Mentors and Mentors in the Accelerator Stage

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You're picking amongst the set of people that you think can generate a return. Being coachable is superimportanty, and sometimes second time ancpener or ochbener have a little chip on their shoulder. A lot of times i find the people who want to be mentors are giving horrible advice,. Here's how you pick a mentor, and here's who's not a good menter. You give them instructions. Unpack it. Ike i'm the mentor like ante. Other alumni may be our mentors to as certain extent, but we don't try to bring a mentors....

0:43 Jason intros TechStars CEO David Brown
4:47 TechStars leading the virtual accelerator trend
10:21 Will TechStars go with a hybrid model going forward and what key points should remote accelerators focus on?
15:27 How did TechStars settle on the number of 10 companies per cohort?
17:28 What has TechStars seen across their portfolio since COVID started?
21:21 Sustained changes vs. temporary changes due to COVID, will COVID lead to more entrepreneurs?
31:58 How to explain edge-case funding scenarios to founders who have real businesses that are having troubling raising capital, taking a long-term view on accelerator engagement, why B2B is easier than B2C
36:22 Why angels invest in one company over the other? Do metrics matter as much as personal relationships? What are ideal founder characteristics that David looks for?
40:25 How TechStars selects mentors by surveying their mentees, comparison against Y Combinator
51:45 Opportunity for going global, David's relationship with Co-Founder David Cohen
1:00:30 Would TechStars ever go public?