab.com, or apply today at http://founderlab.com/apply.
The Autumn 2015 Founder Lab will take place from Sunday, September 13th to Friday, September 18th, and there are a very limited number of spots available. If you apply by the Early Application Deadline on Sunday, July 26th, you will have access to the Early Bird Course Fee (20% discount), and you may be eligible for a Course Fee Scholarship.
Now in it's third edition, previous Founder Lab programs have been attended by very fast growing companies, like AMPL Labs, SunToWater, Peerby, Loggr, ConnectX, Cashtivity, Keepe, Theo, Beeketing, MyeTutor.org, Trato, Tourism4me, and many more.
In addition, participants in past programs have had the opportunity to work with and visit some of the top organizations in Silicon Valley, like Google, Twitter, and IDEO - and venture capitalists like Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, K9 Ventures, and more.
Learn more at http://founderlab.com.PRIVATE: Members Only
Join the World's Top Investors and Entrepreneurs at the Founder Showcase on May 12th
TheFunded.com News
Posted by donAdeo on 2015-05-06
The Founder Showcase, TheFunded.com's annual startup event, is coming up on Tuesday, May 12th in Silicon Valley.
At this event, over 400 startup founders and investors will join us to hear from three of technology's leading change agents who are on a crusade to change not only industries, but also the world.
Our speakers include:
In addition, panelists for the event include some of world's top venture capitalists and journalists, including;
This event will sell out, so get your tickets today.
Last Chance to Apply to the Spring 2015 Founder Lab
TheFunded.com News
Posted by donAdeo on 2015-04-15
This Sunday, April 19th is the Final Application Deadline for the Spring 2015 Founder Lab.
The Founder Lab helps top seed-stage startups prepare for funding through an intensive, 10 day program in Silicon Valley. Participating founders will work non-stop with world-renowned entrepreneurs and investors, and leave the program with a fully refined pitch-deck, a plan to grow their KPIs and product, access to a global network of founders and investors, and a tactical strategy to raise funding.
As a bonus, the program culminates at the 16th Founder Showcase, where they can demo their product to more than 400 investors and network with industry professionals.
If you are interested, apply and learn more at http://founderlab.com.PRIVATE: Members Only
See Global Startups Solving Global Problems on This Online Demo Day Event
TheFunded.com News
Posted by donAdeo on 2015-03-17
The Founder Institute is the world's largest entrepreneur training and startup startup launch program, with a portfolio of over 1400 Graduate companies from across 85+ cities and six continents.
This week, the Founder Institute will host its first ever Global Virtual Demo Day to showcase some of the program's top Graduates to an international audience of investors and entrepreneurs, live and online.
This Global Virtual Demo Day will take place on Thursday, March 19th at 6:00pm PT (see local time here), and it is open for anyone to attend.
RSVP to the Demo Day Today!
See Global Startups Solving Global Problems
During the live Global Virtual Demo Day, you can see pitches from top Founder Institute Graduates from four different countries, and three different continents. All presenting companies have already raised a small amount of funding or generated traction, and each is tackling a large, global issue with a huge market; such as satellite delivery, personal health, online security, online journalism, the sharing economy, corporate healthcare, and more. Presenting companies include;
1. Nexercise (http://nexercise.com) is a mobile platform for delivering addictive corporate wellness challenges. $1M+ est. revenue in 2015. $1.3M seed funding, TechStars alum, and DC Founder Institute Graduate.
2. Peerby (http://peerby.com) is neighborhood sharing-economy app, with traction in Europe and an insurance-based revenue model. $2.5M funding, TechStars alum, and Amsterdam Founder Institute Graduate.
3. Tapgenes (http://tapgenes.com) is a family-health service for tracking and understanding your family genealogy health tree. Co-founded by 23andme alum, Blueprint Health alum and Singapore Founder Institute Graduate.
4. ConnectX (http://connectx.com) is launching satellites with storage capacity with the highest level of security. It is the ultimate in high value data storage. Los Angeles Founder Institute Graduate.
5. Logrr (http://logrr.com) is an Identity as a Service platform for enterprises that connects employees to their cloud business applications without using passwords. Montreal Founder Institute Graduate.
RSVP to the Demo Day Today!PRIVATE: Members Only
Pre-Sale Tickets Available for the Founder Showcase: TheFunded.com's International Startup Event
TheFunded.com News
Posted by donAdeo on 2015-03-02
Hosted by TheFunded.com and the Founder Institute, the Founder Showcase is Silicon Valley's leading international seed-stage startup event, gathering global technology founders and investors to hear from top experts, and help launch new companies to greatness.
The 16th edition of the Founder Showcase is scheduled for Tuesday, May 12th at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View.
As the Founder Institute's network has grown, we are now expecting this to be the most international startup event in Silicon Valley, with top founders, investors, and press from six continents in attendance.
Pre-Sale Tickets (up to 50% off) are available until this Friday, March 6th, so get your tickets or table today.
This event will sell out, and tickets are fully-transferable - so what are you waiting for?
If you've never been to a Founder Showcase, here is how it works;
For starters, we get the top figures in Silicon Valley to discuss pressing topics in startups and venture capital. In our 15-event history, we've been truly honored by some of the names who have graced our stage - including Elon Musk, David Sacks, Phil Libin, Keith Rabois, Chris Dixon, Mark Suster, Kevin Rose, and Naval Ravikant, just to name a few. You can check out some awesome videos from past events here.
Second, we have a pitch competition completely geared towards seed-stage companies. How is this different from other pitch competitions? Well, most other events feature companies raising their Series-A, but we go one step earlier, as our presenters are all less than 2 years old and have raised less than $250,000 in funding. In other words, we give you the chance to see some of the most interesting companies of tomorrow before anyone else. Our alumni have gone on to raise over $150 million in funding, and include companies like Udemy, Relay Rides, Thumbtack, Realty Mogul, Kaggle, and many more.
Finally, we have awesome networking with over 400 startup founders, investors and press from all over the world, and an energy brought by our emcee Adeo Ressi that no other event can match.
This all gets mixed into one action packed afternoon and evening, so you can go get back to work building great companies.
We hope you will join us on May 12th!
Get your Pre-Sale Tickets Now, or learn more at www.FounderShowcase.com.PRIVATE: Members Only
The Startup Ecosystem Canvas (How to Map Our Your Local Startup Community)
TheFunded.com News
Posted by donAdeo on 2015-02-23
If you ask a local startup leader what is holding back their community from growing, chances are the answer you will get is "a lack of capital".
But in our experience working in nearly 100 markets across the globe, "lack of capital" is nowhere near being the biggest hindrance to startup community growth.
In fact, in nascent and developing markets, we have seen an influx of government and strategic capital actually hurt the local ecosystem more often than it helps it.
Consider the following sequence of events, which we have seen play out time and time again across several continents;
1. New capital to grow a local startup ecosystem is announced, either by the government or foreign investors. This money needs to be allocated fairly quickly, so investment will go to a select few organizations.
2. Organizations in the local ecosystem immediately begin jockeying for the investment. As a result, these organizations start (1) creating exclusive relationships with others in the ecosystem (these become known colloquially as "tribes"), or (2) vertically integrate (ex. co-working spaces that used to partner with accelerators now create their own accelerators, and those same accelerators start looking for real estate).
3. Almost overnight, a once collaborative ecosystem becomes overly competitive and fragmented.
The biggest losers in this scenario? Local entrepreneurs.
Rather than having access to many different options at each stage of their startup journey, they now become funneled into "walled gardens" of services (or "tribes" of partners). This fragmentation limits optionality, and creates a less inviting environment for new entrepreneurs to start up.
Unfortunately, it doesn't take an influx of capital to create this scenario. As entrepreneurship becomes more "in vogue" and competitive across the globe, we see growing ecosystems become more and more fragmented every day.
The biggest threat to a growing startup ecosystem is not a lack of capital - it is fragmentation and a lack of transparency, because it takes a city to raise a startup.
A Solution: The Startup Ecosystem Canvas
In the must-read book Startup Communities, Brad Feld (Co-Founder of TechStars and Foundry Group) describes the dangers of fragmentation as well. According to Feld, "fragmentation kills local entrepreneurship", and a "philosophy of inclusiveness" is a key pillar of a vibrant startup ecosystem.
Fragmentation can't be fixed overnight, but if you can map out your local ecosystem, then you can immediately make it more transparent and inviting for newcomers. In other words, if you can lower the barrier to entry for new entrepreneurs to join your startup ecosystem, you can ultimately help it grow.
Hence, we developed the Startup Ecosystem Canvas to help startup leaders map their local ecosystem in a framework that makes it more transparent and inviting for new entrepreneurs.
The Canvas is free to use, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Learn more about the Startup Ecosystem Canvas project at the Founder Institute blog.PRIVATE: Members Only
Anyone Can Pitch Onstage at the Founder Showcase (20% Off)
TheFunded.com News
Posted by jonnystartup on 2014-05-07
The 15th Founder Showcase is just a few days away, taking place on Thursday, May 15th in Mountain View. This is TheFunded.com's startup pitch and networking event, where we gather great speakers and investors to help early-stage entrepreneurs.
At this event, anyone who purchases a ticket has an opportunity to pitch on stage in front of hundreds of investors, founders, and press.
That's right. In addition to the six companies who will be competing on stage in the Pitch Competition, all attendees get to participate in the CrowdPitch Competition. All you have to do is purchase a ticket and submit your one-sentence company pitch for a chance to present on stage. No other event offers so much!
Get your tickets before they sell out at http://foundershowcase.com/tickets. Use the code 'friends_of_thefunded' to get a 20% discount.
Confirmed to speak at the event are Mitch Kapor (Founder of Lotus Development, Kapor Capital & Kapor Center for Social Impact, and PC Industry Pioneer), Mike Maples Jr. (Managing Partner at FLOODGATE, and the #14 Top Tech Investor in the world by Forbes), and Thomas Korte (Founder of AngelPad, one of the world's leading startup accelerators).
In addition, investor panelists include Manu Kumar (K9 Ventures), James Cham (Bloomberg Beta), Alex Gurevich (Javelin Venture Partners), Boris Wertz (Version One Ventures), Aydin Senkut (Felicis Ventures), Frank Chen (Andreessen Horowitz), Jeff Richards (GGV Capital), and more.
Guests will mingle over appetizers and drinks in a networking hall, and all attendees get free access to the exclusive Founder Showcase Casino Afterparty at NASA Ames!
We hope you will join us!PRIVATE: Members Only
Join Mitch Kapor, Mike Maples Jr, and Thomas Korte at the Founder Showcase on May 15th
TheFunded.com News
Posted by jonnystartup on 2014-05-07
The Founder Showcase is TheFunded.com's pitch and networking event for seed-stage startups and investors.
On May 15th, we will host the 15th Founder Showcase in Silicon Valley, and welcome an impressive lineup of speakers to our stage;
Mitch Kapor, Founder of Lotus Development & PC Pioneer
Mitch Kapor has been a pioneer in personal computing for more than 30 years. He is widely known as the Founder of Lotus Development. In addition, Mitch was the Founding Investor in UUNET, Co-Founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and a Founding Chair of the Mozilla Foundation, and a Founding Investor and Chair in Linden Research. At the Founder Showcase, Mitch will talk about building technology companies that generate both economic value AND positive social impact.
Mike Maples, Jr., Managing Partner at FLOODGATE
Mike Maples, Jr. is the managing partner of FLOODGATE, and was recently named the #14 Top Tech Investor in the world by Forbes. His early investments include Twitter, Chegg, ng:moco, IMVU, Gowalla, Kno, YuMe Networks, TaskRabbit, Kongregate, BranchOut, and many more. Before his investment career, Mike co-founded Motive, Inc., the world's leading broadband software company in 1997, and oversaw its growth through the "dot-bomb" to a successful IPOs in 2004.
Thomas Korte, Founder of AngelPad
Thomas Korte is the founder of AngelPad, a startup accelerator based in San Francisco and New York. AngelPad was named by MIT's 2014 Accelerator Research as the #3 U.S. Accelerator, and Forbes Magazine called AngelPad a "TOP 5 Global Accelerator" in 2012. AngelPads exits include Mopub ($350m to Twitter), Adku (Groupon), and Astrid (Yahoo), among others. Prior, Thomas worked at Google for 7 years staring in 2002..
We hope you will join us.
Raising a Seed Round? Apply to TheFunded.com's Free Pitch Competition (Deadline is Sunday)
TheFunded.com News
Posted by jonnystartup on 2014-04-24
The Founder Showcase is a 100% free pitch competition hosted by TheFunded.com. While most other similar events feature companies raising their Series-A, we go one step earlier, as our presenters are all less than two years old and have raised less than $250,000 in funding. As a result, we pride ourselves in showcasing early-stage companies before anybody else (pun intended).
Now in its 15th edition, we are proud to announce that previous Founder Showcase Contestants have now raised over $130 million. Past contestants include companies like Udemy, Relay Rides, Thumbtack, Kaggle, and many more. See our Founder Showcase Hall of Fame here.
Are you the founder of an early-stage startup looking to get exposure and funding? Applications to the 15th Founder Showcase are due on Sunday, April 13th. Apply today for free
The 15th Founder Showcase will take place on Thursday, May 15th in Silicon Valley, and gather over 400 startup investors, founders, and press. In addition to the always entertaining pitch competition, the event will feature talks from leading startup entrepreneurs and investors, as well as a series of educational workshops for early-stage founders (TBA). Early-Bird tickets available until April 25th: Click here to purchase yours today.
The Founder Showcase is an event hosted by TheFunded.com and the Founder Institute.PRIVATE: Members Only
Founder Showcase Scheduled for May 15th. Pre Sale Tickets Available Now
TheFunded.com News
Posted by jonnystartup on 2014-02-12
Hosted by TheFunded.com, the Founder Showcase is Silicon Valley's leading seed-stage startup event, gathering top technology founders and investors to hear and learn from leading experts, and help launch promising new companies to greatness.
The 15th edition of the Founder Showcase is scheduled for Thursday, May 15th at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View.
Pre-Sale Tickets (up to 50% off) are available until February 28th, so get your tickets or table today.
If you've never been to a Founder Showcase, here is how it works;
First, we get the top figures in Silicon Valley to discuss pressing topics in startups and venture capital. In our 14-event history, we've been truly honored by some of the names who have graced our stage - including Elon Musk, David Sacks, Phil Libin, Keith Rabois, Chris Dixon, Mark Suster, Kevin Rose, and Naval Ravikant, just to name a few. You can check out some videos from past events here.
Second, we have a 100% free pitch competition completely geared towards seed-stage companies. How is this different from other pitch competitions? Well, most other events feature companies raising their Series-A, but we go one step earlier, as our presenters are all less than 2 years old and have raised less than $250,000 in funding. In other words, we give you the chance to see some of the most interesting companies of tomorrow before anyone else. Our alumni have gone on to raise over $75 million in funding, and include companies like Udemy, Relay Rides, Thumbtack, Kaggle, and many more.
Finally, we have networking with over 400 startup founders, investors and press from all over the world, and an energy brought by our emcee Adeo Ressi (Funding Member of TheFunded.com) that no other event can match.
This all gets mixed into one action packed afternoon and evening, so you can go get back to work building great companies.
We hope you will join us on May 15th!
Get your Pre-Sale Tickets Now, or learn more at www.FounderShowcase.com.PRIVATE: Members Only
How to Wire the Silicon Valley Mindset Into Your Community
TheFunded.com News
Posted by jonnystartup on 2013-11-13
The Founder Institute, which spun out of TheFunded.com, was built with an underlying core belief;
Silicon Valley is not a place. It's a mindset.
In order to help local community leaders wire the Silicon Valley mindset into their communities and plant sustainable seeds for innovation, we recently released an infographic that outlined four steps;
1. Accept Failure
Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley fail more than entrepreneurs anywhere else in the world, but it is their "ability to fail" that helps them ultimately take risks and succeed. When a culture can accept and mitigate the risks of failure — both financially and socially, and through both public policy and social constructs — then entrepreneurship can prosper and true creativity can be unleashed.
2. Embrace Your Geeks
Every community has super-smart people, but in most places, they are dispersed across separate industry circles and rarely interact. Silicon Valley "geek culture" is inclusive, open minded, diverse, and quirky. Why? Because smart people generally share one common trait — they are creative. Implement and encourage creative projects in your community to attract, gather, and support your geek culture.
3. Create Networks of Capital
Yes, Silicon Valley has the brand name VCs, but more importantly it has vast, informal networks of angel investors that pool their money to seed promising projects. AngelList's "Syndicates" is a step toward formalizing these networks, but the more you can tap into, educate, and gather existing networks of wealth around startups, the better your ecosystem will be. In the end, if great companies are built somewhere, the capital will follow.
4. Foster Collaboration
Above all else, Silicon Valley is an amazingly tight-knit and collaborative culture. People of all skill sets, backgrounds, and experiences get together almost nightly here to share ideas, best practices, and metrics, and to provide each other feedback. Why? Because we understand that helping each other and sharing expertise leads to faster iteration, more efficient innovation, faster market growth, and ultimately a larger pie for all.
Entrepreneurs have so much to gain by working together, because ideas don't matter — execution does. Forget the NDAs, and stop creating "competitions." Instead, start creating ways for people to collaborate and share knowledge with the next generation of founders. It will make your community infinitely more successful.
Want to Bring this Mindset to Your Community?
The Founder Institute helps local leaders create sustainable startup ecosystems using these Silicon Valley best practices.
The Founder Institute: 1000 Companies, 10,000 Jobs, $5bn Estimated Portfolio Value. and Growing...
TheFunded.com News
Posted by donAdeo on 2013-11-07
As you may or may not know, the Founder Institute, an entrepreneur training and startup launch program that I founded 4.5 years ago, was born through TheFunded.com. In fact, the inspiration to start the Institute came from observing the struggles of early-stage entrepreneurs on this site, and the original curriculum for the program was actually crowdsourced from TheFunded.com's members.
Today I have some exciting news to share on the state of the Founder Institute. With the recent graduations of the Summer 2013 Semesters, we have just eclipsed 1000 companies launched.
Anthony Ha covered the story on TechCrunch here.
In total, through chapters across 55 cities, 30 countries, and 6 continents, we have now launched 1,003 Graduate Companies with;
- 1,114 Graduate Founders and Co-Founders
- An estimated portfolio value in excess of $5 billion
- Six exits or liquidity events (public exits include Shopalize and Gridblaze)
- Over 10,000 jobs created
- 89.5% Graduate companies still operating (versus 115 companies dissolved)
- 73.5% Graduate companies operating at or ahead of schedule (versus 146 companies with Founders still employed or companies struggling)
But we are not stopping there. In just the last two weeks we launched chapters in Munich and Portland, we are currently accepting applications in over 20 cities, our pipeline is filled with potential new city launches (specifically Dublin, Tokyo, Nairobi, Bangkok, Baltimore, Seoul, Manila, and Tomsk), and we have several semesters currently in session as well.
Our goal?
To "Globalize Silicon Valley" and help promising entrepreneurs launch companies that will create over 20,000 new jobs per year by 2020.
If you want to help foster entrepreneurship on a global scale, then Launch a Founder Institute Chapter in your local city.
Or, if you want to join a growing network of global entrepreneurs and launch an enduring company through structured training courses, practical business-building assignments, and expert feedback from a large network of business mentors, then Apply to the Founder Institute today.PRIVATE: Members Only
BeforeWeDo Wins 14th Founder Showcase with a Mission to Reduce the $16bn STD Burden in the U.S.
TheFunded.com News
Posted by jonnystartup on 2013-08-02
On Wednesday July 17th, BeforeWeDo won the Founder Showcase Pitch Competition in front of 400 investors, founders, and press in Mountain View, CA. Represented onstage by Founder & CEO, Stefan Broda, BeforeWeDo empowers sexually active people to manage your sexual health at home.
Did you know that there are more than 20 million new sexually transmitted infections per year in the U.S. alone, creating a whopping $16 billion annual burden on our health care system?
BeforeWeDo aims to reduce these numbers and curb STDs by making testing less scary. The company offers an online STD resource, personal health web app, and STD testing-kit delivery serivce for you to manage your sexual health at home, removing the embarrasment and hassle of current solutions. Prior to the Showcase, BeforeWeDo also won Bay Area Startup Weekend, Graduated from the Silicon Valley Founder Institute, and was an official partner with San Francisco Pride.
Watch Stefan's flawless pitch, and expert Judging Panel feedback from Manu Kumar (K9 Ventures), Noah Doyle (Javelin Venture Partners), Jon Soberg (Blumberg Capital), James Cham (Bloomberg Beta), and Ho Nam (Altos Ventures), below:
In particular, Stefan received glowing feedback from Noah;
"I admire the capital efficiency. This is the way healthcare businesses need to be built. Through a market-testing, capital-efficient, iterative fashion, rather than the traditional method of multiple rounds of funding before there is any revenue. You are a new model for the modern healthcare plight." - Noah Doyle, Partner at Javelin Venture Partners
Coming in second place as the official runner-up was Friend Trusted, a web and mobile app that helps people shop and compare home improvment estimates. You can see the video of Co-Founder Brenton Marrelli's pitch here.
Other companies who presented on stage at the event included:
- InstaNext: InstaNext Inc provides an enterprise apps platform using a modern approach that makes it possible for large enterprises to stay current with technology.
- Slidefish: Slidefish simplifies the process of getting feedback on presentations and documents, delivering those documents to any browser on device with any OS while letting you measure document engagement.
- Pouch: Pouch is a mobile loyalty & marketing application.
- PriceHub: Don't overpay for your next used car - use PriceHub to research the real price based on what others really paid.
- Knightscope: Knightscope is developing self-driving robots to help organizations reduce costs and fight crime more effectively with automated alerts of suspicious behavior.
- Camperoo: Camperoo makes planning children's activities easier for parents, while giving providers more exposure to parents and campers who have interest in their camps.
For more information on the Founder Showcase, visit http://foundershowcase.com.PRIVATE: Members Only
Anyone Can Pitch Onstage at Wednesday's Founder Showcase (20% Off)
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Posted by donAdeo on 2013-07-15
The 14th Founder Showcase is just hours away, taking place on Wednesday July 17th in Mountain View. This is TheFunded.com's startup pitch and networking event, where we gather great speakers and investors to help early-stage entrepreneurs.
At this event, anyone who purchases a ticket has an opportunity to pitch on stage in front of hundreds of investors, founders, and press.
That's right. In addition to the six companies who will be competing on stage in the Pitch Competition, all attendees get to participate in the CrowdPitch Competition. All you have to do is purchase a ticket and submit your one-sentence company pitch, and then on Tuesday, July 16th we will select one winner, who will get to pitch for 3 minutes onstage to a panel of experts. No other event offers so much!
Get your tickets before they sell out at http://foundershowcase.com/tickets. Use the code 'friends_of_thefunded' to get a 20% discount.
This event will feature a series of practical, "How-To" workshop talks from leading experts designed to help seed-stage entrepreneurs, including;
- "The Six Basic Questions for your Startup", by Phil Libin, Co-Founder & CEO of Evernote
- "How to Create Addictive Products, and the Psychology Behind How Products Form User Habits", by Nir Eyal, Acclaimed Business Writer & Advisor
- "The Founder Matching Workshop: How to Find the Ideal Co-Founder Match", by Joe Abraham, Author and Founder of BOSI Global
In addition, we will have six inspiring companies pitching on stage to a panel of top investors, a demo hall full of other hot startups, and a special casino-themed "Showcase Showdown" Afterparty at NASA! (free for attendees).
We hope you will join us!PRIVATE: Members Only
Just Two Weeks Until the Founder Showcase (20% Off Here)
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Posted by jonnystartup on 2013-07-03
The 14th Founder Showcase is just two weeks away, taking place on Wednesday July 17th in Mountain View. This is TheFunded.com's startup pitch and networking event, where we gather great speakers and investors to help early-stage entrepreneurs.
We are expecting over 400 global startup founders, investors, and press in attendance, so get your tickets today before they sell out at http://foundershowcase.com/tickets. Use the code 'friends_of_thefunded' to get a 20% discount.
This event will feature a series of practical, "How-To" workshop talks from leading experts designed to help seed-stage entrepreneurs. Speakers at the event include;
- Phil Libin, Co-Founder & CEO of Evernote
- Nir Eyal, Acclaimed Business Writer & Advisor
- Joe Abraham, Author and Founder of BOSI Global
In addition, we will have six inspiring companies pitching on stage to a panel of top investors, and a couple dozen more interesting companies showcasing their products in the demo hall. There will be plenty of networking time to meet and socialize with like minded peers and investors. In all, we expect over 400 people in attendance, including over 150 investors.
For more information, visit http://foundershowcase.com.PRIVATE: Members Only
Apply to Pitch at the Founder Showcase (Deadline is Friday)
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Posted by jonnystartup on 2013-06-12
Are you a seed-stage startup looking for funding or exposure?
Then apply to the Founder Showcase, TheFunded.com's free Pitch Competition, where previous presenters have raised over $75 million.
Any company less than two years old with less than $250,000 USD in funding is eligible, but the deadline to apply is Friday, June 14th.
The six finalists will get to pitch at the Founder Showcase on July 17th, in front of hundreds of Silicon Valley investors and press.
Don't miss this opportunity to apply.
For more information, visit http://foundershowcase.com.PRIVATE: Members Only
The Startup Liquidity Crunch - Big Companies are to Blame
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Posted by donAdeo on 2013-06-03
While access to capital, cheap technology, and more have led to the proliferation of many new technology startups, the number of acquisitions has not kept up with the blistering pace. There are many debates as to why, but whatever the cause, the growing popularity of acqui-hires and relative reduction in corporate M&A could lead the startup ecosystem down an ominous path.
Last week I was interviewed by peHUB about this "liquidity crunch", who is to blame, and how it can be fixed. I personally believe that the current startup climate is a house of cards that will collapse if there isn't more corporate M&A.
What do you think? I would love to hear your comments below.
Funding: What's Changed, and What Needs to (By @AdeoRessi)
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Posted by donAdeo on 2013-05-07
Last month, leading up to our Founder Showcase event, I sent out some of my thoughts on the funding landscape to TheFunded.com's mailing list. I received a lot of great feedback, which I incorporated into the editorial below that was published on Women 2.0 last Friday. I would love to hear your thoughts.
Since 2008, I believe there has been more innovation in the field of funding entrepreneurs than in any other short period in history. Recently, I have been asked by many entrepreneurs, investors, and journalists to provide my thoughts on the last five years, and on where we are headed in the future. Here's my opinion.
In 2008, as we watched banks fail and governments hand billions to organizations that ultimately stole value, I believe thousands of people around the world came to the same realization: bankers and politicians had led the world into a dark place, while the passionate entrepreneurs who were building value struggled in the shadows. The time had come to focus and support those that build value.
As a result of this thinking, we have seen a massive amount of innovation.
In the five years since the "Great Recession," the broad field of funding entrepreneurs has changed more than in any other point in human history. There are literally hundreds of changes worthy of discussion, but lets discuss what I believe are the five most important.
Increased Viability of Bootstrapping
Everything a tech entrepreneur needs to build an amazing product or service is now nearly free, eliminating cost as a key barrier to entry for innovation. The free part was born out of the crisis of 2008, when most service providers and technology companies were struggling to stay in business. Everyone from lawyers to hosting companies said to entrepreneurs, "you can sign up and use my service now for free, as long as you agree to pay me later, when you can." Vendors realized that this was not only good for business, but it was also the right thing to do to help fix the economy.
Now, anyone with a dream that is willing to work hard can build a world-class company at a reasonable cost. And, market forces will continue to reduce the costs, both tangible and intangible, that stand in the way.
Shifting Business of Venture Capital
The venture capital market as we once knew it is dead. The vast majority of the people, the language, and even some of the deal terms, are gone. The amount of money and the volume of deals has declined, opening opportunities for new players to enter the market. The venture capitalists who did survive probably don't even recognize themselves in the mirror anymore.
With increased competition, the venture capital industry is becoming increasingly founder-friendly as well. Now, the newest partners being hired into firms typically have recent entrepreneurial experience, and we are seeing increasingly favorable deal terms. New firms are being launched that look at differentiating through analytical investment, like Right Side Capital Management, or through services, like Andreessen Horowitz. Many firms are even starting to look like full-fledged consultancies.
Angels to the Rescue
Angel investing has become significantly easier on both sides of the fence, with standardized terms like convertible equity, and tools like AngelList or Gust. For the first time in the last 20 years, the amount of angel investment dollars has surpassed venture capital. And it's not just a little larger – it's TWICE as large, and maybe more.
I actually believe angels are pouring over $75 billion per year into startups. I also believe angels are funding the "gap" of the "Series-A crunch", significantly reducing the impact that I, and many others, predicted. There are hundreds of promising companies being created now that will only ever raise money from angels, which ultimately means lower fundraising and management overhead, and more incentivized team members. This is undeniably a good thing.
Emergence of Crowdfunding
Governments around the world are loosening rules that govern the funding of private companies, supporting a boom for inexperienced investors to finance companies with small amounts of money. Startups will soon be able to advertise that they are seeking an investment and raise money from anyone.
Obviously crowdfunding still faces a ton of challenges, such as preventing the cheaters, the thieves, and the charlatans from stealing the show. However, I believe those that cite the current shortcomings of the JOBS Act (of which there are many) are being shortsighted. It will be a very, VERY, bumpy road, but the potential for change is absolutely massive.
Rebirth of Incubators and Accelerators
In most developed cities around the world, incubators, accelerators, and other programs are being launched to help founders beat the odds. They come in all shapes and sizes, from office rentals to early-stage investors, offering a mix of training, mentorship, investment and services.
The promise of a return is uncertain, not all of these initiatives are created equal, and many will crash and burn – even by the end of this year. But, I think most people who criticize these programs are overlooking a simple, underlying fact: their motive is to help.
You can certainly argue that there are too many incubators (there are), and you can scrutinize the management, philosophy, and financial sustainability of most programs as well. However, of the hundreds, if not thousands, of incubator and accelerator programs that I've seen, I can probably count on one hand the number of "bad apple" programs that genuinely try to take advantage of entrepreneurs. At the end of the day, these organizations want to help, and I believe it is the right thing for the ecosystem to support any program that wants to help entrepreneurs succeed. Everything else will work itself out naturally.
So Where Do We Go From Here?
The promise for a bright future is now great, but the reality is still harsh. In particular, the lack of sizable liquidity events or exits is very concerning.
To see greatness emerge from all the innovation we have seen these last few years, there needs to be three big changes to our current situation, in my opinion.
First, the terms of acqui-hire deals need to be standardized, and dozens of these deals need to be completed each month, turning bold founders into millionaires.
Second, large companies sitting on billions in cash need to start buying good companies for tens of millions of dollars, and stop trying to copy the innovation spawned by these fledgling startups.
Lastly, there needs to emerge a thriving secondary market for the strongest startups, allowing founders and employees to take money off the table without going public.
The good news is that I know plenty of great, amazingly talented people working on all of these initiatives, so I am confident that the future is bright for funding entrepreneurship.
P.S. To celebrate the launch of the San Francisco Founder Institute (which I am leading), I will be hosting a number of free events in San Francisco to help aspiring founders improve their ideas, perfect their pitch, and find co-founders. The full event schedule is here - I hope to see you there!PRIVATE: Members Only


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Student Government Cooperative Association, Inc. (SGCA). The SGCA is the official student "voice" regarding policies that govern the general welfare of students. Every student attending Cheyney is required to pay a student activities fee that entitles students to full membership in the SGCA. Student activity fees enable the SGCA to initiate and coordinate programs, activities, and services that assist the university in making an impact on students' academic lives and overall development. Each year, activities are provided to enhance students' cultural, social, and political awareness. Recreation and leisure time activities are also provided to give students opportunities to participate in leadership training and personal development seminars.
More than 30 clubs, organizations, and co curricular activities are eligible to be funded through the SGCA. These clubs and organizations have evolved to satisfy the widely diverse interests and needs of students. Co-curricular activities are an important part of each student's education and should be chosen with care. Some broaden one's outlook and interests, while others serve to develop self-assurance and confidence, both socially and professionally. All activities, however, are designed to promote respect for the uniqueness and rights of the individual, as well as respect for opportunities to exercise those rights within a democratic, social setting.
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BANGOR, Maine (NEWS CENTER) A group of University of Maine students took a bold idea to the UMaine System Thursday afternoon. The students are part of a coalition called Divest UMaine. They want the UMaine System to stop investing it's endowment funds into the coal, oil, and natural gas industries.
The students argued that divesting from fossil fuel companies would not only be better for the environment but also for UMaine's Bottom Line. They presented their research on the issue to the UMaine System's investment committee, which held a joint video conference between their offices in Bangor and Portland
"Divestment is a moral issue on many levels," explained student Sabrina Vivian to the committee. "By investing in fossil fuel companies the University of Maine System contributes to the climate crisis and allows this fossil fuel industry to externalize the carbon costs of it's business."
The students urged the Investment Committee to make a recommendation to the Board of Trustees at its May meeting to freeze any new investments in fossil fuel companies immediately and develop a plan for phasing out all investments over the next five years..
The committee said it would be willing to continue having an open dialogue with the students on this proposal. But a number of members expressed concerns about the financial cost of divesting.
UMaine Chancellor, Dr. James Page also had concerns and said that after researching divestment, the committee found the adverse impacts would be too great at this time. He also left the door open for future discussions.
UMaine's endowment fund is approximately $130 million. The System says fossil fuel investments makes up roughly 6.2 percent of the managed investment pool, 4.4 percent of the defined benefit pension plan, and about 2.9 percent of the operating fund.


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Cape Town - Foreign nationals who fled Wallacedene after their shops were looted have not yet moved back.
Last week, angry Wallacedene residents took to the streets in protest over housing issues and some, described as "opportunistic", took their anger out on public property and foreign nationals living in the area.
On Wednesday, about 1 000 residents looted Somali and Chinese shops.
The protest is believed to have been fuelled after about 50 illegal structures were removed from the area by city law enforcement officers.
On Sunday, Mohamed Aden of the Somali Association of SA said most of the foreign nationals were still seeking refuge at the nearby police station and were too afraid to go back.
"We had a meeting on Friday and the police advised the Somali's not to go back until Saturday but they have not yet gone back."
He said they were waiting for the land issue with the locals to be resolved before they moved back.
"It is not easy for them to return after their shops were looted.
"No shops have been opened and most of the property is still damaged."
Many foreign nationals – including Zimbabweans, Congolese and Somalians – spent their weekend on a patch of grass in front of the Kraaifontein police station.
A Somali, who asked not to be named, said he was staying at a friend's home in Brackenfell and would wait for the situation to return to normal before going back.
"Some are still at the police station and some are with friends around the area but no one has moved back."
He said they would meet on Tuesday to decide what their next moved would be.
He said they would meet where there was a police presence.
"It won't be a matter of moving back quickly, it is not easy, people were hurt by this."


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These Australian sheepskin slippers are styled after traditional clogs and offer you a beautiful piece of footwear while keeping you warm on a cold day. Playing against the suede exterior, the color of the sheepskin is brought out beautifully where it spills over from the inside of the slipper. Perfect for men or women, this clog is a great addition to anyone's collection.
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