Growth
Nhu Tran: Quality Education, One Online Class at a Time
“Education is the only way for us to get out of poverty,” Nhu’s father explained repeatedly when dropping her off at school every morning. He did so rain or shine despite having to run all over the city to sell construction equipment after his paint business went bankrupt.
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Tuan Trinh: Zen and the Art of E-Commerce Recommendation
Plummeting three stories and suffering serious injuries to one’s leg, arm, and back could never be considered a positive event, but some people are able to bounce back from such an experience and emerge a better person.
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Mike Villar wants to put romance back into advertising
A battle-hardened marketing veteran, Villar wants you to practice constraint. “Relationships escalate one step at a time. Selling without a story is like asking someone to marry you on a first date,” he told the dozen startup employees going through Saola, an...
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5 things you’ll learn in the 500 Startups’ accelerator program
Written by Poornima Vijayashanker As a founder you might be thinking, “Is a startup accelerator program worth my time? What could I possibly learn from a startup accelerator program that I couldn’t just learn on my own?” I’d say if you have a network filled with...
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You have been accepted into 500 Startups. Now what?
Author – Eugene Vyborov, CTO, YayPay (A 500 Startups Batch 20 Company) Among the 180+ independent accelerators around the world, American programs hold sway and considerable appeal. Getting into a US-based accelerator is a dream for many startups, especially ones that...
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This pitch deck will rock your 500 Startups application
We’ve talked about how to make your application to 500’s accelerator stand out, and one of the key points we mentioned was ensuring you have a solid pitch deck. But what does a good pitch deck look like? We’ve looked at thousands throughout the years, so we have a few...
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Turing helps unlock Vietnam’s tech talent to the rest of the world
“Vietnam is a hub of business process outsourcing along with IT outsourcing. It’s an excellent complement for multinational corporations managing big datasets and looking for data cleansing ahead of software development.” - Forbes Vietnam has emerged with a rising...
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Saola Accelerator: supporting the next “Asian unicorns”
Application is now open! bit.ly/500saola One month after announcing its oversubscribed final close, 500 Startups Vietnam today announced that it will bring 500 Startups’ Silicon Valley accelerator curriculum to Vietnam in 2019 in partnership with Korean multimedia...
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AARRR
Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, Revenue. This is the AARRR (Must Read!) startup metrics model developed by Dave Mcclure. These 5 metrics represent all of the behaviors of our customers. We want to break down these 5 metrics on your product...
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16 Startup Metrics
by Jeff Jordan, Anu Hariharan, Frank Chen, and Preethi Kasireddy. We have the privilege of meeting with thousands of entrepreneurs every year, and in the course of those discussions are presented with all kinds of numbers, measures, and metrics that illustrate the...
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