Through the site, he has a community of founders at his fingertips, and he was able to ask them: What would they have done differently at the beginning?
It's also about a community of founders that he hopes to build, all of which will want to help each other out.
Reboot and groups like it have spawned a growing community of founders who are having honest conversations about leading venture-backed startups.
What is of interest is forming a "curated" community of founders who help one another and provide each other with investment opportunities, and on that front, Founders Den is proving very successful, especially for its creators.
"But there's an even bigger community of founders just on the other side of that graduation threshold; and if students can make great founders, then recent graduates make great founders as well," wrote Bruno Faviero, a former managing partner of Dorm Room Fund and current co-founder and chief executive officer of Synapse Technology, in a recent blog post.
Guys like Kopelman are so painfully pro-entrepreneur, and so service-oriented to the community of founders, one topic of discussion at our dinner was understanding all of the different founder perks on which he has spent his fund's money.
The community of tech founders associated with Stanford includes 40,000 companies, and many of their founders are happy to pay it forward to work with teams which are part of StartX.
"One of the things people get from joining EF is this cohort and community of technical founders.
We also met a community of amazing founders and the family at TechCrunch, who have helped us grow ever since.
The goal of the office hours is to build and grow a community of female founders who can help each other succeed.
