DISQUS

VentureBeat: TheFunded Founder Institute tries to tempt investors with a new financing model

  • Anne Field · 5 months ago
    I've observed a wave of new types of business incubators; the Founders Institute is one such effort. But there's also Y Combinator and its ilk, a three-month long program for triple-bottom-line startups in Philadelphia called GoodCompany Ventures, another program for triple-bottom-line companies based at the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill; something called the Hub, which is more of a "co-working" location, among others.

    It's happening at a time when small businesses really need help and they're not getting it from traditional sources of funding.