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Fall 12’ Grad Khisaun Ferguson Shares Advice for Spring 13’ Applicants!
We just wrapped up another great and very successful cycle with 7 amazingly talented founders! With that said applications for Spring 2013 have been rolling in so we are bringing back our Founder Stories! In our Founders Stories a few founders from the previous cycle share their experiences in getting into the NewME program where they had to stand out [...]
Fall 12’ Grad Sharron Battle Shares Advice for Spring 13’ Applicants!
We just wrapped up another great and very successful cycle with 7 amazingly talented founders! With that said applications for Spring 2013 have been rolling in so we are bringing back our Founder Stories! In our Founders Stories a few founders from the previous cycle share their experiences in getting into the NewME program where they had to stand out [...]
Fall 12’ Grad Randy Mitchell Shares Advice for Spring 13’ Applicants
We just wrapped up another great and very successful cycle with 7 amazingly talented founders! With that said applications for Spring 2013 have been rolling in so we are bringing back our Founder Stories! In our Founders Stories a few founders from the previous cycle share their experiences in getting into the NewME program where they had to stand out [...]
PictureMenu Changing the Way People Dine Out
Let’s face it – Americans love to eat out! The average consumer spends approximately $2,500 a year dining out at restaurants according to the United States Department of Labor. NewME Accelerator Spring 2012 graduate, founder Chris Lyons wants to make that dining out experience a great one with PictureMenu. PictureMenu is an iPhone and iPad app that allows users to [...]
Sew Love Wins Big at NewME Miami Pop-Up Demo Day!
We just wrapped up our first three-night Pop-Up accelerator event in Miami last night with a bang! After meeting and working with Miami’s amazing tech entrepreneurs over the past few days we ended with a Demo Day competition and we are happy to announce the winner is an all female owned Miami start-up called Sew Love Sew Love is a platform for [...]
NewME Sp.12 Graduate James Norman Launches Ubi Video
NewME Accelerator Spring 2012 graduate James Norman recently launched his online video start-up Ubi Video! Ubi-Video is an online data-driven video platform that provides users with all of their favorite video content in one place. “I started Ubi Video because myself and a couple other friends were tired of the high price combined poor customer services from our cable providers,” [...]
Andreessen Horowitz and Base Ventures to Attend NewME Accelerator Miami Pop-Up
We recently announced exciting news that we will be hitting the road for our first NewME Pop-Up Accelerator event set to take place in Miami, Fl. Nov. 12 – 14. We are even more excited to announce today Scott Kupor from Andreesseen Horowitz and Erik Moore from Base Ventures will be in attendance! Scott Kupor is a partner and COO [...]
NewME Fall 2012 Demo Day is Approaching!
The Summer/Fall 2012 founders put in the hard work and now it’s time to show it off! 7 founders will pitch at Demo Day on Nov. 1 at Google Startup Lab in Mountain View, CA from 6pm to 9pm PST. Learn more about the founders and the startups pitching! Given : The stress-free, Guess-free, Gift-giving platform. Whoorli: Whoorli is the mobile market place [...]
Mayor Lee Honors Latino Community Leaders & Organizations With Latino Heritage Awards
Mayor Edwin M. Lee recently honored community leaders and organizations in celebration of Latino Heritage Month for their important social, cultural, and economic contributions to the Latino community and City of San Francisco. “As we celebrate Latino Heritage Month, we are reminded of the outstanding accomplishments of these community leaders and organizations and salute their enduring contributions to the Latino [...]
NewME Accelerator Pops-Up in Miami!
NewME is going to MIAMI! Yup, you heard that right. We’re packing up and heading across the country for an exciting first-time NewME Accelerator Pop-Up Nov. 12-14th. The Pop-Up is a concentrated 3-night version of the larger accelerator program we have in the Bay Area and will be launched with the Knight Foundation as the title sponsor and hosted at [...]