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Back to EpisodesTech accelerators, Disco's first check, and the 500 Startups experience with Marvin Liao, Partner at Diaspora and former GP at 500 Startups
Season 1
Episode 20
Published 3 years, 7 months ago
Description
Marvin Liao, Founder and Partner of Diaspora Ventures and formerly a General Partner at 500 Startups joins the aSaaSins podcast to talk about.
- What are Marvin's assessment criteria for investing in pre-seed and seed stage companies.
- How long after a company joined 500 Startups did he know if a company was going to make it or not, and what differentiated those that made it from those that didn't.
- How the incubator model is changing and evolving, and what this means for the future of seed stage companies going through incubator programs.
- How to improve your odds at getting accepted into an early stage accelerator, and alternative approaches and options founders can take to get support to go from zero to one.