Techstars Seattle has a brand new chief: Marius Ciocirlan.
The serial entrepreneur and advisor will head up the longstanding Seattle-based accelerator, changing Isaac Kato, who stepped down this 12 months.
Ciocirlan co-founded ShareGrid, a market for filmmakers and photographers to hire and promote their gear. The Seattle startup was acquired by Backstage final 12 months.
He was additionally a product designer for Groupon, Kromatic Leisure, and Samsung.
Ciocirlan stated he likes mentoring different entrepreneurs, serving to them be taught from his personal expertise.
“I’ve actually loved being an advisor and the Techstars managing director function provides me the chance to proceed to assist much more entrepreneurs,” he instructed Startup.
Techstars expanded to Seattle in 2010, and since then greater than 130 firms have gone via this system. They’ve collectively gone on to lift greater than $2.5 billion in non-public capital. The 2011 class alone produced three unicorns.
The 14th class of Techstars Seattle will kick off Oct. 31.
Techstars additionally runs a brand new Filecoin Techstars Accelerator out of Seattle. This system goals to assist firms utilizing the IPFS/Filecoin blockchain-based storage community.
Ciocirlan stated Seattle’s tech ecosystem has rather a lot going for it, however must “take extra daring bets on supporting early dangerous and radical concepts.”
And his recommendation to budding entrepreneurs?
“Check and iterate,” he stated. “Discovering product market match might be difficult, too many entrepreneurs get shortly discouraged when the primary few options don’t pan out. I encourage entrepreneurs to view the failed makes an attempt as one step nearer to fixing the puzzle. Ship quick, speak to prospects typically and hold iterating.”