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REMINDER: If you’re looking for a truly inclusive investor, you’ll want to apply for Backstage Capital Accelerator

Rick Turoczy on October 14, 2018

Startups have to juggle a lot. A lot. So picking their battles — or applications as it were — is an important part of deciding how they’re going to spend their time. And in my opinion, if you’re a founder who identifies as a woman, person of color, or LGBTQ, you’d be smart to spend your time applying to the Backstage Capital Accelerator. Because there isn’t a more truly and earnestly inclusive investor and accelerator, local or otherwise.

Category: accelerator, Oregon, Portland, Startups
Tag: accelerator, application, apply, backstage, backstage capital, capital, inclusion, inclusive, investor, Reminder, VC

We’ll still be here waiting backstage, Backstage

Rick Turoczy on October 4, 2018

Well, at least we’re consistent. We never managed to get Google Fiber. Even though we submitted an RFP, we weren’t even really in the running for Amazon HQ2. And now, we just missed being the fourth location for the Backstage Capital Accelerator.

Category: accelerator, Oregon, Portland
Tag: accelerator, Amazon, backstage, capital, detroit, fiber, Google, Google Fiber, hq2, london, los angeles, philadelphia, Portland, Seattle, techstars

What’s better than Backstage Capital launching an accelerator program? The fact that accelerator could be in Portland

Rick Turoczy on September 5, 2018

I’ve been working in, on, and around venture funded startups for the past two decades and then some. And yet, I’ve never quite seen anyone manage to take the traditional myopia of venture capital head on. And win. But then there’s Arlan Hamilton. Who’s doing just that.

Category: accelerator, Oregon, Portland, Startups, VC
Tag: accelerator, Applications, apply, arlan hamilton, backstage, contest, Founders, Portland, VC, venture capital