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Money. It’s never the answer, but rather an integral step to the success of a startup. For startups going throughTechStars‘ 12-week startup bootcamp, news from the country’s top accelerator just eliminated a huge amount of concern. CEO David Cohen tells us that TechStars has just closed a $24 million round of funding, and each TechStars team will now get an additional $100,000 on top of the previous maximum of $18,000. Previous to this, TechStars had 2 unattributed rounds, for a combined total of $10 million....

For those of you outside of the U.S. or outside of the world of American sports, during “March Madness”, college basketball fans follow the games of 64 teams as they compete in the NCAA Men’s Division Basketball Championship tournament. In a similar fashion, the savvy startup acceleratorTechStarshas launched “StartUp Madness,” to feature 64 under-the-radar startups competing bracket style for a grand prize of over $25,000 in goodies like $12,000 in Rackspace hosting credits and a year ofSendGridPlatinum, worth $4,799....

Imagine you’re sitting fireside in the living room of your professor’s home. He calls out to each of you by name. Not only are there students in the room, students you call friends, but you’re surrounded by alumni and teacher assistants who mentor you along the way. It’s this kind of supportive, family style setting that epitomizes the startup acceleratorTechStars. And this week, TechStars unleashed its first New York City class, a total of 11 startups out into the world....

There’s been a lot going on at theTechStarsoffices over the past few months. With recent graduating classes from NYC,BostonandBoulder, as well as anew TV show on Bloomberg, you’d think that the team would be sitting back and plotting their next moves. But that’s not how the world works for TechStars founder David Cohen. You’ve probably heard by now that TechStars is opening a 5th campus in San Antonio, Texas. This will be in addition to the previous mentions, as well as the Seattle location....

I’m a big fan of lazy, but I’m also a big fan of exercising my cerebral cortex. It’s with these two facts in mind thatTEDchannelTVis exactly the sort of mashup that I love to see. Created bySteve Streza, the lead platform developer forRead It Later, TEDchannelTV takes the TED Talks that are on YouTube and plays them for you endlessly, and randomly. With its full-window display, it also does so beautifully:...