• 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.

     

    "Terrence is an excellent advisor and investor."

    Andrew Lee, Founder and CEO of Purse.io 

     

    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-

     

    1st investor, board director, main adviser

     

    Sourced or helped raise 2/3 of the first round (low six figures)

     

    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.

     

    ACCELERATOR APPLICATIONS

    Helped Coin Hako become the first SE Asian startup at Boost VC accelerator in Silicon Valley

     

    2nd investor

     

    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

     

    Investing in Preceleratees

    2nd investor in Jessica McGlory's Forecastr

     

    Forecastr is our first Precelerator graduate

     

    Other investors-

    Gotham Gal Joanne Wilson

    Top 10 accelerator DreamIt Ventures

    Comcast Ventures

    YOU CAN DO IT

    Focus on shipping and testing with users. 

  • 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.

     

    Lots of paying customers loved Webvan (great referral scores) and they just bled money.

     

    We don't like most apps, event planning startups, social media, chat bots, etc.

     

    Anything at peak hype we’re likely to want to avoid. See Gartner hype cycle graph on the right.

     

    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.

  • 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
    • @yangterrence 

    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, ME USC, EdD Argosy
    • @vivooshkac

     

  • 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.

     

    SoGal Summit 2015 (thanks to Pocket for permitting us to use some of the photos from the event here)

    With Accel VC partner Richard Wolpert in Santa Monica

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  • CONTACT

    ceo@precelerator.com

    @preceleratorLA

  • Past Speaking Engagements

    Partial List

    • Founders Space (moderator), SV Startups Pitching Chinese investors from Cheung Kong EMBA Program, SF, July 2016.
    • Founder Space, Guest Advisor Session, SF, May 2016 & January 2016.
    • Attracting Capital from Chinese Investors in Silicon Valley, Angel Launch, Winston & Strawn, SF, December 2015.
    • Funding Post Panel with Adam Draper, others at Runway Accelerator, SF, November 2015.
    • Bitcoin Panel w/ VC Brock Pierce at Hero City, San Mateo, October 2015.

  • GALLERY

    Nature

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