Obsidian Launch
Location: Boonton, NJ
Founded: 2008
Shotput Ventures
Location: Atlanta, GA
Founded: 2009
Summer@Highland
Location: Menlo Park, CA, and Lexington, MA
Founded: 2007
Xconomy coverage:
“Highland Capital Puts Out the Call for Student Entrepreneurs and Interns,” April 3, 2008
“Highland Program Offers No-Strings Stipends to Student Entrepreneurs,” March 3, 2009
“Paragon Lake Out to Dazzle Jewelry Buyers with Virtual Customization,” May 19, 2009
Start@Spark
Location: Boston, MA, and New York, NY
Founded: 2009
“Spark Capital Launches Startup Seed Fund,” March 25, 2009
TechStars
Location: Boulder, CO, and Boston, MA
Founded: 2006
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Xconomy coverage:
“TechStars ‘Entrepreneurship Boot Camp’ Comes to Boston: An Interview with Co-founder David Cohen,” February 17, 2009
“Oneforty Gets Funded,” June 29, 2009
TheFunded Founder Institute
Location: San Francisco, CA
Founded: 2009
Y Combinator
Location: Mountain View, CA
Founded: 2005
Xconomy coverage:
“Y Combinator Gears Up for Startup Summer,” March 10, 2008
“As Y Combinator Prepares to Open Summer Camp, Paul Graham Speaks,” May 3, 2008
“Paul Graham and Y Combinator to Leave Cambridge, Stay in Silicon Valley Year Round,” January 22, 2009
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Author: Wade Roush
Between 2007 and 2014, I was a staff editor for Xconomy in Boston and San Francisco.
Since 2008 I've been writing a weekly opinion/review column called VOX: The Voice of Xperience. (From 2008 to 2013 the column was known as World Wide Wade.)
I've been writing about science and technology professionally since 1994. Before joining Xconomy in 2007, I was a staff member at MIT’s Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, serving as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com. Before that, I was the Boston bureau reporter for Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia.
I have a B.A. in the history of science from Harvard College and a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT. I've published articles in Science, Technology Review, IEEE Spectrum, Encyclopaedia Brittanica, Technology and Culture, Alaska Airlines Magazine, and World Business, and I've been a guest of NPR, CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and the PBS NewsHour. I'm a frequent conference participant and enjoy opportunities to moderate panel discussions and on-stage chats.
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