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E1066: The Power of Accelerators E6 David Brown, CEO & Co-Founder of TechStars on leading the virtual accelerator trend, benefits of going global, sustained vs. temporary changes from COVID & more!

May 27, 2020

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Mentors and Mentors in the Accelerator Stage

02:24

Seed Funds vs Angel Investors

02:13

The Worst Company in Textars

01:46

Introduction

3min

Corona Varserting - Is It a Good Thing?

3min

How Do Accelerators Fare With Fundraising?

3min

Pandamic Global - Is There an Inperson Demo Day?

2min

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

2min

What's Your Best Advice to Founders?

4min

Is It Really Ten?

3min

Are You in the Good Category or in the Loser Category?

2min

Is There an Opportunity for Instacarts and Uberets?

2min

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What's the World Going to Change?

2min

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Higher Education Is Going to Crush Revenues

2min

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How to Manage the Relationship at Text Stars

5min

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I'm So Boring That Nobody Responds to My Tweats, and It Doesn't Really Matter

2min

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The Accelerator Is for Life

2min

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Seed Funds vs Angel Investors

2min

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Mentors and Mentors in the Accelerator Stage

2min

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Why Combinator vs Textars?

2min

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Is It the Right Thing to Scale?

2min

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The Worst Company in Textars

2min

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Don't Be Prescriptive When Fund Raising on Demo Day

2min

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Is It a Game?

3min

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The Pandamic Is a Global Phenomenon

3min

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Is It a Bad Thing?

3min

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What Silken Valley Is Investing In?

2min

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Is It Possible to Go Public?

2min

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Is It a Good Idea?

3min

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Accelerator Hopping - Is It a Good Idea?

2min

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Do You Want to Go to Six?

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Come By. I Hove Yu. Barbicute.

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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?