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Practical advice from some of today's top early stage

investors and entrepreneurs

TechStars is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator with

operations in three U.S. cities. Once a year in each city, it funds

about ten Internet startups with a small amount of capital and

surrounds them with around fifty top Internet entrepreneurs and

investors. Historically, about seventy-five percent of the

companies that go through TechStars raise a meaningful amount of

angel or venture capital. Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to

Accelerate Your Startup is a collection of advice that comes from

individuals who have passed through, or are part of, this proven

program. Each vignette is an exploration of information often heard

during the TechStars program and provides practical insights into

early stage entrepreneurship.

Contains seven sections, each focusing on a major theme within the

TechStars program, including idea and vision, fundraising, legal

and structure, and work/life balance

Created by two highly regarded experts in the world of early

stage investing

Essays in each section come from the experienced author team as

well as TechStar mentors, entrepreneurs, and founders of companies

While you'll ultimately have to make your own decisions about

what's right for your business, Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons

to Accelerate Your Startup can get your entrepreneurial endeavor

headed in the right direction.

From the Inside Flap

It is a cold, hard fact of business life that most startups

fail. Even many of those entrepreneurs who ultimately succeed have

stories of personal challenges, unsuccessful companies, and

difficulties along the way. The founders of TechStars, a

mentorship-driven startup accelerator, have worked with

entrepreneurs and companies over the past twenty-five years, and

have seen a number of the same issues come up again and again.

In Do More Faster, the founders of TechStars identify the key

issues that first-time entrepreneurs encounter, and offer proven

advice from successful entrepreneurs who have worked with the

TechStars program.

The authors organize the most critical issues into seven themes:

Idea and Vision, People, Execution, Product, Fundraising, Legal and

Structure, and Work and Life Balance. Many of the examples are

personal experiences from the entrepreneurs themselves, integrated

into a cohesive narrative—while at the same time able to stand on

their own. Throughout the book, they debunk numerous myths about

startups and reveal some surprising truths. They explain, for

instance, that the core of a startup is not always a world-changing

and earth-shattering idea—in fact, it is often the case that

successful startups started out doing something else. They also

underscore the efficiency of execution: great entrepreneurs know

how to synthesize data, make a decision about the path they are

going down, and execute. And they offer some alternatives to

traditional ways of raising money, while stressing that you

shouldn't start with the assumption that you need to raise

money.

Mastering the seven themes may not ensure success, but

understanding the issues, reading the stories, and getting advice

pertaining to these issues will increase your chances dramatically.

And if nothing else, you'll realize that you aren't alone in facing

these challenges.

Foreword. Preface. About TechStars. Theme 1: Idea and Vision.

Trust Me, Your Idea IsWorthless. StartWith Your Passion. Look for

the Pain. Get Feedback Early. Usage Is Like Oxygen for Ideas.

Forget the Kitchen Sink. Find That One Thing They Love. Don't Plan.

Prototype! You Never Need Another Original Idea. Get It Out There.

Avoid Tunnel Vision. Focus. Iterate Again. Fail Fast. Pull the

PlugWhen You KnowIt's Time. Theme 2: People. Don't Go It Alone.

Avoid Co-Founder Conflict. Hire People Better than You. If You Can

Quit, You Should. Build a Balanced Team. Startups Seek Friends.

Engage Great Mentors. Define Your Culture. Two Strikes and You Are

Out. Karma Matters. Be Open to Randomness. Theme 3: Execution. Do

More Faster. Assume that You'reWrong. Make Decisions Quickly. It's

Just Data. Use Your Head, then Trust Your Gut. Progress Equals

Validated Learning. The Plural of Anecdote Is Not Data. Don't Suck

at E-Mail. UseWhat's Free. Be Tiny Until You Shouldn't Be. Don't

Celebrate theWrong Things. Be Specific. Learn from Your Failures.

Quality over Quantity. Have a Bias Toward Action. Do or Do Not,

There Is No Try. Theme 4: Product. Don"t Wait Until You Are Proud

of Your Product. Find Your Whitespace. Focus on What Matters.

Obsess over Metrics. Avoid Distractions. Know Your Customer. Beware

the Big Companies. Throw Things Away. Pivot. Theme 5: Fundraising.

You Don't Have to Raise Money. There's More than OneWay to Raise

Money. Don't Forget about Bootstrapping. Beware of Angel

InvestorsWho Aren't. Seed Investors Care about Three Things.

Practice Like You Play. If YouWant Money, Ask for Advice. Show,

Don't Tell. Turn the Knife after You Stick It in. Don't

Overoptimize on Valuations. Get Help with Your Term Sheet. Focus on

the First One-Third. Theme 6: Legal and Structure. Form the Company

Early. Choose the Right Company Structure. Default to Delaware.

Lawyers Don't Have to Be Expensive. Vesting Is Good for You. Your

Brother-in-Law Is Probably Not the Right Corporate Lawyer. To 83(b)

or Not to 83(b), There Is No Question. Theme 7: Work-Life Balance.

DiscoverWork-Life Balance. Practice Your Passion. Follow Your

Heart. TurnWork into Play. Get Out from behind Your Computer. Stay

Healthy. Get Away from It All. The Evolution of TechStars. What

Motivated Me to Start TechStars? Why TechStars Started in Boulder.

How TechStars Came to Boston. How TechStars Came to Seattle. So

YouWant to Start TechStars in Your City? Appendix: The TechStars

Companies. About the Authors. Acknowledgments. Index.

David Cohen is the founder and CEO of TechStars. He previously

founded and successfully exited several companies and is now an

angel investor in over 100 Internet startups. BRAD FELD is a

managing director of Foundry Group, an early stage venture capital

firm. He has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over

twenty-five years.

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Practical advice from some of today's top early stage investors and entrepreneurs TechStars is a mentorship-driven startup accelerator with operations in three U.S. cities. Once a year in each city, it funds about ten Internet startups with a small amount of capital and surrounds them with around fifty top Internet entrepreneurs and investors. Historically, about seventy-five percent of the companies that go through TechStars raise a meaningful amount of angel or venture capital. Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup is a collection of advice that comes from individuals who have passed through, or are part of, this proven program. Each vignette is an exploration of information often heard during the TechStars program and provides practical insights into early stage entrepreneurship.

Contains seven sections, each focusing on a major theme within the TechStars program, including idea and vision, fundraising, legal and structure, and work/life balance Created by two highly regarded experts in the world of early stage investing Essays in each section come from the experienced author team as well as TechStar mentors, entrepreneurs, and founders of companies While you'll ultimately have to make your own decisions about what's right for your business, Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup can get your entrepreneurial endeavor headed in the right direction. From the Inside Flap It is a cold, hard fact of business life that most startups fail. Even many of those entrepreneurs who ultimately succeed have stories of personal challenges, unsuccessful companies, and difficulties along the way. The founders of TechStars, a mentorship-driven startup accelerator, have worked with entrepreneurs and companies over the past twenty-five years, and have seen a number of the same issues come up again and again. In Do More Faster, the founders of TechStars identify the key issues that first-time entrepreneurs encounter, and offer proven advice from successful entrepreneurs who have worked with the TechStars program. The authors organize the most critical issues into seven themes: Idea and Vision, People, Execution, Product, Fundraising, Legal and Structure, and Work and Life Balance. Many of the examples are personal experiences from the entrepreneurs themselves, integrated into a cohesive narrative—while at the same time able to stand on their own. Throughout the book, they debunk numerous myths about startups and reveal some surprising truths. They explain, for instance, that the core of a startup is not always a world-changing and earth-shattering idea—in fact, it is often the case that successful startups started out doing something else. They also underscore the efficiency of execution: great entrepreneurs know how to synthesize data, make a decision about the path they are going down, and execute. And they offer some alternatives to traditional ways of raising money, while stressing that you shouldn't start with the assumption that you need to raise money. Mastering the seven themes may not ensure success, but understanding the issues, reading the stories, and getting advice pertaining to these issues will increase your chances dramatically. And if nothing else, you'll realize that you aren't alone in facing these challenges.