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The rise of digital technologies has eroded boundaries: Anyone can participate, start a business, and reach a global audience.
David Cohen
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Rules designed to ensure competition ensure that innovators with new ideas can challenge incumbents on a level playing field.
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People look up to Techstars because they get funded by Techstars; they go through the accelerator. What we do impacts what they do. What we care about we hope has a meta impact on those entrepreneurs and how they think about the world.
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To have a diverse set of perspectives and backgrounds enables you to understand the market at large much more effectively.
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Meetings with no goal, also known as 'coffee shop' meetings, can be huge time wasters if you're not efficient with them. 'Always know why you're meeting, and make sure it's important - try to keep them to 30 minutes, max.
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Going public is one step in the life cycle of a company; it's not the last step.
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Clearly, there is a gender imbalance when it comes to venture capital and entrepreneurship.
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There are not enough female VCs in an industry so traditionally dominated by males. There are not enough female mentors who are actively engaged with female founders. We need women VCs and entrepreneurs to stand up, get loud, and help guide their peers.
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My attitude is there are at least hundreds of interesting startups that are going to get going in every year.
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I've done a bunch of consulting; I've actually spent time in Singapore, England, Denmark, all over.
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Part of the thing that's magic about TechStars is it's about a community that wants to make itself better.
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We're pretty broad as investors. Our thesis is work with great entrepreneurs that believe they can change the world.
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