Do You Think There's a New Model of Accelerator?

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i think there are, you know, probably dozens of tactical decisions like the one i made that are a helping. One of them is a v. And boy, when we did that and we had one or two people maybe, who didn't present a people said the a v was perfect. I just started a rule, and it sounds silly, but in order to present you have to have a computer that's under a year old. You have to have an ether neck cable, not y fi, andyou have to have a plugged in head set from this list of pre approved ones....

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?