A Single Girl's Guide to Food, Drink, and Travel talks with top people in their field. Wine experts and winemakers, chefs and restauranteurs, and travel experts, join host Nanci Jo Saper for unique and lively conversations in the world of food, drink, and travel.
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Venture Unlocked is the playbook for starting, operating, & scaling a successful venture capital firm. Samir Kaji, Host of Venture Unlocked has +20-years of experience assisting & advising startups and venture firms. Listen for VC fund guidance. ventureunlocked.substack.com
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Whether you were the only girl on the football team, the only jock at robotics camp, or you just could never find anyone who appreciated your action figures enough, we’ve all felt like the weird kid at some point in our lives. Join comedians Carly Montag and Emily Walsh as they ask their guests about any time in life they felt like the odd one out. New episodes out every Monday!
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LINGUA E CULTURA ITALIANA NEL MONDO Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/piazzasquare/support
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Welcome to Seed to Scale. The podcast where Eniac Ventures sits down with founders, investors, and influencers to discuss all things startups and seed stage. Each episode will be hosted by an Eniac General Partner - Hadley Harris, Nihal Mehta, Tim Young or Vic Singh - to talk about the ups and downs of building an early-stage company, securing funding and what it takes to build a lasting business. Send topics or guest suggestions to seedtoscale@eniac.vc or @seedtoscale, and please subscribe, ...
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S4 Ep25: Alone Being in a Christian Homeschooling Cult with Natalie Naudus
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This week we are joined by Natalie Naudus! “A fave among audiobook listeners” (Buzzfeed), Natalie Naudus is one of the most beloved audiobook narrators working today. She has won an Audie award and nine Earphones awards, and maintains a robust social media following. She lives with her family on a mountain in Virginia. Gay the Pray Away is her debu…
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S4 Ep24: Alone Writing Queer YA Romances with James L. Sutter
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This week we are joined by James L. Sutter! James L. Sutter is a cocreator of the bestselling Pathfinder and Starfinder roleplaying games. He's the author of the queer young adult romance novels Darkhearts and The Ghost of Us, as well as the fantasy novels Death's Heretic and The Redemption Engine. His short stories have appeared in Nightmare, The …
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Doing a successful GP led secondary in Venture Capital, Why seed funds can scale, and what a good VC platform team looks like
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. In this episode, we are thrilled to be joined by Ben Sun, co-founder of Primary, a seed-stage fund based in New York. Ben shares his journey from investment banking to startup founder, and eventually to co-founding Primary, which…
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S4 Ep23: Alone Writing Jersey-Shore-Set Rom-Coms with Betty Corrello
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This week we are joined by Betty Corrello! Betty Corrello is a writer, comedian, and proud Philadelphian. She is the author of Summertime Punchline (2024) and 32 Days in May (Spring 2025). Despite her hardened exterior, Betty is biologically 95% marshmallow. Her greatest passion is writing stories where opposites attract, but love is chosen. When s…
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Investing in USV Fund I, lessons learned as a LP, and why Emerging Managers are so important
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. This week I'm excited to sit down with Lindel Eakman from Foundry. Lindel has been an investor in funds and companies since the early 2000s when he started at UTIMCO. In our conversation, Lindel talks about being one of the first…
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S4 Ep22: Alone Being a Best Selling Author with Annabel Monaghan
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This week we are joined by Annabel Monaghan! Annabel Monaghan is the national bestselling author of Same Time Next Summer and Nora Goes Off Script, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Her latest novel, Summer Romance, topped the lists of Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Washington Post, & Amazon Editors. Make sure to check her out! In this episode, we di…
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S4 Ep21: Alone Being a Body Acceptance Personal Stylist with Gab Saper
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This week we are joined by Gab Saper. Gab Saper is a personal stylist whose focus is to empower you to embrace your body through style and have a f*cking blast doing it. Working with Gab is not about keeping up with trends or what you “should be” wearing – it's about guiding you to the next evolution of your style. When your work together is done, …
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The great startup reckoning event of 2023 and 2024, but why startups should now start going back on offense featuring Tom Loverro of IVP
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. Tom Loverro, General Partner at IVP is our guest as part of our Venture Unlocked Shorts series intended to go deep on a single topic. We revisit Tom’s Twitter post from early 2023, which spoke to the market shift that was in moti…
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S4 Ep20: Alone Writing Genre Fiction with Meg Shaffer
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This Week we are joined by Meg Shaffer! Meg Shaffer is the USA Today bestselling author of The Wishing Game, which was a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist, a Book-of-the-Month finalist for Book of the Year, a #1 Barnes & Noble bestseller, and a Reader’s Digest Best Book of the Year. She holds an MFA in TV and Screenwriting from Stephens College. Her…
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Finding greatness in non-consensus startups, the story of Twitch from Justin.TV, and why great companies need insights and inflection points with Mike Maples
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. We're re-joined by Mike Maples, Jr. of Floodgate, this time to discuss his just released new book "Pattern Breakers." Mike was first on the pod in 2021 and it was great to catch up again, this time to discuss the importance of id…
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S4 Ep19: Alone Creating Audiobrary with Julia Whelan
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This week we are joined by Julia Whelan! Dubbed "The Adele of Audiobooks" by The New Yorker, Julia Whelan is an author, screenwriter, lifelong actor, and acclaimed audiobook narrator of over 600 titles. Her performance of her own debut novel, the international bestseller My Oxford Year, garnered a Society of Voice Arts award. Her 2022 novel, Thank …
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S4 Ep18: Alone Not Being into Boy Stuff with Will Purpura
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This week we are joined by Will Purpura! Will Purpura is a comedian based in New York, NY. Will has a high-energy positive act that's fun for everyone. Will has been featured in the Westside Comedy Festival (LA) the North Carolina Comedy Festival (Greensboro), West End Comedy Festival (Atlanta) and Altercation Comedy Festival (Austin TX). In 2023, …
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TX Zhuo’s of Fika Ventures on raising a Fund I, evolving decision making frameworks, and what founder first means to them
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. We're joined by TX Zhuo, Co-Founder and General Partner of Fika Ventures. His tech career began in college when he started an online textbook marketplace. After working at McKinsey and as a CFO at an operating company, TX joined …
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S4 Ep17: Alone Performing at the Apollo with Claire Alexander
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This Week we are joined by Claire Alexander! Claire is a standup comedian who can be seen performing regularly at comedy clubs QED and The Tiny Cupboard Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan, at her weekly comedy show “Drule” at Fette Sau in Williamsburg, as well as at other clubs and independent shows all over New York City city. Claire is also a headli…
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S4 Ep16: Alone Being Naked and Afraid with Sara Kunz
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This Week we are joined by Sara Kunz! Sara is 2x Discovery Channel Primitive Survivalist, Therapist in training, and Speaker extraordinaire. Sara is also the creator and performer of 3 solo shows blending standup comedy and circus stunts, performing in over 20 countries, 6 languages, and she even won some awards along the way! Now Sara helps indivi…
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S4 Ep15: Alone Working in Public Radio with Annie Russell
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This week we are joined by Annie Russell! Annie Russell is a comedian and editor, currently working as a senior producer at Storycorps, where her work can be heard on NPR’s Morning Edition. She is an experienced public radio editor, reporter and producer. She’s worked on a variety of short and long term projects, comedy podcasts, news stories and a…
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Limited Partner Unlocked: Michael Kim Cendana Capital on the Emerging Manager landscape, fundraising, and the need for liquidity
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. We are back with another LP-focused episode with Michael Kim, Founder of Cendana Capital. Michael shares how he started Cendana around his thesis (at the time very early) of backing small, emerging managers. This led to early inv…
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S4 Ep14: Alone Getting to Know Hosts Emily Walsh and Carly Montag
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his week is all about getting to know hosts Carly Montag and Emily Walsh. Do you think you know us? Guess again! In this episode, we play some rounds of “We’re Not Really Strangers” and discuss whether we’re morning or night people, our feelings about plants, our celebrity crushes, compliments we’ve gotten, advice we could give, and so much more. Y…
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S4 Ep13: Alone Being a Church Organist with Dan Frank
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This week we are joined by Dan Frank! Dan Frank is a standup comedian who has been featured at the Tiny Cupboard Penthouse Festival, GEM Fest, PN & Friends, and toured for the musical/comedy act Queer MF across the Southwest/West Coasts. His comedy mostly deals with his family, his experiences from pretending to be straight, and how everyone thinks…
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S4 Ep12: Alone Reading at the Breakfast Table with Ruth Ware
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This week we are joined by Ruth Ware! Ruth Ware is an international number one bestseller. Her thrillers In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, The Death of Mrs Westaway, The Turn of the Key, One by One, The It Girl and Zero Days have appeared on bestseller lists around the world, including the Sunday Times and New York Times,…
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Amy Saper of Uncork Capital on how startups should embrace constraints to foster creativity, and her learnings from being at Accel, X, Uber, and Stripe
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. We are back with Amy Saper, partner at Uncork Capital. Amy shares her journey from Silicon Valley operator at Twitter and Stripe to venture capitalist. She talks about Uncork’s strategy, including its recent $200 million seed fun…
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S4 Ep11: Alone Being a Voice Actor with Imogen Church
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This week we are joined by Imogen Church! Imogen is the voice of some of your favorite audiobooks! She trained as an actress at The Drama Centre London, has worked extensively in theatre, film, commercials, comedy sketch work, and works regularly as a voice artist! Imogen is also the author of Audible Original “Death and the Burlesque Maiden” and “…
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S4 Ep10: Alone Writing Thrillers with a Twist with Gillian McAllister
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This week we are joined by Gillian McAllister! Gillian McAllister is a British Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author, known for seven novels, several of which have been top ten bestsellers. Her works have been translated into 40 languages. She has been selected for the Reese Witherspoon book club, the Richard and Judy book club, the Ra…
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S4 Ep9: Alone Being a Body Positive and Anti-Diet Comedian with Lauren Hope Krass
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This week we are joined by Lauren Hope Krass! Comedian Lauren Hope Krass got her start in the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina. There, she performed improv and stand-up regularly at Theatre 99 and all over the city. What's especially unique about Lauren is her ability to put a body positive spin on jokes while remaining cuttingly hilari…
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S4 Ep8: Alone Writing The Vera Kelly Series with Rosalie Knecht
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This week we are joined by Rosalie Knecht! Rosalie Knecht is the author of Relief Map, Who is Vera Kelly? and Vera Kelly is not a Mystery, an Edgar Award winner and a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, as well as Vera Kelly Lost and Found, published June 2022. She is the translator of Cesar Aira's The Seamstress and the Wind. Make sure to chec…
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LP Unlocked shorts: What We're Hearing about Venture Liquidity with Meghan Reynolds of Altimeter
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. Today we have another version of Venture Unlocked shorts, and this time it will be focused on topics within the GP/LP world. Joining me again is Meghan Reynolds, who leads capital formation at Altimeter Capital. This time we disc…
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S4 Ep7: Alone Mashing Up Historical Fiction and Magical Realism with Sarah Penner
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This week we are joined by Sarah Penner! Sarah Penner is the author of two novels, The London Séance Society and The Lost Apothecary. Penner’s debut novel, The Lost Apothecary, has sold over one million copies, was on the USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists for 3 months, and was a book of the year top 5 finalist. The London Séance Soci…
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What's happening at the seed stage? Featuring Jenny Fielding, Kirby Winfield, and Nate Williams
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. This week we're doing another special roundtable discussion with a focus on the seed stage market. Joining us are Jenny Fielding of Everywhere Ventures, Kirby Winfield of Ascend, and Nate Williams of UNION Labs. This whole conver…
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S4 Ep6: Alone Winning Writing Contests with Rachel Beanland
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This week we are joined by Rachel Beanland! Rachel Beanland is the author of two novels, The House Is On Fire (Simon & Schuster, 2023) and Florence Adler Swims Forever (Simon & Schuster, 2020). Beanland’s debut novel, Florence Adler Swims Forever was featured as one of the best books of 2020 by USA Today, named a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and…
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S4 Ep5: Alone in the Semi-Royal Shakespeare Company with Yvette Segan
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This week we are joined by Yvette Segan! Yvette Segan is a comedian, actor, writer, and producer. She performs standup all over New York with club credits including Stand Up NY, The Tiny Cupboard, New York Comedy Club (produced shows), St Marks Comedy Club, The Grisly Pear, in addition to indie shows across the boroughs. Yvette is the co-producer a…
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The Craft of Venture Capital with David Sacks
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. We are thrilled to bring you a conversation with David Sacks, Founder and Partner of Craft Ventures. Based in San Francisco, Craft was founded in 2017 and currently has over 3 billion in assets under management. Across the last t…
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S4 Ep4: Alone Secretly Watching Will and Grace with Ben Fisher
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This week we are joined by Ben Fisher! Ben is a comedian, actor, and producer. His credits include SF Sketchfest, D.C. Comedy Fest, The National Arts Club, Peacock Show LA, New York Comedy Club, and his Jimmy Fallon impression has been seen at ‘Schtick or Treat,’ City Winery, and The Rainbow Room at 30 Rock. He hosts a monthly show ‘Comedy at Gotha…
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S4 Ep3: Alone Being an Ecstatic Dance DJ with Katya Stepanov
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This week we are joined by Katya Stepanov! Katya Stepanov is a Belarusian-Jewish-American artist, speaker, impact entrepreneur, DJ and holistic business coach devoted to creating and facilitating immersive experiences. Katya is a co-founder of Inheritance Project, a human impact company offering leadership and conflict resolution programs to build …
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Adam Bain of 01 Advisors on scaling Twitter from 0 to $1B+, being coached by Bill Campbell, and why they don't take board seats
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. This week we are pleased to be joined by Adam Bain of 01 Advisors, a San Francisco-based firm with nearly $1 billion under management. Adam and his partners, including Dick Costolo, have taken a very different approach to the ven…
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S4 Ep2: Alone Being a Very Funny Cancer Patient with Joey Friedman
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This week we are joined by Joey Friedman! Joey is a standup comedian, writer, and performer. She began performing at her parent’s dinner table in Monsey, NY. As a cancer survivor, she has nothing to fear and delivers jokes with an unshakable frankness. She produces shows in the DC area and can be found regularly hosting and featuring at the DC Impr…
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Mitchell Green of Lead Edge Capital on the Moneyball approach to investing, the art of effective cold calling, and managing 700+ strategic LPs
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. We have a conversation with Mitchell Green, Founder and Managing Partner at Lead Edge Capital. With offices in New York and Santa Barbara, the firm has over $5B in Assets under management and specializes in helping growth-stage c…
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S4 Ep1: Alone Liking Sad Music with Max Fine
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This week we are joined by Max Fine! Max Fine is a comedian who is highly praised for his colorful storytelling and for tapping into his own personal experiences for laughs. He performs in clubs all over the country and bars in New York City. Max has had the privilege of being invited to some of the most prestigious comedy festivals in the country …
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S3 Ep52: Alone Being Generation X with Carolyn Castiglia
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This week we are joined by Carolyn Castiglia! Carolyn is a multi-disciplinary artist who employs stand-up, storytelling, music, and more to wow audiences with her powerfully funny and endearing performances. Carolyn has appeared on numerous television and streaming networks including Comedy Central, MTV, VH1, Lifetime, HLN, fyi, WE tv, Food Network…
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Limited Partner Unlocked shorts: What we're Hearing from LPs with Meghan Reynolds of Altimeter
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. Today we have another version of Venture Unlocked shorts, and this time it will be focused on topics within the GP/LP world. Joining me for this around-the-water-cooler recurring series is Meghan Reynolds, who leads capital forma…
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S3 Ep51: Alone Being a Nationally Ranked Latin Ballroom Dancer with Lana Siebel
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This week we are joined by Lana Siebel! Lana is stand up comedian who headlines shows across the United States and performs regularly at comedy clubs in New York City. She will be filming her Dry Bar comedy special in March 2024. She has also acted in many independent films and was very recently featured on the site Comics that Kill along with Kevi…
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Khosla Venture's Samir Kaul on building an iconic, durable firm, and the role of non-consensus decision making
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. We have a conversation with Samir Kaul from Khosla Ventures. Founded in 2004, Khosla is one of the largest and most well-known venture capital firms in the world and led by legendary investor and entrepreneur Vinod Khosla. The fi…
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S3 Ep50: Alone Getting Dumped By a Clown with Colleen Genevieve
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This week we are joined by Colleen Genevieve! Colleen is a stand up comedian who brings her over the top personality to every stage she graces. Colleen is based out of Queens, New York and has a monthly show at The Stand called Rent Money. She’s been featured on Sirius xm. In this episode, we discuss being from Rhode Island, being a theater girl, b…
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S3 Ep49: Alone Growing Up Rich with Lucas Zelnick
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This week we are joined by Lucas Zelnick! Lucas Zelnick is a stand-up comedian born, raised, and based in New York City who challenges his cushy upbringing through punch-heavy material. Lucas has appeared in SF Sketchfest and the New York Comedy Festival. He’s been featured in the New York Times, appeared as a guest on Amazon Prime Video’s Sports T…
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Venture Unlocked Shorts: Looking back the era of Unicorns and what's ahead?
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. This is our second episode of Venture Unlocked Shorts where we highlight a specific point of view of our guest. These points of view may come through a tweet, an article, or an offline conversation, and our goal is to unpack thes…
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S3 Ep48: Alone Being the Musical Theatre Kid with Kayla Kleinman
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This week we are joined by Kayla Kleinman! Kayla Kleinman is a multi-passionate social media strategist and content creator based in NYC. On Instagram and TikTok she shares thoughts on life in your 30s, book recommendations, and a realistic approach to wellness. In addition to creating content, she works full-time in social media marketing at Books…
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Venture Unlocked Shorts: Why VC has gone mainstream and the parallels to private equity and hedge funds
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. As we continue to grow Venture Unlocked, we are now going to release short conversations highlighting a specific point of view of our guest. These points of views may come through a tweet, an article, or conversation, and our goa…
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The opportunity outside of Silicon Valley and how to build a strategic LP base with Brendan Wales and Kellan Carter of FUSE
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. We are excited to bring on Brendan Wales and Kellan Carter, Co-Founders and GPs of FUSE. Founded in 2020 with a thesis centered around the growth of the Pacific Northwest ecosystem, a geography both of our guests know well. With …
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S3 Ep47: Alone Being a Phish Fan with Max Higgins
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This week we are joined by Max Higgins! Max (they/he) is a stand up comedian who performs all over Vermont and travels regularly to do standup in New York and around the Northeast. Max runs a monthly show called Comedy Wolf at Radio Bean in Burlington, Vermont. Max wrote, produced, and hosted Talk Show with Max Higgins that ran at the Vermont Comed…
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S3 Ep46: Alone Cohosting a Law and Order SVU Podcast with Kara Klenk
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This week we are joined by Kara Klenk! Kara is a stand up comic, writer, and actor who was named by Time Out New York as one of the Top 10 Funniest Women in NYC. Kara has appeared on Netflix, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Oxygen, Hulu and more. She has written for Netflix, Nickelodeon, MTV, TVLand, and Comedy Central and most recently for RuPaul’s D…
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Meet The Expert Series: Matt Trotter of Stifel Bank on the state of the venture debt market, and how investors & startups should approach the credit markets today
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Follow me @samirkaji for my thoughts on the venture market, with a focus on the continued evolution of the VC landscape. On this special meet the expert episode, we are discussing the venture debt market with Matt Trotter, a Managing director within Stifel Bank’s Venture division. Stifel Bank was established in St. Louis, MO in 1890 and is an indep…
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