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by seats 12y ago
Right and I don't know the specifics of this situation so I really shouldn't conjecture. Clearly the company didn't feel they had the option to take more time to decide. If that's the case that's on us and we can do
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by seats 12y ago
Wanting to have a quick response is significantly different than using time pressure to influence the outcome. We give companies time to decide if they need it, we just don't give them unlimited time.
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by seats 12y ago
Not evading here, just don't want to go into unnecessary detail, but here it is if you are interested - Our LOI is not a complex document. It's one page long and covers 7 points. 1- agreeing to supply an official version of the ca
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by seats 12y ago
I don't know the methodology of the research but here is the coverage - http://tech.co/top-startup-accelerators-ranked-2012-08
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by seats 12y ago
No worries at all, I don't take it to be antagonistic in any way. I'm hoping to accurately represent how we operate and I'm inviting your questions, so ask away! >> Is Sam Altman involved with TechStars? If not, why is
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by seats 12y ago
Much higher than that.
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by seats 12y ago
Nope. Sam Altman had a great post recently about YC's indictment of timing pressure tactics on accelerator offers. We completely agree with that position and try very hard to not give that impression. Clearly sometimes that pressure is
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by seats 12y ago
Given that I work with our cloud program and in Austin I'm not as intimate with the alumni from Chicago, but one that I am personally fond of is http://www.giveforward.com/ They've crowd-funded over 125 million do
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by seats 12y ago
Im an MD for Techstars in Austin and happy to answer specific questions on this for anyone about our programs and results. I don't know the details of this specific company, so I won't comment on any of those particulars, but I ca
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by seats 12y ago
The quora post is correct (note is a 100k convertible 3 mil - 5 mil cap, 20% discount). It appears that the OP misunderstood the terms.
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by seats 12y ago
Techstars in Chicago is actually less than 2 years old. Excelerate labs was 2 years old at the time it joined Techstars, so the oldest company connected to that city is less than 4. Also important to control for cohort size. These are 10 co
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by seats 12y ago
Specifically on the exit stats GrabCAD (Boston TS company from 2012) was acquired for 100 million - http://betaboston.com/news/2014/09/16/product-design-startup... And the real answer to this is that get
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by seats 12y ago
Agree! I was going to reply to some of Sam's comments, but stopped because this is not at all what Genius was designed for and my reply to his comments wouldn't fit the UX.
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by seats 12y ago
I'm an MD for Techstars and I completely agree. This is the approach we've always taken for the programs that I've run, (Techstars Cloud and the Austin TS program). In several cases, just as a consequence of the calendar, the
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by seats 12y ago
Seems like an odd theory on the heels of three counter examples. Bill Gates didn't create the first OS, Larry and Sergey didn't create the search engine, and Mark Zuckerberg didn't build the first social network.
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Atlas Wearables does activity detection from movement sensors(indiegogo.com)
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Techstars acquires NameLayer(techstars.com)
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by seats 13y ago
I'm replying to this comment on a forum that PG built, so he deserves the courtesy of me being in his house. Also I'll say that he was a phenomenal inspiration to Matt Tanase and me when we started Slicehost. I've learned so much from his w
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by seats 13y ago
car2go is a pretty solid service in Austin. rent by the minute, pick up anywhere drop off anywhere.
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by seats 13y ago
Good feedback, thanks we'll modify. We are using social sign up for applying, but you should have to click through that to just see the application.
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by seats 13y ago
The way that it scales is to not try and spread the 'most high profile mentors' to all cities, but to source effectively orthogonal sets of high value people that support each program. Horizontal vs vertical scaling as dandrewsen mentions.
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by seats 13y ago
It would matter if and when you relocate your startup to another city, or when you need access to a company or resource in another TS city. Differences are still possible while have a one consistent overriding culture, which is our goal. We
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by seats 13y ago
Our strategy is to have local differences and strong independent programs, but we definitely have a cohesive TechStars culture. I've spent time at most of the TS locations in the last 2 years and have invested in several teams from Boston,
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by seats 13y ago
"don't take money unless you need it" is not an unusual bit of advice inside of TechStars either. One of the top companies in the last TS Cloud class is bootstrapped and on fire - http://drifty.com They could have raised tons of money but
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by seats 13y ago
Late to the thread, sorry. Jason Seats here, I'm running the Austin program and ran the last 2 TS Cloud programs. Also co-founded slicehost and helped build Rackspace Cloud. Happy to answer any questions here. Will also hit some of the exis
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SXSW Linux Showdown(trueability.com)
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March 16, USPTO switches from 'first to invent' to 'first to file'(jdsupra.com)
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List of data science and machine learning resources(conductrics.com)
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by seats 14y ago
yup, read the paper
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by seats 14y ago
A well written scraper looks like normal traffic in the same way that a well written pseudo random number generator looks like a random number generator. It'll fool your eye but not statistical analysis. Think about the goal of a scraper, i

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