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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Techstars comes up
20VC: Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of Memory on What Is Missing In EdTech? What Does The Integration Of AI & Education Look Like & The Core Pillars Of Optimising Memory
20VC: Why Adaptability Is Key To Fundraising, Why Supply Is Always The First Priority In Marketplaces & Why Sometimes You Have To Hire Fast & Fire Fast with Nav Athwal, Founder & CEO @ RealtyShares
- ▶ 14:40 Nav Athwal You know, you have Y Combinator, you have Techstars, you have 500 startups.
20VC: How You Can Learn To Be A Great Business Leader & Why All Successful Business Must Be Loved or Needed with Moisey Uretsky, Founder @ Digital Ocean
- ▶ 0:28 Harry Stebbings And the company's raised a staggering hundred and twenty three million dollars in funding from some of the best investors in the world, including the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Techstars, IA Ventures, Access Industries, and Crunch Fund,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:48 Harry Stebbings Huge thanks to Ari at Textiles for the intro, but really appreciate you taking out the time to join me today.
- ▶ 12:07 Harry Stebbings As altruistic and kind of lovely as that sounds, um, story-like even, uh, kind of with the immense growth and scaling of the team and the business that you have done with DigitalOcean, question from Aria at Techstars is, how do you…
- ▶ 18:33 Moisey Uretsky As far as getting VCs interested, I mean, we give a few talks to tech stars and they say, this is how not to do it unless you're digital ocean, then you can do stupid shit. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:23 Harry Stebbings What a fantastic episode that was with Moisey, and so appreciate him taking the time out to join me today, and again, a huge thanks to Ari Newman and David Cohen at Techstars for making the introduction today, and if you love the show and…
20VC: The Secret To Building Pattern Recognition, Why MBA Does Not Always Equal Great Founder & What Are The Right Reasons To Start A Company With Hardi Meybaum, General Partner @ Matrix Partners
- ▶ 9:30 Hardi Meybaum That was pretty painful, and I came back, and we got into Dexter's incubator, so we had some branding with us, and I would say then things started to change.
20VC: Why Valuation Is A Stupid Concept, VC Is Ripe For Disruption & Not All LPs Are Made Equal with Michael Skok, Founding Partner @ Underscore VC
- ▶ 0:56 Harry Stebbings I'd also like to say a huge thank you to Ty Danko at Techstars for making the introduction today, without which the interview would not have been possible.
20VC: Why Great Founders Are Both Visionary & Stubborn, The Investment Mindset Shift From Angel To VC & How To React When The 'S*** Hits The Fan?' with Jesse Middleton, General Partner @ Flybridge Capital Partners
- ▶ 25:55 Jesse Middleton Uh, the other one that I've more recently started following, it's not really a blog or newsletter, but it's a startup that's actually in tech stars, this disco around called purple.
20VC: How Entrepreneurs Should Manage Their Board & Why Time Constraints Are Always The Key To Progress with Paul Berberian @ Sphero
- ▶ 4:15 Paul Berberian And I spoke to Brad felt and he suggested that I get really involved with tech stars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:30 Paul Berberian So the very first one was CES, which was just a few months after the tech stars program ended.
- ▶ 20:42 Harry Stebbings But then how impactful has Techstars been in your trajectory with Sphero? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:05 Harry Stebbings As I said, I heard such fantastic things about you and Sphero from, from Brad and David and the Techstars crew.
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 15:28 Dave McClure So, you know, people who get into either, you know, 500 or Y Combinator or Techstars or another top program, 4 times in the scene
20VC: Techstars Founder, David Cohen on Scaling Techstars Ventures and Investing In Uber, Twilio and Sendgrid
- ▶ 0:24 Harry Stebbings Now, David is the founder and managing partner at Techstars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:25 Harry Stebbings However, it's now time to meet the one and only David Cohen, founder and managing partner at Techstars. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:30 David Cohen The Techstars Fund. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:47 Harry Stebbings You said Techstars was doing well in the early days there. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:00 David Cohen I was angel investing around the system and before tech stars, you know, even outside the system. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:29 David Cohen And one thing that I really understood was the insight advantage we had at Techstars, you know, some of the early companies that came out of the Techstars ecosystem, you know, the Sendgrids and Spheroes, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:56 David Cohen Yeah, well, you know, we're fortunate, um, at Techstars, you know, today, you know, so we went from that five million dollar fund today, we're over three hundred million dollars in, in managed capital, but, you know, we have a 150 people… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:17 David Cohen I think as tech starts really scaled up, I mean, today we have, you know, 25 accelerators that operate every year. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:37 David Cohen You know, the tech stars funds, you know, perform, you know, return well, uh,
- ▶ 15:08 Harry Stebbings And it's cause I crowdsource questions from your friends and colleagues at tech stars, uh, which I think is insightful.
- ▶ 18:20 David Cohen Techstars, which is a scale, you know, global ecosystem, hands-on approach to it.
- ▶ 19:10 David Cohen Ryan was a mentor in the Techstars Boulder program, and he was mentoring on his drive from the East Coast to the West Coast, so Travis tweeted that he wanted someone to essentially operate UberCab, as it was known at that time, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:12 Harry Stebbings And then finally, your most recent, oh, this is a tough one because it's tech stars. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:48 David Cohen He's on the board of, of the tech stars foundation that we recently launched and that enabled us to build a relationship with them that we think can disrupt, uh, how the supply chain works in the future.
- ▶ 25:12 Harry Stebbings Fantastic to hear David on the incredible scaling journey of tech stars, and such a pleasure to have him on the show today.
20VC: Lowercase's Matt Mazzeo on Being Chris Sacca's Partner and The 3 KPIs to Successful Investing
- ▶ 35:42 Harry Stebbings The 20 minute VC dot com, so you never have to miss an episode or an update from us, and if you haven't had the chance to check out the official SASTA podcast with the godfather of SAS, Jason Lemkin and I, then check out SASTA on iTunes,…
20VC FF 035: Why Crowdfunding Is Not Right For Tech Startups with Ryan Caldbeck @ CircleUp
- ▶ 1:07 Harry Stebbings Backed by tech stars, Wonder Capital allows you to earn 11% annually through investing in their solar funds, and best of all, they take no fees.
- ▶ 24:14 Harry Stebbings And today's episode is supported by the incredible team at Techstars-backed Wonder Capital.
20 VC: David Tisch @ Box Group on The Future of Consumer Mobile, Developing Pattern Recognition and FOMO
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings And prior to Box and Spring, David co-founded Techstars New York City, and was named to New York City Mayor Bloomberg's Advisory Council on Technology, and in today's episode, you'll hear some stats and analysis discussed regarding Box's…
- ▶ 4:04 David Tisch Um, ended up leaving there and joining, uh, Techstars. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:32 Harry Stebbings And then how have you seen the New York venture scene and the startup scene develop over, over the last few years since those Techstars days?
- ▶ 9:23 David Tisch The day I joined Techstars is a day I committed to, to grow Box Group as well. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:35 David Tisch Uh, when, when he joined at Techstars and realizing that we were going to work together for a long time, uh, because we just clicked and, and we understood, uh, sort of what both of our goals were and, and how we were going to work…