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ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
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Disclosure
Startupbootcamp FinTech refuses to accept solo founders into its accelerator
“We don't take single founders.”
Disclosure
Startupbootcamp FinTech requires a prototype or MVP to accept startups
“So that's a minimum requirement for us. So we don't go just by PowerPoints and Excel spreadsheets. We need to have a prototype or an MVP of sorts.”
Insight
Effective startup teams require product, sales, and tech leads
“And a team ideally should have at least three different profiles. We have taken teams in that were two founders who put something together, but very quickly you realize that the team needs to grow, and it needs to have somebody who understands the product, som…”
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Liolios predicts crowdfunding aggregator InvestUp will go very far
“One of them is InvestUp, a crowdfunding aggregator. They've just launched, they're a great bunch of guys they are going to go very far.”
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Startupbootcamp FinTech replaced main-stage Demo Day pitches with rotation mini-stages
“So we actually didn't have the startups pitch on stage. We had for each startup a mini stage where they had to pitch five times consecutively and investors in the room had to pick five out of the 10 startups that they really wanted to talk to.”
Disclosure
Liolios has not personally invested in startups since the 2000 dot-com crash
“Personally, actually, I haven't invested in a company since I've burned my fingers in the dot-com area, so era in, in, in 2000, so I will be a disappointment in that.”
Disclosure
Startupbootcamp FinTech does not directly invest capital into participating startups
“So we don't fund startups ourselves. We don't have a fund behind. We don't put any money into the startups.”