Exit early and exit often Clark Dever, Senior Product Manager at Techstars part 2

Techstars is a a globally-renowned seed accelerator that helps to catalyse founders, early-stage companies and support organisations to create a more dynamic and vibrant startup community. Part of what Techstars do is community building but how is this implemented?

Part two of Ronan’s chat with Clark Dever, Senior Product Manager at Techstars.

Clark talks about mentor madness, mentor whiplash, breakout startups, Covid and VC’s, the world is remote first. Clark also talks about what he has noticed about the Irish startup scene, having a global perspective, making relationships with VC’s, unicorns’s, post exit founder syndrome, why community is so important, product market fit.

More about Clark Dever:

He is a data driven, process-oriented, and customer-focused senior IT and operations management executive with 15+ years of technical experience and unique understanding of business management building high performance teams utilising process orientation for repeatable success. As a strategic systems thinker and resourceful problem solver, He possess an innate ability to drive process design / implementation, full stack Web development, and personnel management and development.

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