October 2010
Beginner
352 pages
6h 11m
English
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Chapter 82. How TechStars Came to Seattle
Andy Sack
Andy is the managing director of TechStars in Seattle, the co-founder of Founders Co-op, and the co-founder of Revenue Loan.
A number of people have asked me the story behind TechStars coming to Seattle. I first contacted David Cohen in January 2008. At the time, I had just started working on Founders Co-op and wanted to speak with David about his experience with TechStars. I thought that TechStars was on to something and I wanted to learn from what David was doing and consider doing something similar in Seattle.
Chris DeVore, my partner at Founder's Co-op and I decided we didn't want to mimic a three-month incubator in Seattle. In our opinion, TechStars was occupying that market space pretty well. I opted to start Founder's Co-op, a mentor-driven seed fund. When I spoke to David on the phone, he was kind enough to share some legal documents with me. Shortly after that call, I became a mentor of TechStars Boulder.
In January 2009, I learned that TechStars was expanding to Boston. I e-mailed David Cohen and Brad Feld and said that if they ever considered expanding to Seattle I would be interested in working with them. David and Brad both encouraged me to spend more time in the summer at TechStars to get to know the program. They said that they were interested in exploring the possibility of working together.
In May 2009, I went to my twentieth ...
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