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David Cohen tells Starto TV about this year's group of Tech Stars Founders and how to improve your chances of getting accepted into the accelerator that's harder to get into than Harvard.
Top Tips from David for getting into Tech Stars:
Do Stuff
It's about lines not dots
It's a relationship not an application
The Starto TV team got a behind-the-scenes tour of the Tech Stars facility and met some of this year's founders. David Cohen sat down with Sandy Grason and Chris Franks to share some wisdom, tips & advice and a few laughs. We talked about:
Some of my favorite quotes from David are:
You learn more from your failures than from your successes, for sure.
A lot of what Tech Stars is doing is teaching companies how to be better entrepreneurs.
Entrepreneurs do stuff and Wantrepreneurs talk about doing stuff.
Entrepreneurs run through walls.
Do what you love.
Starto Shorts: Great Companies are created by great entrepreneurs, this week we talk to Brad Feld & David Cohen about how you create a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem in your community. Brad Feld dropped by the garage to give us a sneak peek at his new book StartUp Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your Community, he explained one of his key ideas called The Boulder Thesis. Brad suggests that taking a long range, 20 year view and staying invested in your community will get you some pretty amazing results.
We also took a trip behind the scenes at Tech Stars, met some of this year's founders and sat down with David Cohen to learn more about what the last six years of working with new start ups has taught him.