Do You Want to Go to Six?

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If you're going to go to multipled accelerators, come to launch your text tars last. I have seen people come to us after four or five and i'm like, what's up here? There are some people in the world who have four graduate degrees. And like, oa, that's interesting. You really like being in college. If you're using it as a fund raising mechanism, because you can't und rays any other way than as a prob at, that's what that tells me. When you've been to six couldn't get any of investors. The filling of seats was always a problem i had. But i don't ever want to fire off a...

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?