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London Entrepreneur Group Aims to Beat Y Combinator at its Game
Entrepreneur First wants to find the best technical talent across different disciplines to create dream team startups.
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Entrepreneur First, a London-based sparring group for startup companies, seeks to get ahead of its U.S. peers by catching technical talents before they even know what to build or to whom to sell it.
“The idea is to get them before Y Combinator does, so that you don’t only get the second best,” said Philip Wilkinson, a partner mentoring startups in the Entrepreneur First program, referring to the California-based financier which has seen success in early involvement in companies such as Airbnb Inc., Dropbox Inc. and Reddit, Inc.