500 Startups

500 Startups is an early-stage venture firm and accelerator founded by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai.

500 Startups is a seed accelerator and related investment fund McClure founded in 2010. The fund admitted a first "class" of twelve startups to its incubator office in Mountain View, California in February, 2011. They expanded to a second class of 21 in June 2011 and a third class of 34 in October 2011.

As of August 1, 2015, 500 Startups had invested in over 1,200 companies like,Tripoto including Punchd, Console.FM, CoContest,Safe Shepherd, Markerly, idreambooks, Fileboard, myGengo, Artsicle, ChinaNetCloud,CucumbertownVisual.ly, E la Carte, Canva,Cleanify,Udemy, 24/7 Techies.ZipMatch, and RidePal. Of current investments, more than 20% have participated in other incubators, 20-30% are international, and over 60 have been acquired. Some of their successful active companies are CreditKarma,Twilio,GrabTaxi,TalkDesk, and Intercom.io. To date, their biggest exits include $403M acquisition of Makerbot by Stratasys, $350M acquisition of Wildfire by Google, $200M acquisition of Viki by Rakuten, and $117M acquisition of Simple by BBVA.

Podcasts:

PLAYLIST TIME:

L'ego

by: Stereotypes

Notice I’m not laugh I mean it was good it’s all mine
Come on ...from the ..
We’re gonna get it pop it to your favorite song
Old play, nice .. I’m on that ass it’s .. b*tch
Participate I need a volunteer, you like magic disappear
Which chick wanna blow
Which, which chick wanna go.
Which chick wanna blow
Which, which chick, let me know.
Top down ..my place ..
Celebration.. let’s pull out ..
It’s three in the morning so we can ..
.. in the clubs let me see that
..for a good time baby I’m a beat that
Looking for a hot .. aha girl ...
I know you hear me holla
You saw me over there spending dollars
That’s why you wanna holla
Let me introduce you to my band.
Lego (hey), lego (hey), lego (hey)
Lego (hey), lego .
Guacamole, ..shoes ...
Overseas first class, my seat go way back
Bungalow .. my floors see through
Just friends benefits, stereotypes in this b*tch.
Which chick wanna blow
Which, which chick wanna go.
Which chick wanna blow
Which, which chick, let me know.
Lights out goes off
Put it down ..
Wake up new day
I take it press play.
It’s three in the morning so we can ..
.. in the clubs let me see that
..for a good time baby I’m a beat that
Looking for a hot .. aha girl ...
I know you hear me holla
You saw me over there spending dollars
That’s why you wanna holla
Let me introduce you to my band.
Lego (hey), lego (hey), lego (hey)
Lego (hey), lego .
Where they at, there they go
Bring them over let em know
Superman may be .. not me .
Rock it .. if you’re coming back ..
Pay nothing it’s all free
Everything at the table ..
Late nights play hard
Super star she need a bodyguard
Quarter back watch me ..
Touch that now don’t ...
It’s three in the morning so we can ..
.. in the clubs let me see that
..for a good time baby I’m a beat that
Looking for a hot .. aha girl ...
I know you hear me holla
You saw me over there spending dollars
That’s why you wanna holla
Let me introduce you to my band.
It’s three in the morning so we can ..
.. in the clubs let me see that
..for a good time baby I’m a beat that
Looking for a hot .. aha girl ...
I know you hear me holla
You saw me over there spending dollars
That’s why you wanna holla




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