EF8 applications are open
Applications for our eighth cohort are open now.
When Alice and I started Entrepreneur First five years ago, there were a lot of things we were unsure about. We had one big idea, though, that remains the core of what we do: we're at a moment in history where starting a startup should be the number one career choice for the most talented and ambitious individuals.
Never before have individuals had so much opportunity to scale their impact through technology. The ability to build new technology that has an impact on hundreds of millions - or even billions - of people's lives is unprecedented.
Entrepreneur First makes it possible for exceptional individuals to have this extraordinary impact. Last month, Twitter acquired Magic Pony Technology, an EF company, for $150m after just 18 months. Rob and Zehan, Magic Pony's founders, were able to achieve a remarkable outcome precisely because they had world-class skills that they applied to a globally important problem.
Rob and Zehan are truly extraordinary individuals - and we're delighted that EF was there with them from the very beginning: they met at EF, developed their idea at EF, found their initial advisors at EF and raised their first round of funding with EF's support. That's the EF model: we back individuals - purely on the basis of their skills, character and ambition, not on the basis of a business idea or existing company.
We provide individual funding from day one and support you to find a world-class co-founder, develop your ideas, receive long-term mentoring from successful entrepreneurs and then raise funding from the world's leading investors.
Every time a new cohort begins, I'm blown away by the quality of the people who are joining - and by what they might build together. EF8 promises to be the best yet. If you'd like to join them, apply now.
Journalist exploring the world's biggest ideas and the people making them happen. Host of Moonshot and The Defrag.
8 年This is such a great program! I love that you're focused on the founders rather then on the ideas - that's absolutely the way most start-up accelerators should work. In the end it's the team that makes an idea a reality (although a good idea certainly helps). - Do you ever accept non-technical founders? And what would a non-tech founder have to prove to make it in?
Sr. Full Stack Engineer @ Desia. Nodejs | TypeScript | React
8 年Congratulations on your success with Magic Pony technologies, as an outsider looking in it looks like you folks have the necessities in place to make founder's vision a reality, on a big scale. I was recommended to checkout ef by another founder, I may have to sit down with him. By the way there's an issue with your ssl cert on your apply now link (you know google's gonna throw that ugly warning message), works ok over http though. All the best!
Expert in Public Sector Technology - equally at home in the real and virtual worlds. Writer, speaker, panel host, finding new and significant solutions.
8 年Needed by me - if there isn't one already - an app or technology that switches a smartphone into a dumb phone when it senses I am information overloaded ( heartbeat / cortisol)