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E1063: The Power of Accelerators E5 Joshua Baer, CEO & Founder of Capital Factory shares lessons from investing in 400+ startups, best practices for transitioning accelerators to remote, insights on SXSW cancellation & more

May 20, 2020

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Southby Can't Do It, Right?

02:06

Is It Going to Be a Double Summer?

02:57

Capital Factory - The Centre of Ity for Ounch Printers in Texas

02:08

Introduction

2min

Capital Factory - The Centre of Ity for Ounch Printers in Texas

2min

What Is Lost When It's Not in Person?

2min

Southby Can't Do It, Right?

2min

Is the Event Insurance Refundable?

2min

Is There a Miracle Cure?

2min

The Importance of Start Up Insurance

4min

The New Model - You Invest and It's All Goes Virtual

4min

What Have You Learned So Far?

2min

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Accelerator Program - I Love That.

2min

11.

Start Ups and Founders Founder Traits

5min

12.

Do You Think We'll See a Resurrection in Entroponor Ship?

2min

13.

Is the Walking Dead Going to Drop Dead?

3min

14.

I Think It's Going to Be a Livit.

2min

15.

Is Remote Work Going to Save Money?

2min

16.

Is It in Face Book's Best Interest to Have Thousands of Employees on Buses for Three Weeks?

2min

17.

What Do You Look for in Companies?

2min

18.

Is It Going to Be a Double Summer?

3min

19.

Pandemic - Is It a Pandemic?

2min

20.

Is There a Perfect Answer?

4min

21.

Howard Lerman - Is He Unstoppable?

2min

22.

Your Number One Investment Is a Cab Dispatching Softwhere

2min

23.

Is There a Better Way to Sell a Product?

2min

24.

What Are the Things That Founders Learn?

3min

25.

What's the Future Look Like for the Global Workforce?

2min

26.

Venture Capital in Austin - What's the Difference?

2min

27.

Is It Better to Live on Lake Austin?

2min

28.

Texas, Texas, Texas - What Do You Think?

2min

29.

Caso, Is It Int Em?

1min

30.

Is South by Southwest a Non Profit?

2min

31.

Capital Factory, a Goldi Lock Zone?

2min

32.

Capitalism for the Wind

20sec

0:35 Jason intros Capital Factory CEO & Founder Josh Baer
1:47 What is Capital Factory in its current iteration? How are they transitioning to remote? Loss of serendipity of random in-person connections
5:38 Josh takes Jason through the SXSW cancellation
10:29 Issues conceptualizing COVID's impact
15:35 Transitioning to rolling cohorts & optimizing their Slack community
21:36 Capital Factory's standard deal terms, why founders join, how returns are divvied up
27:30 Starting Capital Factory during the last economic downturn, how millennials will react to this crisis
30:45 Josh describes his 5 buckets of how companies are weathering the COVID storm
35:09 Remote work's effect on startup collaboration
41:01 COVID's effect on children, getting back to work
47:37 What investing mistakes has Josh made, and how has he learned from them?
56:00 What founder traits does Josh look for?
59:14 Moving to Austin, SXSW history