IDCEE 2013: Techstars - where, what, who - Jon Bradford (Managing Director @ TechStars London)
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http://idcee.org/p/jon-bradford-techstars-london/ Previously Jon was the co-founder and CEO of Springboard. Jon loves to help start-ups and their founders achieve their true potential. Over the last 2 years, Jon acted as an advisor to many other multi-company accelerators from Montreal to Moscow. Since launching Europe’s first bootcamp accelerator in 2009 – The Difference Engine – he helped to launch Springboard now based in Cambridge and London. In addition, he has also founded ignite100, a re-invention of the Difference Engine, that combines a 13 week accelerator with follow on funding of up to £100k per team and Startup Wise Guys in Estonia, Eleven in Bulgaria and TexDrive in Moscow. In a previous life, Jon trained as an accountant with Arthur Andersen, and subsequently has worked in various start-ups and turnarounds. He has worked in London, throughout Europe, Australia and also the United States. Pic's are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idcee/sets/ More @ http://idcee.org Follow us on: YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialIDCEEChannel Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IDCEE Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IDCEE-3940138 Twitter: https://twitter.com/idcee_eu Google+: http://gplus.to/idcee Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/idcee/collections/
Transcript of IDCEE 2013: Techstars - where, what, who - Jon Bradford (Managing Director @ TechStars London)
Techstars
Techstars is a mentorship-driven, seed-stage, investment program
that takes technology-based startups from concept to fledgling
enterprise.
Techstars#DoMoreFaster
Startups fail 95% of the time.
Techstars provides, startups, capital and mentorship in a three month bootcamp. We turn that 95% failure rate into a 90% success rate.
MENTORS MAKE TECHSTARS #1Current Techstars mentors include over 350 actively involved, world-class caliber investors and entrepreneurs from premier organizations including:
INVESTORS:INVESTORS: ENTREPRENEURS:
ENTREPRENEURS:
Our Results
At Techstars, we believe in full transparency and have the numbers to show you why we are rated the #1 Accelerator in the world.
>1%Each year we receive
thousands of applications from teams who want to be in Techstars. We only
accept the best and have a lower acceptance rate than most ivy league
schools.
LOCATIONS•Seattle•Boulder•Boston•New York•Austin•Chicago•London
ONLINE •Twitter reach of over 3 million•http://www.techstars.tv•http://www.bloomberg.com/tv/shows/techstars
•http://www.techstars.com
BOSTONBOSTON
NYC YORKNYC
YORK
BOULDER
BOULDER
AUSTINAUSTIN
LONDONLONDON
CHICAGOCHICAGO
SEATTLE
SEATTLE
Accelerator
TECHSTARS TEAM
BRAD FELD
Co-Founder, Techstars
•Managing Director, Foundry Group
JON BRADFORD
Managing Director, Techstars London
•15 Years of Startup Experience
•Co-founder f6s
DAVID COHEN
Co-Founder and CEO, Techstars
•Founder, CTO Pinpoint (exited)
•50+ Angel Investments
•Author
Some Techstars Facts #1 Accelerator – As ranked by Kauffman/Kellogg report – we do this better than anyone else
Over $320 M raised by TechStars companies
Over 1,300+ jobs created by TechStars companies
Average of $1.6M raised by each company
Experienced – 20 programs completed, directly operated, see the results here, more than anybody else
Over 1,000+ mentors participating in TechStars programs, over 2,000+ investors, 8,000+ companies applying per year
SPECIFIC MENTOR PROSPECTS
TIM ENWALL
CEO of Mobiplug,
Former Founder and
CIO of Tendril
SETH GODIN
Author, Founder of
Squidoo
MATT GALLIGAN
Founder, Circa,SimpleGEO,and SocialThing
HAYLEY BARNA
Co-Founder,
Birchbox
BRAD FELD
Managing Director,
Foundry Group
SPECIFIC MENTOR PROSPECTS
ROB HAYES
Managing Director,
First Round Capital
LARA AUGUST
Founder, Robot Creative
PAUL BERBERIAN
CEO, Orbotixaka Sphero
DAVID COHEN
Founder and CEO,
TechStars
JASON CALACANIS
Founder Mahalo, Open Angel Forum,Launch
SPECIFIC MENTOR PROSPECTS
DICK COSTOLO
COO, Twitter,
Founder, CEO,
Feedburner
DION ALMAER
Founder, Ajaxian, Director Development Tools at Mozilla
ERAN EGOZY
Co-Founder & CTO,
Harmonix Music Systems
JEFF CLAVIER
Founder,
SoftTech VC
DAVID KARP
Founder, Tumblr
