https://youtu.be/oGJSEC23qzs This is the workshop I often share with early-stage Founders when visiting accelerators like Techstars, Dogpatch etc... It is based on Steve Blanks book and an earlier workshop my former colleague Jens Lapinski gave to one of my cohorts.The workshop gives Founders (and early-stage investors) a common framework to understand where they are on … Continue reading Workshop: How to avoid premature scaling
Discovering the art of Programming, Presenting, Product and Investing
Following on from Week 1 Orientation, this is where we start to introduce the companies to our mentor network. This year we have scheduled 800+ face-to-face mentor meetings over three weeks. Mentoring is so critical to Techstars that our whole accelerator model is ‘mentor-driven’. (I will write more about our Mentor process in a future … Continue reading Behind the scenes at Techstars – Week 2 – Mentor Meetings
One of the most frequent questions I hear from 1st time founders is ‘How do I raise venture capital?’. There are so many smarter people blogging about this (for example Paul Graham, Naval Ravikant, Mark Suster, Brad Feld and Fred Wilson) but I think you can break it down into 2 ways; the 'Data Way' or … Continue reading 2 Ways to Raise Venture Capital
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