Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Several conversations over the last month have turned to the topic of helping entrepreneurs. My suggestion to you as a prospective mentor is to align yourself with a program where there is some thoughtful curation of the matchmaking process that adds needed bias in favor of the best possible pairings. Your choice.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This will be followed by an Investor Week starting March 9, where Techstars Austin will curate meetings with investors from all over the United States. EarBuds (Austin, TX) Jason Fox, CEO EarBuds allows people to listen along LIVE with their favorite music curators in key moments.

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

I want to try to connect relevant entrepreneurs with new investors and help new investors get more qualified deal flow and exposure. This means that the attendees will be highly curated. I’m starting an interview series with new investors — both new VCs and angels.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 1, 2017

Newer VCs, who don’t yet have a lot of deal flow, then eventually fill this void and the cycle repeats itself. B) Moving more conversations to email In addition, I now have gotten comfortable taking more initial conversations with people over email.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

This one comes from personal experience, months into conversations and after reference checks (which went well) one particular VC decided he didn’t have commitment to the space. Lay those cards out on the table at the very beginning of the conversation when you are explaining your thesis. A good CEO is likely a sales person by nature.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 5, 2018

As a lawyer I had been discovering France’s tech ecosystem and deal flow to see how technology commercialization works in France?—?with It turns out that what I was doing all along as a francophone/francophile lawyer building connections across France and Texas, and working to support French startups and connections in the U.S.,

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