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Mike Fridgen

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Shamir Karkal

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Ajay Yadav

Kristen Hamilton

Harjinder Sandhu

Richard White

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In this Episode of Startup Project, Nataraj talked to Mike Fridgen, Managing Director at Madrona Venture Labs a Seattle based tech startup incubator. Some of the companies incubated include Style Genome (Acq by Wayfair), Chatitive (Acq by MailChimp), Message Yes (Acq by Nordstrom) &amp; more. Before joining Madrona Venture Labs Mike was part of founding teams at Farecast (Acq by Microsoft) &amp; Decide (Acq by Ebay) where he led product and growth strategies. Full Conversation includes:  Farecast.com (Predicting prices) - Acquired by Microsoft Decide.com (next gen consumer reports) - Acquired by Ebay Through line across being part of multiple acquisitions Incubating companies at Madrona Venture Labs Relationship with Madrona Venture Group Thematic focus behind companies incubated at Madrona Venture Labs  Nataraj is a PM at Azure, partner at NVC &amp; hosts thestartupproject.io podcast. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/natarajsindam. You can also subscribe to his newsletter at getrevue.co/profile/StartupProject--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupproject/message

In this Episode of Startup Project, Nataraj talked to Mike Fridgen, Managing Director at <a href="https://www.madronavl.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Madrona Venture Labs</a> a Seattle based tech startup incubator. Some of the companies incubated include Style Genome (Acq by Wayfair), Chatitive (Acq by MailChimp), Message Yes (Acq by Nordstrom) &amp; <a href="https://www.madronavl.com/companies" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">more</a>. Before joining Madrona Venture Labs Mike was part of founding teams at Farecast (Acq by Microsoft) &amp; Decide (Acq by Ebay) where he led product and growth strategies. Full Conversation includes: <ul> <li><a href="http://Farecast.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Farecast.com</a> (Predicting prices) - Acquired by Microsoft</li> <li><a href="http://Decide.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Decide.com</a> (next gen consumer reports) - Acquired by Ebay</li> <li>Through line across being part of multiple acquisitions</li> <li>Incubating companies at Madrona Venture Labs</li> <li>Relationship with Madrona Venture Group</li> <li>Thematic focus behind companies incubated at Madrona Venture Labs</li> </ul> Nataraj is a PM at Azure, <a href="https://angel.co/s/natarajusa/B8aAA" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">partner at NVC</a> &amp; hosts <a href="https://thestartupproject.io/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">thestartupproject.io</a> podcast. Follow him on Twitter at <a href="https://twitter.com/natarajsindam" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/natarajsindam</a>. You can also subscribe to his newsletter at <a href="https://www.getrevue.co/profile/StartupProject" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">getrevue.co/profile/StartupProject</a>--- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://anchor.fm/startupproject/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://anchor.fm/startupproject/message</a>

#20 Mike Fridgen: Seattle based Startup Incubator Madrona Venture Labs

Leslie Feinzaig

The path to building a company (and getting venture funding) can be varied.  Two of the paths available are Startup Studios or Accelerators.  They each offer different benefits.  Madrona investor, Elisa La Cava sat down with Madrona Venture Labs’ Mike Fridgen and FFA’s Leslie Feinzaig to dig into the differences and the types of companies that benefit from these programs. 

The path to building a company (and getting venture funding) can be varied.  Two of the paths available are Startup Studios or Accelerators.  They each offer different benefits.  Madrona investor, Elisa La Cava sat down with <a href="https://www.madronavl.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Madrona Venture Labs’</a> Mike Fridgen and <a href="https://femalefounders.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FFA</a>’s Leslie Feinzaig to dig into the differences and the types of companies that benefit from these programs.

How are Accelerators and StartUp Labs Different? A conversation with Leslie Feinzaig of Female Founders Alliance  and Mike Fridgen of Madrona Venture Labs