Anze Vodovnik

TechStars [http://www.techstars.com] is "over". Of course, when people say over they mean that as a terminal word. Not in this case. TechStars is a network of people, mentors, investors, alumni and most importantly - friends. I already wrote about these people [https://www.vodovnik.com/

It's been a little bit over a month since I first left [Slovenia]( http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.05,14.5&spn=10.0,10.0&q=46.05,14.5 [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.05,14.5&spn=10.

The time I planned to spend at TechStars comes to a much, much too premature of an end. I sat on a plan and at airports for a combined total of 16 hours yesterday and wondered why exactly I am returning back to Slovenia. Having experienced the true meaning of

TechStars is an amazing place for a start-up to be. It helps founders and team members asses the product choices, question our assumptions, redefine our value propositions and in the end, make a better product – which hopefully results in a healthy company. This takes more or less the whole day

In one of my previous posts [https://www.vodovnik.com/2012/07/25/what-is-in-a-good-team/], I’ve explained that I have left my position of a software architect in a [Slovenian]( http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=46.05,14.5&spn=10.0,10.0&q=46.05,

... but I'm currently working on a post about authentication.

This is the first in, hopefully many guest posts. The topic for this one is something that I found to be really hard - approaching an investor. What to say the first time, what answers to have... So I asked a dear friend, if she would be willing to write