How Investors Should Approach Accelerator Alumni With Sean Black, Founding Team @ Trulia

Sean was on the Founding team at Trulia (acq Zillow for $2.5bn), Sean was also the founder and CEO at Sequoia funded, Crunched (acquired by ClearSlide). On the investing side he is an investor at Correlation Ventures and a prominent angel investor in several marketplace companies including SeatGeek, NerdWallet, Zeel, Paintzen, Peach and the home improvement app Smith. In Today's Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Sean made his start angel investing in startups? 2.)How startups can deal with the mass of advice on offer to them today? What makes a great mentor? What should they look for and what should they be wary of? 3.) What are Sean's views on accelerator alumni? How can investors get early access to accelerator companies pre demo day? 4.)What does Sean make of companies attending multiple accelerators? What are the good reasons and what are the bad? 5.) As an angel investor now, how does Tom determine the 'eye of the tiger' within the entrepreneur? Having worked with many at Techstars, what are the commonalities amongst the successful entrepreneurs? Items Mentioned In Today's Show: Sean's Fave Book: Robert Cialdini: Influence Sean's Fave Blog: CB Insights Sean's Most Recent Investment: NerdWallet As always, you can learn more about SyndicateRoom here: www.syndicateroom.com and see Sean's latest tweets here: www.twitter.com/SeanBlack