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David Cohen: Having too many optimists can kill entire companies
“And I've literally seen it kill entire companies by just being too many optimists, hanging out, spending each other up.”
80% of Techstars accelerator companies raise follow-on funding
“80% of our accelerator companies are going to raise around from somewhere.”
Cohen: First Bullet Time fund had an average pre-money valuation of $2.8M
“So the average pre-money valuation of an investment in my first fund is 2.8 million dollars, which is quite sane.”
David Cohen vows to never invest via uncapped convertible notes again
“I've done one in my life, and I plan to do no more.”
Techstars invests in roughly 500 startups per year
“We're investing in about 500 companies a year at this point across these 50 accelerators that you mentioned.”
Three of Techstars' first ten companies were acquired within a year
“Within a year of the first program in 2007, there were three acquisitions, and they were all relatively small. So out of the first 10 companies, you know, social thing was picked up around ten million dollars and a couple other companies had been bought in tha…”