Marvin Liao, Founder and Partner of Diaspora Ventures and formerly a General Partner at 500 Startups joins the aSaaSins podcast to talk about. 

- What are Marvin's assessment criteria for investing in pre-seed and seed stage companies.

- How long after a company joined 500 Startups did he know if a company was going to make it or not, and what differentiated those that made it from those that didn't.  

- How the incubator model is changing and evolving, and what this means for the future of seed stage companies going through incubator programs.

- How to improve your odds at getting accepted into an early stage accelerator, and alternative approaches and options founders can take to get support to go from zero to one.