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Venture Capital Episodes

May 5, 2021

Landing BIG customers while being a small startup - story of Telesign…

Stacy Stubblefield, Co-Founder and CIO at TeleSign that was acquired by BICS in 2017 talks about them lending their first large customers and that leading to a chain reaction that brought even more large customers. We spoke about marketing your …

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April 28, 2021

Choosing Between Small Law Firms, Big Ones, and Automated Alternative…

Anil Advani, founder and managing partner at Inventus Law and founding member and legal advisor at Excelerate talks about choosing the legal support that best suits your startup. We compare pricing of small and big law firms and some automated …

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April 26, 2021

Corinne Riley on the Importance of an Investment Thesis

Corinne Riley, Investor at Greylock talks about how an investment thesis strengthens a VC fund and a founder’s ability to pitch to that fund effectively. We discuss how much time you should spend trying to fit into an investment thesis …

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April 23, 2021

Validation Capital—What is it, and Who Needs it? - With Emily Zheng

Emily Zheng, Growth Investor at Brookfield Technology Partners, Proptech Vertical lead at EVCA and Board member at Nittany Lion Fund talks about what validation capital is and what it means to raise validation capital. We also discuss late-stage investing and …

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April 19, 2021

Venture Debt, the Los Angeles Ecosystem, and Big vs. Small Firms in E…

Petra Griffith, Founder & Managing Director at Wedbush Ventures talks about venture debt as an alternative to venture capital, key resources that founders can utilize in their ecosystem, and about Wedbush and what they invest in. Petra also explains staying …

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April 16, 2021

Selling his Company, Starting a New One, and Becoming an Investor - A…

Armando Biondi is the Co-founder and CEO at BreadcrumbsIO and has invested in 150+ startups. Previously he served as Co-founder and COO of AdEspresso which has since been acquired by Hootsuite. In this episode he spoke about his experience with …

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April 15, 2021

Business Development at Large Corporations vs. Small Startups #2 - Wi…

Daniel Gould, Alexa Business Development Principal at Amazon, Angel Investor , Band of Angels member and Partner at DV Collective Syndicate speaks on how business development at large corporations differs from small startups and what kind of tools and strategies …

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April 9, 2021

How Do You Evaluate an Investor Without Losing Them? With Scott Krivo…

Scott Krivokopich, Managing Partner at 1982 Ventures talks about qualifying questions that you need to ask your investors in order to understand who they are, how they work with other founders, and what to expect from them when hard times …

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April 8, 2021

Raising $100 Million while beating COVID-19 - the story of Lloyed Lob…

Lloyed Lobo, co-founder and president of Boast.ai talks about his bootstraps story and how he raised VC funding. We talk about Boast.ai’s recent $100 million funding round, which Lloyed secured while battling COVID-19.

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April 5, 2021

Jeff Ransdell of Fuel Ventures on Investing In Music-Tech, Robotics, …

Jeff Ransdell, founder and managing director at Fuel Ventures talks about how investor outreach works with few or no connections to the world of venture capital. We also debate different approaches to "cold outreach" and much more.

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April 2, 2021

Investing in Ag-Tech in the American Midwest and How Agriculture Diff…

Grant Newlin, Founder and General Partner at Newlin.vc tells us about investing in ag-tech and cross-border investing. We discuss how founders in ag-tech should approach fundraising and how their startup strategy should be different from SaaS startups.

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March 31, 2021

Building and selling an e-commerce empire to become a VC in the US - …

Today’s guest is Marcelo Franco, founder at Verve Capital and previously the co-founder of Sacks.com - the largest e-commerce company in South America at the time that it was acquired. Marcelo explains how his company managed to survive the dot …

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March 29, 2021

IP rights, NDAs and starting early - the story of Physna by Paul Powe…

Paul Powers, Founder & CEO of Physna talks about the beginnings of his career in startups and the challenges he faced. We talk a lot about NDAs, IP rights and how important those are for startup founders. We also touch …

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March 26, 2021

Silicon Valley Show in real life? Sure! Epic story of Distil Networks…

Rami Essaid, CEO at Finmark, venture partner at Pioneer Fund and partner at IDEA fund partners and previously the founder of Distil Networks that was acquired for over $100million tells the story of Distil Networks. Absolutely insane similarities between the …

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March 24, 2021

The most active VC of Midwest - Founder of M25 gives advice to founde…

Victor Gutwein, Founder and Managing Partner at M25 talks about startup ecosystem in the Midwest and how it changed recently due to the pandemic and where will it go once the pandemic is over. He gave a ton of valuable …

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