Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup

Acknowledgments

Our heartfelt thanks to Amy Batchelor, Jil Cohen, and all of the spouses, family, and significant others who put up with the entrepreneurs in their lives.

Our thanks also go out to Ben Casnocha, a TechStars mentor since 2007 and the author of My Startup Life: What a (Very) Young CEO Learned on His Journey Through Silicon Valley. Ben made many wise suggestions about the book that we quickly heeded. And he did it from Chile, around the time of the major earthquake there in early 2010. We are grateful that he is safe.

Our friends and amazing TechStars mentors Michael Zeisser and Paul Berberian both offered significant feedback about the structure of the book that we have incorporated here. We think their input has made the book approachable and interesting, which is something that they both are as well.

We are also grateful to Amy Batchelor, David's mother, Ginger Cohen, and Brad's mother Cecelia Feld for being such sticklers about the English language.

We also want to express our appreciation to David Brown and Congressman Jared Polis for co-founding TechStars with us and for helping to shape what it has become.

We appreciate the tremendous support from Brad's partners at the Foundry Group: Jason Mendelson, Seth Levine, and Ryan McIntyre, as well as Brad's assistant Kelly Collins.

Thanks are also due to past TechStars interns Al Doan, Gregg Alpert, and Cory Levy, who read early drafts of the book and offered candid and useful feedback.

We are very appreciative of the time ...