122 Quotes by David Cohen

I think just calling up a VC and saying 'I want to pitch you' is an enormous waste of time.

I wish I had had more mentorship and more access, not only for capital, but the critical thinking.

I think entrepreneurs should demand transparency for startup accelerators.

We've been publishing the TechStars data fully since the beginning on TechStars.com. For every single company, you can see if it's a failure, success, how much they raised. Entrepreneurs deserve that sort of transparency from accelerators, and it's not hard to do.

San Francisco is a great startup community that you shouldn't even try to model yourself after because it's just special.

Twitter needs to become more of a platform on the web. If Twitter went away today, people would just turn to Facebook. If Facebook went away, people would start screaming - it's so universal.

If you're pitching to investors for the first time and expecting them to be so blown away by how thoroughly amazing your pitch is that they write a check on the spot - well, prepare to be disappointed.

Consumers have zero time for products that are not simple, intuitive, and attractive to use. This is especially true with Internet products, where clean and useful design is a prerequisite to keeping anyone on your site for more than 30 seconds.

The Internet is full of choices, and nobody is going to make the choice to use a product that is hard to use or unattractive.