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" People are starting companies at young ages. They fail fast, learn a lot, and keep going. "

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" There are not enough female VCs in an industry so traditionally dominated by males. There are not enough female mentors who are actively engaged with female founders. We need women VCs and entrepreneurs to stand up, get loud, and help guide their peers. "

" If I had a do over, I'd indubitably start investing in startups earlier in life! "

" Deciding whether or not to bring in an outside CEO is one of the most gut-wrenching decisions that a founder will ever need to make. "

" We've been publishing the TechStars data fully since the beginning on TechStars.com. For every single company, you can see if it's a failure, success, how much they raised. Entrepreneurs deserve that sort of transparency from accelerators, and it's not hard to do. "

" We think of the Techstars product as not really the accelerator but the network. That's what entrepreneurs should be valuing here. I think it's the most undervalued thing that many entrepreneurs don't get. "

" San Francisco is a great startup community that you shouldn't even try to model yourself after because it's just special. "

" You may have a small network, but growing that network has become easier with the use of social tools. LinkedIn, Conspire, even Facebook and Twitter allow you to grab branches that may have previously seemed out of reach. "

" For most people, their home is their most valuable asset. Yet most of us don't take care of it. "

" The hot deal is often the one that does not work. "

" We believe that startups can be built anywhere. "

" In the rare cases where I've had to cut a company loose, I just tell them why and wish them luck and hope they learn something from it. I don't spend more mental energy on it than I have to, and I try very hard not to hold a grudge or try to negatively affect them either. It's just done for me. "

" I think just calling up a VC and saying 'I want to pitch you' is an enormous waste of time. "

" When fundraising, your network is critical. Leveraging it early and often is the key. Don't make the mistake of waiting until you need money to engage sources of capital. "

" In innovation, you're trying to create something from nothing. "

" Ultimately, even if you follow the advice of a mentor or board member, it's still your fault if they were wrong! "

" Twitter needs to become more of a platform on the web. If Twitter went away today, people would just turn to Facebook. If Facebook went away, people would start screaming - it's so universal. "

" To have a diverse set of perspectives and backgrounds enables you to understand the market at large much more effectively. "

" Because one of the main jobs of a CEO is to set the vision and strategy for the company, I'm a big believer in making one of the founders the default CEO. "

" Because Techstars is an intensely productive three-month program in which product development and iteration are primary goals, we're constantly looking to streamline our program to help entrepreneurs avoid recurring obstacles. "

" Every year, it seems to be there are more people right out of college who are willing to jump into a start-up. "

" I think there are ways that perhaps organic partnerships can occur in local geographies with groups that are extremely focused on their communities. That's really how Techstars began, as a grassroots movement in Boulder, Colo., that happened to catch fire and expand around the world. "

" There's no law that says you have to do what your mentor suggests. And the sooner you learn how to say 'no' confidently, the easier it will be to manage these key relationships. "

" I had to quit a 'real job' to start my first company. "

" There is no doubt that Boulder was a supportive and open-door community well before TechStars ever existed. But one of the things that I'm most proud of is that TechStars has provided a real focal point for this sort of activity and has brought attention to just how impactful one community can be when it works together. "

" I'm most proud of helping so many others achieve their dreams as founders. "

" The best mentors present their opinions simply as data and not as direction. "

" I'm often asked what it takes to be 'Series A ready' in terms of metrics, progress, and traction. Unfortunately, there's no easy answer. "

" At TechStars, I have the privilege of working with hundreds of the best and brightest start-up mentors on the planet. We coach our mentors to take a Socratic approach and to provide data rather than decisions. "

" Twilio is a great example of a company executing tremendously well on its vision and delivering a beautiful set of products that solves real problems. "