David Cohen is the founder and CEO of TechStars, a mentorship-driven seed stage investment program for Internet startups. He has invested in over 200 internet startups, and helped more than 20 achive successful exits. David has helped his portfolio companies raise over $325M in capital thus far.

Previously, David was a founder of several software and web technology companies. He was the founder and CTO of Pinpoint Technologies which was acquired by ZOLL Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: ZOLL) in 1999. You can read about it in No Vision, All Drive [Amazon]. David was also the founder and CEO of earFeeder.com, a music service which was sold to SonicSwap.com in 2006. He also had what he likes to think of as a “graceful failure” in between.

David is a active startup advocate, advisor, board member, and technology advisor who comments on these topics on his blog at DavidGCohen.com.

David co-authored Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup with Brad Feld.

You can find David on Twitter @davidcohen.

David Cohen

Founder and CEO at TechStars

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