Startup investing 101: An Interview with Startup Incubator and Accelerator Founder Space Founder, Steven Hoffman
Money Tree Investing
Money Tree Investing Podcast
4.6 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The Founder of Founder Space, Captain Steve Hoffman, talks with us about how his startup incubator and accelerator helps companies to thrive and how you can improve your chances of success investing in startup companies.
We discuss trends in the start up space, why it is important to look for the exit, why we are in a winner take all world, and how to determine a good deal for investors.
Today's Panelists:
- Kirk Chisholm | Innovative Wealth
- Barbara Friedberg | Barbara Friedberg Personal Finance
- Megan Gorman | The Wealth Intersection
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Money Tree Investing Podcast. Stock market, wealth, personal finance, value stocks, invest in your life. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello, Smart Money Tree podcast listeners. Welcome to this week's show. My name's Kirk Chisholm and I am going to be your host. |
| 0:17.6 | So today we're talking with Steve Hoffman. How's it going, Steve? It's going great, Kirk. I'm glad to be |
| 0:23.8 | here. Good. Well, glad to have you. So we're going to be talking about angel investing today. We've |
| 0:28.7 | gotten a ton of requests for people who want to learn more about angel investing. This is one of those |
| 0:34.3 | spaces you don't hear much about, but I think if people understood it, |
| 0:37.6 | they'd be a lot more interested once they kind of understand how it works. |
| 0:40.8 | So we wanted to bring on Steve to kind of talk a little bit through that and his experience. |
| 0:45.0 | So Steve, when you tell listeners a little bit about your background? |
| 0:47.7 | I am the CEO and chairman of Founder Space, which is an international startup incubator and accelerator. |
| 0:56.2 | We actually have over 52 partners in 22 countries around the world. So we work globally. |
| 1:04.7 | And we help entrepreneurs launch their startups. I am also an investor. So I spend a lot of time looking very |
| 1:13.8 | deeply at startups and making investments. And in addition to that, I train angel investors. |
| 1:20.8 | So I train new investors on how to pick startups, which isn't easy. It's not like picking a public |
| 1:27.0 | stock, which also isn't easy. It's not like picking a public stock, which also isn't easy, |
| 1:29.2 | but it's even harder because the information isn't public and you have to know how to analyze |
| 1:34.5 | these companies. Let's kind of make sure that everyone's on the same page here. You said it's an |
| 1:40.2 | incubator and accelerator. So let's kind of define some of those terms. So when you're talking about an incubator, what does that mean? So founder space brings in early stage |
| 1:50.2 | startups, startups that a lot of times haven't proven out their business model. You know, they might |
| 1:55.9 | have a great team, a great technology. They may have even launched a product, but they're at the |
| 2:00.7 | early stages. |
| 2:01.8 | And what we help them do is figure it out, figure out what to do next, how to overcome obstacles, |
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