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.
Show Notes
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.
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