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By Andy Sack
I won’t have my post be about TechStars every week because there’s lots of other stuff that’s going on here at Founder’s Co-op that’s exciting and interesting. But there’s no doubt that TechStars is off to a great start and I want to continue to share what’s going on with all of you — TechStars is after all about you.
Funny video on King 5
Great OpenCoffee at Louisa’s this past week — be sure to apply early
We had an applications are open for TechStars Seattle OpenCoffee at Louisa’s last Tuesday. The turn out was excellent. I’m guessing we had about 100 people there and I personally spoke to about 12 teams at various stages of development. I want to encourage all the teams to apply — and apply early because as soon as we receive an application we’ll start looking at it and I’ll try to engage with the entrepreneurs when I can.
One piece of feedback on the event from an attendee
“Excellent event. There’s nothing like walking away from a large company to do your own thing, and having such a supportive community in Seattle helps make it possible. It was great meeting you – look forward to chatting more at another open coffee soon. Thanks again for hosting. ”
By Aaron Franklin
Answers to common questions
- At Louisa’s I found myself answer some questions repeatedly. I figured I’d write some of the answers down.
- Team matters a lot — applying as a single applicant reduces your chance of getting into TechStars and more importantly, of building a successful business.
- Apply early — it helps your application
- Don’t give us a choice of “ideas” — you need to choose what business you’re in
- If you want to learn more about the kinds of company that have gotten into the program previously — goto the website. Actually, I encourage you to poke around the website generally — you’ll get a much better idea for the program. NOTE: TechStars is a .org and not a .com
- Selection is made by a small committee of people….there’s no one decision maker. And at least 2 different people will review every application.
- Videos and visuals help applications a lot!
New Tagline – Seattle’s brewin’
I got this email from David Cohen — the founder and grand poobah of TechStars….
Boulder rocks , I <3 Boston, Seattle _________?
I filled in the blank pretty quickly….Seattle’s brewin’. So — you’ll see that tagline around.
That’s it for now.
