{"id":3865,"date":"2015-07-08T17:56:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T21:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/08\/teddy-dozier-12-startup-launches-at-techcrunch-competition\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:54:01","slug":"teddy-dozier-12-startup-launches-at-techcrunch-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/teddy-dozier-12-startup-launches-at-techcrunch-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Dozier &#8217;12: Startup launches at TechCrunch competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18375\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Teddy-Dozier.JPG.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18375\" class=\"wp-image-18375 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Teddy-Dozier.JPG-medium.png\" alt=\"Image via Teddy Dozier\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/198;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Teddy Dozier<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For those not in the technology industry, Teddy Dozier&#8217;s accomplishments this May\u00a0might not quite resonate. But when it comes to his involvement with <em>TechCrunch<\/em>, an online publisher of tech and industry news reaching 37 million page views per month, it is safe to say Dozier is doing well.<\/p>\n<p>This May, the technology startup he works for as a designer\/developer (<a href=\"https:\/\/selequity.com\/\">Selequity<\/a>) was selected to launch at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/startup-battlefield\/disrupt-ny-2015\/\">TechCrunch Startup Battlefield &#8211; Disrupt\u00a0NY<\/a>. After initially applying, Selequity was one of 24 selected out of 1000 applicants. According to <em>TechCrunch<\/em>, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/startup-battlefield\/about\/\">Startup Battlefield<\/a> is the world&#8217;s preeminent startup competition featuring 15-30 early stage startups pitching top judges in front of a vast live audience&#8230;the winner takes away the Disrupt Cup and a check for $50,000.&#8221; Dozier&#8217;s startup launched live and on stage.<\/p>\n<p>They did not take home the top prize but debuting on this platform is notoriety enough. Selequity is a platform focused on crowdfunding real estate investments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2015\/05\/04\/selequity\/\">Read more of <em>TechCrunch<\/em>&#8216;s coverage on the Selequity launch.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those not in the technology industry, Teddy Dozier&#8217;s accomplishments this May\u00a0might not quite resonate. But when it comes to his involvement with TechCrunch, an online publisher of tech and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-alumni-profiles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}