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

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

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4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

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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0:35.7	Hey everybody, welcome to this week in startups. This is our Power of Accelerators series.
0:40.1	It's a series we designed to help founders learn about all the different types of incubators,
0:46.0	accelerators, and startup platforms that are out there. There are many of these around the globe and everybody's got a different spin on it. Some are incubators, some are
0:55.6	pre-revenues, some are pre-products, some are post-revenues, some are more like graduate schools,
1:00.5	other ones are like finishing schools, you get the idea.
1:03.2	At the end, but you tell me which one I am?
1:05.0	I will, I will.
1:06.2	And today, because we're still trying to figure it out.
1:07.8	There are so many names.
1:08.8	There are so many names.
1:10.4	And my guest today, I've known for over a a decade and he was one of the pioneers in Austin, Texas.
1:17.2	We hear about Austin a lot as a center of excellence for startups and a hub.
1:21.9	Well, Josh Bear has been the founder and CEO of Capital Factory
1:26.0	for over a decade, and he's invested in,
1:29.0	how many companies now Josh?
1:31.0	And welcome to the podcast.
1:32.0	Hundreds.
1:33.0	I don't know if I'm quite at 500 yet but got to be getting close.
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