Andres Barreto (he/him)
Managing Director, Techstars
Andres Barreto is an investor, entrepreneur, and Managing Director at Techstars. He has led investments in over 200 companies and serves on the Investment Committee for the global fund.
As a serial entrepreneur, Andres co-founded startups across music, finance, education, and media, including Grooveshark, Onswipe, Firstrock Capital, and Socialatom Group.
Andres is driven to help more founders reach product-market fit faster.
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Mentor Office Hours
Office Hours: Pitching Your Story
Craft compelling narratives that resonate with different audiences—from 30-second elevator pitches to investor decks to podcast interviews—learn how to tell your founding story in ways that make people care, remember you, and want to help you succeed. See More.
Startup Essentials
How to Actually Get to Product Market Fit
Most startup literature focuses on what Product-Market Fit (PMF) feels like and how to label it, leaving founders without a tactical guide on how to actually get there. See More.
Mentor Office Hours
Office Hours: Customer Success & Retention
Reduce churn by understanding why customers leave before they do, increase expansion revenue from existing customers, build customer success functions that prevent problems rather than just fix them, turn satisfied customers into champions who sell for you, and make retention more profitable than acquisition. See More.
Mentor Office Hours
Office Hours: Product Roadmap & Prioritization
Learn to say no to feature requests that don't serve your strategy, balance customer demands with your long-term vision, avoid feature bloat that makes your product unusable, and stay focused when everyone wants you to build something different. See More.
Mentor Office Hours
Office Hours: International Expansion
Know when entering new markets makes strategic sense versus premature distraction, manage the risks of expanding across borders, and grow internationally without destabilizing the markets where you're already winning. See More.