William Hsu of Mucker Capital // an accelerator committed to getting to you to your next round of funding [CC073]

Summary: Interview begins: 7:07 Debrief: 38:45 William Hsu is a founding partner at Mucker Capital. He started his career as a founder, creating BuildPoint, a provider of workflow management solutions for the commercial construction industry not long after graduating from Stanford. Based in Los Angeles, Mucker invests in Seed and Series A rounds in Southern California and other underfunded ecosystems outside Silicon Valley. MuckerLab works with only 10-20 companies per year in annual cohorts. No three month bootcamps. No demo days. Just heads-down business building for one year -- or however long it takes to reach the next set of critical business milestones. We discuss: - Relying on one's experience 13:13 - Working on a Comeback 15:08 - Who's the Customer on VC? 18:38 - MuckerLab 21:33 - Scaling Vertically 25:49 - Mucker Environment 30:31 - Mucker being expensive 32:36 - Vision for Mucker 34:34 Mucker Capital was founded in 2011 and based in Santa Monica, California.