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Tom Peters Joins Vint Cerf, Mark Cuban As SparkLabs Advisor

By TechTaffy Desk

Management guru and author Tom Peters has joined SparkLabs’ honorary board of advisors. Other advisors include Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks; Michael Crow, president of Arizona State University; Ray Ozzie, founder & CEO of Talko; and Vint Cerf, vice president & chief Internet evangelist for Google.

SparkLabs is a startup accelerator in Korea. It just hosted its first Demo Day in Seoul, Korea. SparkLabs provides a 3-month long program for seed to early-stage entrepreneurs who want to build global companies.

SparkLabs invests $25,000 in each company, and provides free office space, and mentorship, among other things.

 

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