Reports of Techstars demise are greatly exaggerated: The program will focus on 30 smaller markets + 4 core cities - & write 100 more checks in 2024 vs 2023 We may need Mary Ann Azevedo / alex 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸🇺🇦 + Equity Podcast to weigh in & keep #panic here from escalating techstars.com/newsroom/techs…

The Techstars staff does an amazing job at supporting us during our time here and after shoutout to Monica Wheat

I pass on a lot of companies where I like some things about the deal but have not reached conviction. I offer to stay in touch. 90% of founders don’t do this (I get it). But the ones that do, I always revisit the decision when they reach out - did I make the right decision,

🤦🏿‍♂️ at all this techstars hate. That program changed my life. I knew nothing about this fundraising/VC game before I got into the program. Got a bunch of terrible advice before it. No program is perfect but they’ve done a lot of good for a lot of founders.

When I was just starting out in venture, a very experienced VC gave me the this advice: "Our best investments are the ones that don't squarely fit our model. They're too high priced, or low ownership, or off thesis, or maybe the founder doesn't reference well. The fact that we

Anyone who has ran payroll realizes that being a CEO isn’t a flex it’s a responsibility

The best MD, shoutout to Monica for how she has supported us through our time with Techstars! Demo Day tomorrow, let’s go

The back of our Techstars Detroit jackets has the logos of all of our companies! Very cool

The care put into our program is top notch, love those folks

this is the most infuriating thing as a vc: the best founder and the worst founder look nearly identical at the idea stage

Is this a top signal

Here's my 3rd (last minute) update for buildspace’s nights & weekends👇 Super exciting news- we got a verbal commitment to be our 4th partner institution for MeetYourClass (Techstars ‘23). I've been using these 6 weeks to really master b2b sales. I've attached a one-pager I worked on this

I’m Kamala Harris, and I’m running for President of the United States.

If you can’t get an early stage investor over the line in a reasonable amount of time, stop trying. Instead, fill the top of the funnel with more qualified investors. There are soo many of them out there. Dig around to find even more!

Shoutout to my Techstars classmates over at Reportwell for raising their $1.1M round ibj.com/articles/india…

I’m hosting an AI founders dinner in September and we actually need more men to keep the ratio even-ish. Gotta love #NYC tech 🔥🔥🔥

The fall fundraising season has officially kicked off. In my opinion, this is the best 10 weeks of the year for startups to raise capital. Investors are fresh from the summer and many are now behind on deployment pace. Founder friends, run at it hard and get the 💰💰💰

Funny when people think I work in finance 🤷🏼‍♀️ Being an early stage VC is much more like being a shrink, football coach or chef than being a finance bro.

Met with a family office LP today and he asked about my ‘breakout’ companies from our 2022 pre-seed fund. I told him: We don’t have any breakouts, our job is to help keep these companies alive until they find P/M fit. The LP seemed shocked. Think he writes me a check? 🤷🏼‍♀️

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