My guest for episode 44 of The Startup Playbook Podcast was Terry Gold, the Managing Director of Techstars Adelaide.

Prior to joining Techstars, Terry was the co-founder and CEO of Gold Systems, a company he ran for 23 years, the first 9 years of which were bootstrapped before taking $10M in VC investment from Mobius (then named Softbank) in 2000.

The company was a pioneer in IVR, CTI, Speech Recognition applications and the Unified Communications space with 11 of the Fortune 20 companies using Gold Systems software.

He was also a mentor in the first ever batch of Techstars and is now based in Australia and is now the Managing Director for the Techstars Adelaide Accelerator program, where he helps founders build successful startups.

In this episode we spoke about bootstrapping vs raising capital, how to hire and retain great staff, what Techstars looks for in startups, the ingredients of a good team and the importance of saying yes.

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