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Accelerators And Related Episodes

Nov. 26, 2021

1-month accelerator - how does it work? By Brett Goldstein

Brett Goldstein , Co-Founder at Launch House talks about focusing on the new values instead of pushing old shit through accelerators and how exactly he approaches it. We spoke a lot about how the fundraising field has changed...

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May 26, 2021

Content Generation: What Does it Take and Who Should Try it? With Amo…

Amos Schwartzfarb, Managing Director at Techstars and Trevor Boehm, Venture Partner at Saturn Five, co-authors of LEVERS - The Framework For Building Repeatability into Your Business talk about writing a book together and their motivation behind it. We also talk …

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March 19, 2021

User acquisition and African startup ecosystem - why are US investors…

Henry Pray, Director of Product Management at UpKeep talks about user acquisition for early startups and about the African startup ecosystem and why he personally likes it and sees so much potential in it. We've also talked about the major …

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Feb. 15, 2021

Testing out the idea for market disruption - how FidoCure made it. By…

Christina Lopes, Founder and CEO at FidoCure talks about how she came up with an idea, how she tested it out and raised her first rounds of funding. She also explained how she managed to get the attention of such …

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Oct. 30, 2020

Founder of one of the largest LA accelerators talks about early stage…

Brian Mac Mahon, Founder at Expert DOJO - one of the largest and most active accelerators in Los Angeles talks about fundraising for early stage startups, investment thesis of Expert DOJO and funding availability during the pandemic.

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Oct. 19, 2020

What it takes to raise the pre-seed round? By Adrian Sedlin.

Adrian Sedlin, serial entrepreneur with 5 successful exits and currently the CEO at CANNDESCENT, talks about - what do you need to have to raise the pre-seed round? What is FFF round (friends family and fools) and how those are …

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Oct. 10, 2020

SoCal Super Angel - why accelerators? By David Mandel.

David Mandel, SoCal-based super Angel, investing in emerging technology startups who Invested in over 500 startups up to date, talks about early stage startups. We focused our conversation on how helpful accelerators can be and why founders should consider applying …

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Oct. 4, 2020

How big corporations work with startups and how to get in touch with …

Anya Cheng, who worked as Product Head | Facebook, eBay, Target | eCommerce, Growth and others talks about how big corporations chose partners and how a small startup can partner with smaller teams at large corporations. We also talk about …

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Oct. 3, 2020

Mentorship and resources in the US vs other countries. By Gail Christ…

Gail Christine Gannon, Managing director at WaveEdge Capital, mentor to startups at US Market Access Center and an angel investors talks about her experience traveling the world to help founders in other countries. In this episode we talk a lot …

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Sept. 21, 2020

Moving to the Silicon Valley as a founder - when? By Carlos Ochoa.

Carlos Ochoa, Founder and Managing Partner at Alpha Impact 8 Ventures explains what it means to expand to the South Americas, who should do it and when is it applicable. We also talked about moving to the silicon valley and …

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Sept. 18, 2020

Free accelerators and what does the government support mean for start…

Miki Reynolds - Co-Founder and Executive Director at Grid 110 talks about the support that government provides to the early stage startup founders and specifically talks about Los Angeles eco-system. We discussed a variety of government programs aimed to support …

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Sept. 17, 2020

Advisers to CEOs - who needs them and how much do they cost? By Sherw…

Sherwin Estanislao, Founding Partner and Investor at Creative Interlace Tech Ventures in this episode of Fundraising Radio talks about who needs an advisor, how to find one and how much approximately should you give him/her. We also talked about the …

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Sept. 16, 2020

Acquired for $780 million - lessons learned about Fundraising and mov…

In this episode we talk to Zain Jaffer, Partner at Blue Field Capital and previously the founder and CEO of Vungle(acquired for $780M). Zain talks about how he moved from the UK to the US and about the mistakes that …

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Sept. 7, 2020

Birthday Special!

This episode is featuring the team members of Fundraising Radio. I (your host - Konstantin Dubovitskiy) answer the FAQs that I get and the other team members present themselves and talk about the reasons why they joined FR, what they …

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Sept. 4, 2020

Silicon Valley path - how does it work and what are the alternative r…

Rolan Reichel, CEO and Co-Founder at Custom Social explains how he views the "Silicon Valley Path" and who should try to follow it. He also explained his own approach to fundraising and why he follows it. We touched onto a …

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