HOW WE HELP*
A Private Pre-Accelerator Focused On Helping You Find & Meet Unmet Needs.*
No fees. 1-on-1 Office Hours. Customized.
The catch?
If you get funded by someone else, we can match. Same terms. Up to 3% of your startup.
Questions, email us at ceo@precelerator.com.
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"Terrence is an excellent advisor and investor."
Andrew Lee, Founder and CEO of Purse.ioÂ
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Sourced Purse.io's first two VC investors, FundersClub (YC S12) in SF and Strong Ventures in L.A.
"Terrence's honest, hard-headed advice and generous amounts of help have been invaluable"
--Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger, founder CEO of Infobitt
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How we helped-
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1st investor, board director, main adviser
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Sourced or helped raise 2/3 of the first round (low six figures)
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Other investors include-
An ex-Snapchat VP of Engineering
K5 Ventures
Orrick Ventures
Silicon Valley Technical Help
Silicon Valley and L.A. software engineers help our startups.
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ACCELERATOR APPLICATIONS
Helped Coin Hako become the first SE Asian startup at Boost VC accelerator in Silicon Valley
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2nd investor
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Other investors-
Tim Draper
Government of Singapore
Office Hours
Our partner Vivy Chao is a former venture-funded CEO of a startup
Breakfast Club
Breakfast & Enplug tour with Nanxi Liu, founder CEO
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Investing in Preceleratees
2nd investor in Jessica McGlory's Forecastr
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Forecastr is our first Precelerator graduate
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Other investors-
Gotham Gal Joanne Wilson
Top 10 accelerator DreamIt Ventures
Comcast Ventures
YOU CAN DO IT
Focus on shipping and testing with users.Â
Why Unmet Needs?
Why Not Focus on Wants?
Webvan
Highest Net promoter score. Biggest disaster?
We are currently seeking startups focused on meeting an unmet need.
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Not want or love.
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Lots of paying customers loved Webvan (great referral scores) and they just bled money.
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We don't like most apps, event planning startups, social media, chat bots, etc.
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Anything at peak hype we’re likely to want to avoid. See Gartner hype cycle graph on the right.
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If you meet an unmet need, you can increase prices without losing total revenue (even though you lose some customers). You don’t have to raise prices - I own Amazon stock - but I want to know you can.
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TEAM
Terrence
Founding Partner
- Founder, Yang Ventures
- Board member, Infobitt, founded by a Wikipedia cofounder
- Ex-Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch New York
- Investor in fintech and other startups like Purse.io and OnePoint
- Adviser to Omniscience
- FundersClub panelist
- HBS Angels
- Ex-TCA Orange County Executive Committee
- Appears in Wikipedia
- Published in Forbes, Women 2.0, Inc.
- Quora Top Writer
- Son of Caltech PhD
- Startup UCLA mentor
- BS USC, JD Harvard
- @yangterrenceÂ
Dr. Vivy
Part-Time Partner
- Founder and CEO, Yang Camp
- Ex-CEO of venture funded edtech startup
- Ex-assistant principal K-12 private school in Orange County
- Teacher
- Cal State Long Beach adjunct professor
- Instructor, General Assembly
- Published in Women 2.0, HuffPo
- BA UCLA, MEÂ USC, EdD Argosy
- @vivooshkac
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MEDIA
Our founder has published in Forbes, Women 2.0, Inc. and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. He appears in Wikipedia, is a Quora Top Writer and is a top-ranked Bitcoin startup investor.
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SoGal Summit 2015Â (thanks to Pocket for permitting us to use some of the photos from the event here)
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