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Insights from the Most Active Investor in Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

The Deal Flow Session. The model that’s worked consistently is the deal flow session. Deal flow is a specifically targeted, curated, matchmaking session between a problem area for a large, Fortune 100 company and the startup ecosystem. That’s all great in theory,” I told Will.

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TECHSTARS AUSTIN KICKS OFF 2020 MENTORSHIP-DRIVEN ACCELERATOR CLASS, REVEALS 10 SELECTED STARTUPS

Austin Startup

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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The case for investing in innovative online retail businesses

The Equity Kicker

I’m also a fan of focused investment strategies – they allow you to build expertise resulting in better investment decisions and better deal flows as entrepreneurs seek out your expertise. Proprietary product or uniquely curated experiences. Operational excellence. Operational excellence is a given.

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Advice for VCs from a serial founder

Austin Startup

Just as you look at deal flow as a funnel, a good CEO disqualifies and moves on. If you made any promise of any kind to that founder to get into the round and you don’t come through, you just cheated your way into the deal and the founder knows it. Founders are operating at hyper speed. We work 7 days a week.

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Introducing: Ask a New Investor

Hippoland

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. Prior to graduate school, Elizabeth was a strategy & operations consultant at Deloitte Consulting focusing on large healthcare clients.