In this episode, Carol speaks with Steven Hoffman, Founder & CEO of Founders Space, a global startup accelerator. Founded in San Francisco in 2010, Founders Space now has 50 partners worldwide who came to Steve to learn how to build incubators. Steve is a long-time entrepreneur who has founded four startups and found himself being a "go-to" guy for entrepreneurs who wanted to know how to build a startup.

Companies overseas began to look toward Silicon Valley to learn how to build successful startups. They realized that most founders couldn't afford to go to California and stay for three months or more, so Founders Space became a gateway that built shorter, intense, customized programs for these overseas founders. Listen to Steve talk about this and the other startups he founded, where he succeeded and failed, and his challenges in landing institutional capital.

You can learn more about them at foundersspace.com

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