Do More Faster : Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup

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Pub. Date: 2010-10-19
Publisher(s): Wiley
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Summary

Practical advice from some of today's top early stage investors and entrepreneursTechStars is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator with operations in three U.S. cities. Once a year in each city, it funds about ten Internet startups with a small amount of capital and surrounds them with around fifty top Internet entrepreneurs and investors. Historically, about seventy-five percent of the companies that go through TechStars raise a meaningful amount of angel or venture capital. Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup is a collection of advice that comes from individuals who have passed through, or are pat of, this proven program. Each vignette is an exploration of information often heard during the TechStars program and provides practical insights into early stage entrepreneurship. Contains seven sections, each focusing on a major theme within the TechStars program, including idea and vision, fundraising, legal and structure, and work/life balance Created by two highly regarded experts in the world of early stage investing Essays in each section come from the experienced author team as well as TechStar mentors, entrepreneurs, and founders of companiesWhile you'll ultimately have to make your own decisions about what's right for your business, Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup can get your entrepreneurial endeavor headed in the right direction.

Author Biography

David Cohen is the founder and CEO of TechStars. He previously founded and successfully exited several companies and is now an angel investor in over 100 Internet startups.

BRAD FELD is a managing director of Foundry Group, an early stage venture capital firm. He has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over twenty-five years.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. ix
Prefacep. xiii
About TechStarsp. xv
Idea and Visionp. 1
Trust Me, Your Idea Is Worthlessp. 3
Start With Your Passionp. 7
Look for the Painp. 11
Get Feedback Earlyp. 15
Usage Is Like Oxygen for Ideasp. 19
Forget the Kitchen Sinkp. 23
Find That One Thing They Lovep. 27
Don't Plan. Prototype!p. 29
You Never Need Another Original Ideap. 35
Get It Out Therep. 37
Avoid Tunnel Visionp. 41
Focusp. 45
Iterate Againp. 49
Fail Fastp. 53
Pull the Plug When You Know It's Timep. 57
Peoplep. 61
Don't Go It Alonep. 63
Avoid Co-Founder Conflictp. 67
Hire People Better than Youp. 71
Hire Slowly, Fire Quicklyp. 75
If You Can Quit, You Shouldp. 79
Build a Balanced Teamp. 83
Startups Seek Friendsp. 87
Engage Great Mentorsp. 91
Define Your Culturep. 95
Two Strikes and You Are Outp. 101
Karma Mattersp. 105
Be Open to Randomnessp. 109
Executionp. 113
Do More Fasterp. 115
Assume that You're Wrongp. 119
Make Decisions Quicklyp. 123
It's Just Datap. 127
Use Your Head, then Trust Your Gutp. 129
Progress Equals Validated Learningp. 133
The Plural of Anecdote Is Not Datap. 137
Don't Suck at E-Mailp. 141
Use What's Freep. 145
Be Tiny Until You Shouldn't Bep. 147
Don't Celebrate the Wrong Thingsp. 151
Be Specificp. 157
Learn from Your Failuresp. 159
Quality over Quantityp. 161
Have a Bias Toward Actionp. 165
Do or Do Not, There Is No Tryp. 169
Productp. 171
Don't Wait Until You Are Proud of Your Productp. 173
Find Your Whitespacep. 177
Focus on What Mattersp. 181
Obsess over Metricsp. 183
Avoid Distractionsp. 185
Know Your Customerp. 189
Beware the Big Companiesp. 193
Throw Things Awayp. 197
Pivotp. 201
Fundraisingp. 203
You Don't Have to Raise Moneyp. 205
There's More than One Way to Raise Moneyp. 209
Don't Forget about Bootstrappingp. 213
Beware of Angel Investors Who Aren'tp. 215
Seed Investors Care about Three Thingsp. 219
Practice Like You Playp. 223
If You Want Money, Ask for Advicep. 227
Show, Don't Tellp. 231
Turn the Knife after You Stick It inp. 233
Don't Overoptimize on Valuationsp. 235
Get Help with Your Term Sheetp. 237
Focus on the First One-Thirdp. 241
Legal and Structurep. 243
Form the Company Earlyp. 245
Choose the Right Company Structurep. 249
Default to Delawarep. 253
Lawyers Don't Have to Be Expensivep. 257
Vesting Is Good for Youp. 261
Your Brother-in-Law Is Probably Not the Right Corporate Lawyerp. 265
To 83(b) or Not to 83(b), There Is No Questionp. 269
Work-Life Balancep. 273
Discover Work-Life Balancep. 275
Practice Your Passionp. 279
Follow Your Heartp. 283
Turn Work into Playp. 287
Get Out from behind Your Computerp. 291
Stay Healthyp. 295
Get Away from It Allp. 299
The Evolution of TechStarsp. 303
What Motivated Me to Start TechStars?p. 305
Why TechStars Started in Boulderp. 309
How TechStars Came to Bostonp. 313
How TechStars Came to Seattlep. 317
So You Want to Start TechStars in Your City?p. 321
Appendix: The TechStars Companiesp. 323
About the Authorsp. 329
Acknowledgmentsp. 331
Indexp. 333
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