Today we welcome back Brett Brohl, Managing Director of a new accelerator called TechStars Farm to Fork (www.techstars.com/farmtofork). Brett has been traveling the US the last couple of weeks and made a stop in Charlotte to talk with entrepreneurs about raising money and had open office hours to meet with a bunch of different folks.
In this episode, I wanted to explore a few different things with Brett. First, we celebrated Brett’s successful prediction of watching the Patriots lose in the Super Bowl. Second, I wanted to discuss Brett’s experience in Charlotte versus his expectation. We start down this theme, get sidetracked and then end the episode with a 5 minute discussion on his thoughts on the Charlotte startup scene. I also wanted to continue the theme of just learning from Brett about startups and investing.
As such, we hit on the following topics in our discussion:
The 4 key things Brett looks for in a management team.
How can entrepreneurs test for ‘traction’ before launching their product?
As an investor, what do you do when an entrepreneur lets you down during the due diligence process?
And stay tuned for next week’s Charlotte Angel Connection as we start our 1st of two interviews with Greg Brown – Administrator of Charlotte Angel Fund I & II. Fund I just recently closed after investing in excess of $1.5 million in startups and it seemed like a great time to sit down and talk with Greg about a host of things including how far Charlotte has come in the startup world since he started CAF I 5 years ago.
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