{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"upside","title":"William Hsu of Mucker Capital // an accelerator committed to getting to you to your next round of funding [CC073]","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/4d1927a1\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2643,"description":"Interview begins: 7:07\r\nDebrief: 38:45\r\n\r\nWilliam 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.\r\n\r\nBased in Los Angeles, Mucker invests in Seed and Series A rounds in Southern California and other underfunded ecosystems outside Silicon Valley. \r\n\r\nMuckerLab 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.\r\n\r\nWe discuss:\r\n- Relying on one's experience 13:13\r\n- Working on a Comeback 15:08\r\n- Who's the Customer on VC? 18:38\r\n- MuckerLab 21:33\r\n- Scaling Vertically 25:49\r\n- Mucker Environment 30:31\r\n- Mucker being expensive 32:36\r\n- Vision for Mucker 34:34\r\n\r\nMucker Capital was founded in 2011 and based in Santa Monica, California.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/qhlBwGFVyVQpTQUPz91SL_FZ9LxsieuifdWQEs8peZY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzkxLzE2MDU2MzQx/MjktYXJ0d29yay5q/cGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}