Accelerate Your Startup In Hawaii, BlueStartups Now Taking Applications For Spring

by Kyle in Accelerator, Everywhere Else, Hawaii, Startup News, Startups
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Blue Startups, Hawaii startups, Hawaii startup acceleartorWho wouldn’t want to accelerate their early stage startup surrounded by blue water, sandy beaches and the tropical paradise that is Hawaii? Well we just heard, by way of our friends at Alohastartups.com, that Blue Startups is now taking applications for it’s Spring 2013 accelerator class.

Blue Startups is a member of the Global Accelerator Network (formerly TechStars accelerator network) and with that you get the standard $20,000 seed investment and $100,000 in services including things like web hosting, $60,000 in Microsoft Azure credits, $12,000 in SoftLayer hosting, $10,000 in PayPal transaction credits, as well as some other great business services that will help your startup.

The spring cohort will run from February 8 through May 9 2013 with Demo Day happening May 10th 2013. Brad Feld will be the keynote speaker at Blue Startups demo day.

Blue Startups features a mentor network of over 50 leading mentors reaching from China, Japan and Silicon Valley.

They will host up to 10 startups in their spring session and have work space available for up to three people per startup team. They will also have one on one meetings with an assigned mentor every week who will help develop the startup and the startup team and follow their progress throughout the session. Other mentor sessions will be available throughout the course of the program.

The early application deadline is December 15th with the final deadline January 15, 2013.

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Learn more about Blue Startups here

Apply for their spring session here

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It’s Tea Time At 500 Startups With Hawaiian Startup Tealet

by Startropica in 500Startups, Accelerator, Everywhere Else, Hawaii, Interviews, Startups
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Tealet,500startups,Hawaiian startup,startup,startups,startup interview, dave mcclureSubscription startups are blowing up these days. It seems there’s a subscription service or subscription box for just about anything (and everything). We’ve reported on, or interviewed, quite a few here at nibletz, including KlutchClub, Bulu Box, FlavrBox and hip hop artist Nas’ subscription startup 12 society.

Today we’ve got Hawaiian startup Tealet. Tealet is about sampling tea just as much as it is about discovering tea. Tealet co-founder Elyse Peterson told us in an interview “Tealet tells the stories of tea growers around the world and allows tea drinkers to explore these teas through a bi-monthly subscription service.”

After the customer gets their tea bi-monthly tea samples they can go back to the tealet website and order larger quantities of the teas they like.

Tealet isn’t about mass produced coffee house teas or even the teas that you can pick up at your local Whole Foods or Trader Joes. Through Peterson’s personal experience, connecting with actual tea growers around the world, Tealet members are getting access to the most interesting and best tasting farm grown teas in the world. Check out the interview below to read how Peterson fell in love with farm grown teas and the farmers who make it.

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