E1063: The Power of Accelerators E5 Joshua Baer, CEO & Founder of Capital Factory shares lessons from investing in 400+ startups, best practices for transitioning accelerators to remote, insights on SXSW cancellation & more

0:35 Jason intros Capital Factory CEO & Founder Josh Baer

1:47 What is Capital Factory in its current iteration? How are they transitioning to remote? Loss of serendipity of random in-person connections

5:38 Josh takes Jason through the SXSW cancellation

10:29 Issues conceptualizing COVID's impact

15:35 Transitioning to rolling cohorts & optimizing their Slack community

21:36 Capital Factory's standard deal terms, why founders join, how returns are divvied up

27:30 Starting Capital Factory during the last economic downturn, how millennials will react to this crisis

30:45 Josh describes his 5 buckets of how companies are weathering the COVID storm

35:09 Remote work's effect on startup collaboration

41:01 COVID's effect on children, getting back to work

47:37 What investing mistakes has Josh made, and how has he learned from them?

56:00 What founder traits does Josh look for?

59:14 Moving to Austin, SXSW history