Forbes.com
Seattle-Based Fledge Hatches 39 ‘Fledglings’
CNBC’s Nightly Business Report
November 5th, 2015
Starts at 12:50
Plus a quick mention on CNBC.com
Emerald City start-ups seeing green
Investors and entrepreneurs in Africa increasingly find each other online. Zambia based startup company Zamgoat recently secured a 20K investment deal from the US based accelerator Fledge, who found them via the online VC4Africa platform. We had a chance to catch up with both the entrepreneur and the investor.
Read the story of entrepreneur Paul Nyambe.
And the story of how Fledge found Zamgoat.
Based in Stockholm, Sweden, UBI Global is a thought leader in performance assessment of business incubators around the world where more than 400 business incubators and accelerators in over 70 countries participate. Through their international benchmark, UBI Global helps business incubators and accelerators become more efficient and competitive. For 2015, UBI benchmarked “Social...
As the sixth session of Fledge nears completion, it’s time to remind the world that the program would not be as useful without all the visitors. In the world of accelerators, we call all these people “mentors”, whether they meet with the team every week or just stop by to share some advice. Having that one single accolade keeps everything simple and egalitarian, but...
Joe Wallin and Michael Schneider, two inquisitive Seattle startup lawyers interview
Fledge founder and Managing Director Luni Libes on “The Law of Startups“.
What is Fledge? What do the fledglings do?
How is Fledge different than the typical accelerators?
Listen here
Fledge begins at minute 21
www.startingupatstartups.com/podcast/startup-roadshow-episode-4-seattle
The B Corp ‘Best for the World List’ sets the gold standard for high impact companies and demonstrates any type of company can use business as a force for good For 2015, Fledge has been honored as “Best for the World” How did we make the list? We earned a score in the top 10% of all Certified B Corporations on the B Impact Assessment, a comprehensive assessment of a company’s...
Fledge6, as in the sixth session of Fledge, the conscious company accelerator. 170 applications from 45 countries arrived. We invite just seven to participate. And this seven are incredibly existing. For the first time ever, the invitees include not only no teams from Seattle, but no American teams at all. Seven startups hailing from five different countries: As always, seven impactful...
After hundreds upon hundreds of applications reviewed by Fledge, there are a series of common patterns that lead to rejections, no doubt frustrating the applicants, and similarly frustrating the screeners. 1. Team, lack thereof The number one criteria that Fledge seeks out is a strong team. If you’ve can’t even convince a friend to call themselves a member of your team, then you are...
The worst part about running Fledge has been turning away the hundreds of entrepreneurs seeking help. For Fledge6 (Spring 2015), this would have been more than 95% of all applicants, over 150 teams including hundreds of entrepreneurs from 45 countries. To fix this problem, Fledge is announcing FledgeX. Our new Autumn program, bringing our full-scale, best-of-breed conscious company accelerator...