The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below).  The He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups. Quilici received a PhD in computer science from Twiistup is just 2 weeks away and there have been a whole slew of announcements within these past few days.  The The speaker list just keeps on growing with some amazing talent

In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. Also, whereas some incubators are geared for usually younger entrepreneurs leaving their jobs to focus full-time on their startups, FI emphasizes founders keeping their day jobs and developing and even launching their products on nights and weekends. Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations.

Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA).  I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions.  This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons .” 8221;