Starve Ups was founded on October 15, 2000 by a group of seven start up companies as a non-profit organization dedicated to helping founders of start ups create successful sustainable businesses via optimized peer mentoring.  In attendance were the founders of what became AssetExchange, CoolerEmail, eROI, Rumblefish, viaLanguage, Versation and wired.MD.

Since the founding all 7 of these companies reached profitability, 6 became multimillion dollar revenue generators, 2 have been acquired for positive investor returns and 1 became an Inc. 500 company.  All 7 companies included 1st time founders of start ups.

A greater explanation is that Starve Ups is an exclusive founders-only group serving idea and early stage entrepreneurs who provide each other their insights, resources and networks at no cost in order to provide peer mentoring at the highest level.  In turn Starve Ups is a virtual incubator and accelerator with its cornerstone as peer mentoring, which is exactly what Starve Ups stands for, excels at and focuses on as a group.

It is simple; the end-to-end educational approach and purpose of Starve Ups is to get each of our membership companies to: 1) survive the first 18 to 36 months, 2) thrive into profitability and expansion, and 3) strive for their positive exit or existence strategy.

Accelerator outperforming YCombinator and TechStars?
-- Innovation Investment Journal

12	years in existence
67	start up member companies to date
57 (85%)	member companies still in business
$291M	in funding raised
652	current total employees
53%	of companies profitable
5.2	avg. yrs. in business
$148M	in annual revenues
$3.8M	avg. annual revenues
6 (9%)	member companies acquired
3	Inc. 500 companies
1	IPO (NASDAQ)

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