Gregory Raiz, Founder @ Raiz Capital, on His Mission and The Cohort Funding Model, Plus What Makes Successful Founders, and Anti-Demo Day

Plus What Makes Successful Founders, and Anti-Demo Day Subscribe to the Sandhill Markets Newsletter: blog.sandhillmarkets.com/subscribe Gregory Raiz founded Raiz Capital to help early-stage founders in the earliest stages of business formation. Prior to starting Raiz Capital, Greg was the managing director of Techstars Boston where he worked with founders across a broad set of technologies. Before joining Techstars Greg was the founder and CEO of Raizlabs, a four-time Inc. 5000 winner and national leader in developing and designing mobile technology. Greg has led the executive design and engineering efforts on hundreds of products including applications for companies and brands such as AAA, Dunkin Donuts, Verizon, Six Flags, RunKeeper, B&H Photo, Care.com, Costco, LL Bean, Sanofi, HP, GE, Macy’s, and many others. Today on the podcast we discuss: 1. Gregory's Intro/Background (1:47) 2. Bootstrapping Versus Venture (11:59) 3. The Mission of Raiz Capital - What makes it different from an accelerator? (15:49)- Anti-Demo Day (20:25) - How do they look at what companies/founders to work with? (23:10) - How should founders decide amongst the different accelerators and programs? (25:25) -How does scale factor in? (27:58) 4. The Future of Raiz Capital - What are the intentions with the program going forward? (34:20) - What are the early markers of success? What are the long term markers of success? (35:49) 5. Closing Learnings from Anti-Demo Day Events (45:28)