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Tak Lo: Every entrepreneur needs a co-founder in life or business
“I have a co-founder in life, and that's, she helped me go through it, and I think everyone needs a co-founder, both either in life or in a startup to be able to talk through some of the things, both in the business, but some of the things that are outside of t…”
Tak Lo: Creative, eager hustlers beat experienced candidates when hiring for startups
“From my perspective if I'm hiring somebody and I see someone who's Who's super eager, hustling and especially very, very creative. I think I would take that over the one, someone who actually has a lot of experience.”
Techstars London backs solo founders including Listable and Osper's Alec Farmer
“I mean, there are some spectacular single founders that, that can do a ton, right? So for example, we backed listable from our last class. They, he was a single founder. Alec Farmer from Osper was also a single founder as well. But they were incredible.”
Startup applicants should build launch pages to prove user acquisition skills
“Try to do a launch page and try to get as many people signed up in over a week that you can, and if you can prove traction with the launch page, you can use that as part of your process and say, look, This is what I could do just with any old launch page. This…”
Tak Lo: Food supply chain will fundamentally change within 20 to 30 years
“I think the food supply chain is, is going to fundamentally change in the next 2030 years.”
Tak Lo: Techstars originated from David Cohen and Brad Feld's open office hours
“Techstars was created actually between David Cohen and Brad Feld's open office hours.”
Tak Lo: Knitwear represents 50% to 60% of the apparel market
“Knitting, knitwear is about 60, 50 or 60% of the entire apparel market”
Techstars startup Knitten took on contracts with Will.i.am to survive
“They took on contracts to try to survive with Will.i.am.”
Tak Lo: Christoph Janz of Point Nine Capital is a top must-read VC blogger
“Chris, Christopher Jans from .9 Capital out in Berlin, I think. Awesome, really great early stage founder, understands the B to B space, but just a really good, again, very insightful investor. Those are the four that I read a lot.”