David Cohen

David Cohen (born 1968) is an American entrepreneur and the founder of Pinpoint Technologies, iContact.com, and Earfeeder. He is also an angel investor with a portfolio of more than 100 companies. Cohen is best known as the co-founder of Techstars, a mentorship-based startup accelerator.

He and Brad Feld co-authored Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup.

Early life and education

Cohen was born in 1968 in DeLand, FL.

Early career

Cohen began working as a software engineer in 1991 when he became the Director of Development for Automated Dispatch Services, Inc., where he worked until 1994. SonicSwap bought earFeeder.com in 2006.

Techstars Cohen is the founder and co-CEO of Techstars, a startup accelerator program In a speech at the Future of Entrepreneurship Education Summit, Cohen said that he was particularly interested in improving the entrepreneurial ecosystem of Techstars' launch city, Boulder, Colorado.

Works

Cohen is the co-author of Do More Faster with Brad Feld. Do More Faster shares advice for first-time entrepreneurs from the Techstars program. It includes essays from other Techstars mentors and company founders.