How TechStars Is Launching Startups Across The Country – With David Cohen
Update: I forgot to include this link to TechStars’ results, which David mentioned.
Know who I thought about as I recorded this program? You. You, the ambitious entrepreneur who’s taking risks so big that I bet you can sometimes hear your heart pound. You do it so you can give life to a vision so important that anything less than all you’ve got isn’t worthy of the goal.
Meanwhile, as you work to make just ONE business take off, David Cohen’s TechStars launches THIRTY companies per year, in 3 different cities. And even though TechStars is young, it already has a few big hits.
How does TechStars do it? More importantly, what can learn from the way they do it to grow your business? This interview will answer both of those questions.
David Cohen is the co-founder of TechStars, a mentorship-driven seed stage investment program. Previously, David was a founder of several software and web technology companies. He was the founder and CTO of Pinpoint Technologies which was acquired by ZOLL Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: ZOLL) in 1999. You can read about it in No Vision, All Drive [Amazon]. David was also the founder and CEO of earFeeder.com, a music service which was sold to SonicSwap.com in 2006. He also had what he likes to think of as a “graceful failure” in between.
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