E1063: The Power of Accelerators E5 Joshua Baer, CEO & Founder of Capital Factory shares lessons from investing in 400+ startups, best practices for transitioning accelerators to remote, insights on SXSW cancellation & more
Publisher |
Jason Calacanis
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Business
Entrepreneurship
Investing
Technology
Publication Date |
May 20, 2020
Episode Duration |
01:11:35
0:35 Jason intros Capital Factory CEO & Founder Josh Baer 1:47 What is Capital Factory in its current iteration? How are they transitioning to remote? Loss of serendipity of random in-person connections 5:38 Josh takes Jason through the SXSW cancellation 10:29 Issues conceptualizing COVID's impact 15:35 Transitioning to rolling cohorts & optimizing their Slack community 21:36 Capital Factory's standard deal terms, why founders join, how returns are divvied up 27:30 Starting Capital Factory during the last economic downturn, how millennials will react to this crisis 30:45 Josh describes his 5 buckets of how companies are weathering the COVID storm 35:09 Remote work's effect on startup collaboration 41:01 COVID's effect on children, getting back to work 47:37 What investing mistakes has Josh made, and how has he learned from them? 56:00 What founder traits does Josh look for? 59:14 Moving to Austin, SXSW history

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