The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman. If you would like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC (20VC), head to www.20vc.com for more information on the podcast, show note ...
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As the founder of an early-stage startup you have one goal: find product-market fit. The Product Market Fit Show is a weekly podcast about the 0 to 1 journeys of the world's most successful tech startups. We go deep with entrepreneurs & VCs to provide detailed examples you can steal. Our goal is simple. We want to understand product-market fit better than anyone on the planet.
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A podcast for people working on startup ideas. We have 15-minute tactical episodes and occasional interviews with people who did the early things exceptionally well. We've helped launch hundreds of startups worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and these are the building blocks. "This is, without a doubt, the best podcast for people trying to build startups out there." "If you aren't listening to this podcast and you're considering building a business (or you're already building one), what ...
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Interested in Portland, Oregon, startup news…? Silicon Florist has been a leading source for news on early-stage startups in the Rose City since 2007. Now, I'm offering a quick recap of the stories from the week to ensure that you're always in the loop on what's happening in the Portland startup community.
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We believe in enabling innovation within the MedTech industry. We are an educational platform that supports early-stage entrepreneurs interested in being successful in the medical device space. We provide free education and a support system to better prepare startups. While there is value to startup accelerators or competitions, we want to ensure the startups reach the next milestone consistently. Follow us and learn from the best in class.
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FiredUp! is the show for marketers working in early and late-stage startups. Each week, we walk through fresh strategies and tactics to build brand and drive demand for your startup. Featuring interviews with marketing leaders, our take on the latest trends, and practical tips about PR, content marketing and growth marketing, we promise plenty of signal with some noisy fun along the way. FiredUp! is hosted by the team at startup marketing agency, Firebrand. Learn more at firebrand.marketing ...
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Join your host and hype girl, Doone Roisin, for full access to the best knowledge, tips, and strategies from the world's most exciting (and successful) founders & entrepreneurs doing multi 7, 8 & 9 figures in revenue - who happen to be women. This is the go-to space for early stage dreamers women-in-progress to be inspired to start their side hustle or business, and get help along the journey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Unicorn Bakery is the startup podcast about the essential questions and issues in founding a startup. We interview the world’s leading startup founders and venture capital investors to cover every stage of the startup process, from ideation and strategy to technical, legal and financial issues. Listen to stories and lessons learned from the world's best founders and learn what it takes to create and scale your own startup.
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The CVC Unplugged podcast is a weekly show that brings you fascinating and wide-ranging conversations with leading corporate venture capital investors, subject matter experts, startup founders, journalists and other market participants to keep you informed of the most important trends affecting early-stage investing.
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Enterprise Sales & Marketing Leadership - for B2B Companies - CXO - VC - Startup - Success - SaaS
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A show for CEO's, CMO's CRO's and Venture Capitalists If you are in a B2B Leadership role this is the podcast for you. The founder of "The Brutal Truth About Sales & Selling" interviews the most thought-provoking guests. We will cover what is working today in Sales & Marketing. If you like Tim Ferriss, Bill Burr, Dave Ramsey, Serial, Reply All, The Art of Charm, HBR, WTF, Startup, Motley Fool, Money, Gimlet, TEDTalk, NPR, EOFIRE, The TOP, Ziglar, Hustler, Advanced Selling, Salesman Red, Sale ...
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In this podcast we interview startup founders & players supporting early-stage EdTech startups from across Europe in 20+ minutes. The podcast is brought to you by the EdTech Garage, a community for early-stage European EdTech startups where founders can scale up faster through the founder community, matchmaking and specialized resources. Learn more on edtechgarage.org and follow us on LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/edtechgarage/. Host: Frank Albert Coates Music: Ehsansation
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The Trajectory Africa is a “pop-up” podcast exploring the trajectory, or pathway, of venture capital and startup formation in Africa. With the unique African landscape—market characteristics, business environment, goals, and culture—as a starting point, The Trajectory Africa aims to identify a destination for African tech, as well as the sign posts that signal direction of travel. It’s modeled on the concept of a mixtape, in which each episode, or “track” will feature a conversation with a “ ...
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A podcast for entrepreneurs who are looking to build & grow their startups. Avoid common traps & learn uncommon strategies & tactics from makers & doers of startup ecosystem. Prime Ventures is a early-stage venture fund which focuses on startups that not only need capital but also require mentoring to transform them into disruptive companies. We share a passion for working closely with entrepreneurs and enjoy sharing their journey in a high-frequency, interactive and fun environment.Read mor ...
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Patently Strategic - Patent Strategy for Startups
Aurora Patent Consulting | Ashley Sloat, Ph.D.
A patent focused podcast for inventors, founders, and IP professionals, covering the finer points, sharp edges, and nuances of startup patent strategy. Each monthly episode will feature a round-table style discussion amongst experts in the field of patenting. Patently Strategic is brought to you by Aurora Consulting, a patent strategy boutique that specializes in working with early stage life science, medical device, digital health, and software companies to develop valuable patent portfoli ...
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This Much I Know is the podcast from Seedcamp, Europe’s seed fund. Tune into hear the inside story from startup founders, investors and leading tech voices: the people who’ve built businesses, scaled globally, failed fantastically and learnt massively. Seedcamp invests early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. Seedcamp provides the infrastructure to fast-track a founder’s vision and create value through immediate access to smart ...
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Successful entrepreneurs begin with the support of a few #earlybelievers. Gopi Rangan, founding partner at Sure Ventures, interviews venture capital investors in the Silicon Valley and beyond. Guests share insider stories on how they invest in early stage startups. Do you want to learn from real-life challenges, inspiring missions and important decisions by CEOs, founders, VCs, angels, and advisors? Listen to https://podcast.sure.ventures.
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Listen to conversations between Madrona investors and entrepreneurs, founders, and startup personalities who talk about some of the key moments in building a company. Designed to give would-be founders and others interested in working with or for startups a view into the struggle and the lessons learned, these conversations are informal and informative. With more than 25 years of investing in early-stage technology companies, Madrona has worked with founders from day one to help build their ...
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Crossing the Enterprise Chasm is a podcast on how high-growth startups prepare to build with enterprises and Fortune 500 companies. Each week WorkOS founder Michael Grinich is joined by founders, early-stage team members, and product leaders who lead the charge to go upmarket. In every episode, you'll find tactics, strategies, and actions on how to successfully sell to and serve your crucial early enterprise customers.
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Professor-turned-entrepreneur, and founder of nine companies, Jothy Rosenberg talks with business leaders and personal achievers. A companion to his book Tech Startup Toolkit, the “Designing Successful Startups” podcast tells the stories of Jothy's guests as they took on the challenges of building a new startup. The lessons conveyed come from both things done right and things done wrong that can help listeners learn the best way to design their own startups to be successful. Along the way th ...
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The "Unconventional Founders Podcast" delves into the inspiring success stories of non-technical founders in the tech startup world, focusing on their unique mindsets, strategic frameworks, and innovative approaches. It is tailored for aspiring non-technical entrepreneurs, offering a wealth of insights, practical lessons, and actionable advice. The podcast celebrates the diverse and impactful journeys of these entrepreneurs, showcasing how they have navigated and succeeded in the tech indust ...
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Casual conversations with founders, technologists, investors, and artists about building a brighter future, together. Welcome to our digital living room. With science, technology and entrepreneurship we can *continue* to create unfathomable leaps in quality of life. We show you how to find, apply, build, and invest in technologies to change your life and the world. When we have smart friends, we do smart things. When we do smart things, we save the world. No matter who, where, or when you ar ...
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Welcome to The Biotech Startups Podcast by Excedr. Join us as we speak with first-time founders, experienced scientists, long-time company operators, serial entrepreneurs, and biotech investors about the challenges and triumphs of running a biotech startup. Gain actionable insight into navigating the ever-changing life sciences industry in each episode as we explore the business of science, from pre-seed to IPO. With your host, Jon Chee.
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What happens when a VC and a CEO come together? – They nerd out about all things revenue. And they don’t always agree. Raul Porojan of Project A Ventures and Toni Hohlbein of Growblocks are the Super Revenue Brothers. In every episode they dissect and debate current issues in B2B SaaS, and offer solutions on how to solve them No matter if you’re an early-stage startup or a scaling unicorn – you’ll always learn something new.
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B2B Revenue Leadership - CEO, CRO, CMO, VC, Sales and Marketing Startup SaaS
Sales Leadership Marketing Startup SaaS expert - Brian Burns
If you're interested in B2B Revenue Leadership this is the show for you. From the founder of The Brutal Truth about Sales & Selling and The Sales Questions PodCast. This PodCast is Focused on Leadership in the B2B Space to drive revenue by using the most modern and scientific approaches. If you are a CEO, VC, CRO, CMO or want to be one some day this PodCast is for you. If you like Tim Ferriss, Bill Burr, Dave Ramsey, Serial, Reply All, The Art of Charm, HBR, WTF, Startup, Motley Fool, Money, ...
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Learn from angel and seed investors bold enough to write the first check. How do they decide which startups to invest in? How do they gain conviction in founders and ideas? How do they add value to their companies? Shaherose Charania and Aamir Virani are operators turned investors. They chat with their friends investing in early-stage technology startups and learn about their strategies to fund the best founders and startup companies. If you are an angel investor or seed investor, you'll hea ...
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2 Pizza Marketing is a series of conversations with marketers working on small teams to create success, learn from failure, and stay sane. The stories you'll hear are relatable, honest, and packed with solutions to help anyone wading through the mess of marketing at an early-stage company. Episodes launch weekly. Hosted by Melissa Moody (Previous Co-founder and CMO at Gated) and Ashley McGovern (Head of Content at Realync).
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Germany has a long and rich history when it comes to entrepreneurship. In TechStartups Germany, we interview local companies that are looking for global expansion opportunities or investors seeking out fresh investment prospects at home or abroad. We cover startups from Hessen including Frankfurt, Darmstadt, and other tech startup hubs in the state, as well as the deep tech and venture capital ecosystem. Our goal is to provide an insightful look into the Hessian startup scene for entrepreneu ...
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The crazy nature of early stage startups (the uncertainty, the doubters, the rejection) can be similar to the forces felt by those who at some point in their lives felt the need to make seismic shifts in their personal worlds. My aim as your host is to bring the raw stories of startup failure and fuckup, alongside the inspirational messages of encouragement, tips and suggestions. Alongside the business chats we will also hear stories from people living interesting and inspirational lives. Th ...
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The Consumer VC: Venture Capital I B2C Startups I Commerce | Early-Stage Investing I Brands
Mike Gelb
The Consumer VC takes a look into early-stage consumer investing and venture capital. If you are interested in learning about consumer trends, have a b2c business and interested in learning about the fundraising process at the early stage, you have come to the right place. Mike interviews some of the top venture capitalists in the world that focus on B2C and consumer type companies or have a deep track record investing in these categories such as marketplaces, SaaS, social, CPG and non-tech ...
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Are you an early stage founder revolutionizing the future of retail? Then you’re in the right place. My name is Sapna Shah and I’m an angel investor investing at the preseed stage in retail tech, ecommerce, marketplaces and consumer. I’m also the founder of Retail X Series, an ecosystem to help early-stage founders in the retail sector. Retail X Series includes events, a YouTube channel, a Slack community, resources for founders, and this podcast. In this podcast, I interview founders, inves ...
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Welcome to Venture In The South, a podcast devoted to the Startup Ecosystem in the Southern US. Co-hosts Paul Clark and David Grisell share their experiences with over 100 startup investments, interview founders about their entrepreneurial efforts, and debate with thought leaders about significant events in the early stage ecosystem. Shows are released every Monday and are about 30 minutes long. We plan about 50% of shows to be Founder interviews, 25% interviews with thought leaders, and abo ...
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First Cheque is dedicated to open-sourcing conversations with experienced investors globally. Our aim? To enhance the craft of early-stage investors, from those writing their first cheques to the veterans in the game. First Cheque is supported by our wonderful sponsors: Vanta | https://dayone.fm/vanta Turo | https://dayone.fm/turo Scendar | https://dayone.fm/scendar Hosted by Cheryl Mack & Maxine Minter, First Cheque is a Day One show. Day One is the podcast network dedicated to founders, in ...
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Mentor of Change at Atal Innovation Mission - Nurturing Startup Ecosystem | Entrepreneur | Early Stage Startups Mentor | Growth Strategy Consultant
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In this podcast, serial entrepreneur Hadi Radwan will sit with founders and entrepreneurs to uncover how they acquired their first 100 paying customers. This podcast is designed for early-stage founders or soon-to-become entrepreneurs who want to discover tactics, frameworks, and advice on how to reach this important milestone.
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The Startup Science Podcast, hosted by Gregory Shepard, and produced by ForbesBooks, focuses on conversations in the cross-section of foundership and investing and features best-selling authors like Oren Klaff (Pitch Anything & Flip the Script), David Allen (Getting Things Done), and David Covey COO of FranklinCovey and author of Trap Tales: Outsmarting the 7 Hidden Obstacles to Success. Investing giants like Tim Draper, Leaders like NBA Coach Phill Weber, and newly exited founders like you. ...
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A podcast about building tech products with Éphémère Creative. There's a lot of content out there about the big tech companies and how they work. But what about solopreneurs, early stage startups, non-profits, and small businesses building tech? It turns out that building small systems is an art, and in this podcast we'll talk about what it takes. 🗣️ Got feedback? Want to be a part of this? Contact us! hello@smalltechpodcast.com 🚀 Subscribe to the podcast: https://smalltechpodcast.com/ ✉️ Su ...
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MassChallenge is the largest-ever startup accelerator and competition, and the first to support high-impact, early-stage entrepreneurs with no strings attached.
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Alexandre Azevedo interviews startup founders to learn about their journey from idea to the traction stage.
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A sit down conversation with people building amazing solutions that are solving big problems across the world.
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Welcome to Life Behind Startup Lines. In this podcast, we talk to entrepreneurs about building sales in early-stage businesses. Building and running a business is a daily battle. You operate behind enemy lines disrupting incumbents with improved products and services. You live with the reality that plans rarely survive first contact with the market. So join me as we explore the experiences of successful startup founders.
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We started a company while we were still in school and made every mistake in the book. Come along for the ride as we tell the story from the very beginning and break down the highs and lows of starting a business as seniors in college. Hint: we don't take ourselves very seriously.
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Women Who Tech is on a mission to fund women-led startups. Through our Women Startup Challenges, which have been held at Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, and London's City Hall, we have brought together the best early-stage, women-led startups to pitch top investors. We've succeeded in enabling more than $20 million raised for women founders. What’s next? The Women Startup Challenge Podcast! Each week we’ll feature one of ten women-led startups competing for a $5,000 cash grant. We’ll hear from ...
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From early-stage VC NextView Ventures, Traction is a show about all the creative, clever, unusual, and downright brilliant ways entrepreneurs scrap their way to early results. These are stories you don't often hear despite being crucial to every startup. Founders, startup execs, media members, and investors are interviewed, with a unique spin and sound. Subscribe for these shows and more content like it at ViewFromSeed.com
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After working for years in early-stage startups and as a journalist, here are three hard truths I’ve learned: 1. Success in Silicon Valley hinges on connections, hard work and luck. 2. Startups often fail because founders lack fundamental business knowledge. 3. Real, actionable advice comes from those who’ve actually done it. There’s no such thing as “founder DNA.” If you’re willing to take on risk and invest years of your life in something that has maybe a 10% chance of paying off — less if ...
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Named a top 27 business podcast by Fortune, upside examines startup investing outside of Silicon Valley. Every Wednesday, we speak with an early stage founder. We interview them as if we are angel investors considering the company as an investment opportunity. Each show has three segments: 1.) Intro: independent research of the company 2.) Interview: interview with the founder 3.) Debrief: breaking down the opportunity Sometimes, we share Coffee Chats interviewing venture capitalists, commun ...
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How They Built a Direct-to-Consumer Baby Food Brand and Scaled to Selling Millions of Products Each Month with Angela Vranich and Ben Lewis From Little Spoon
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Our guests today are Angela Vranich and Ben Lewis, the dynamic duo behind Little Spoon, as we explore their journey from high school sweethearts to co-founders of a revolutionary baby food brand. Listen in as they share how their early fascination with consumer brands led them to the natural products industry, and how their personal relationship ev…
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David Verrill and the Angel investing model and process for early stage financings
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Summary In this conversation, Jothy Rosenberg interviews David Verrill about angel investing in startups. They discuss the role of angels, the evolution of angel investing, and the benefits of a fund structure. They also touch on the importance of supporting first-time CEOs and the criteria for making successful investments. David shares his passio…
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Meet The Early Stage AI Startup That Already Worked With NASA
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🎙️ Next Step in Machine Learning with Danko Nikolic | Startuprad.io Podcast Join Jörn "Joe" Menninger as he interviews Danko Nikolic, CEO and Founder of Robots go Mental. Dive into their groundbreaking machine learning algorithms inspired by brain research, shaped by Danko's background in psychology and statistics from the Max Planck Institute. Dis…
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🧬 David Li - Meliora Therapeutics - Part 2 | From Finance to Biotech Entrepreneurship | Building Solid Teams & Navigating Market Dynamics | Lessons in Early-Stage Startups
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As a podcast listener, you can redeem exclusive discounts with a growing list of biotech vendors and get $500 off your first equipment lease by using promo code “TBSP” on https://www.excedr.com/rewards. Part 2 of 4. My guest for this week’s episode is David Li, CEO and co-founder of Meliora Therapeutics. Meliora's goal is to develop life-saving can…
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Banking on Social Intelligence: A Community Model for Microbusiness Lending
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In the previous episode of the Trajectory Africa, we heard from Kiiru Muhoya and Judith Bogonko at Fingo about the importance of cultivating Africa’s youth as the next generation of retail consumers of financial services. In this episode, we’ll hear how Femi Iromini, Co-Founder and CEO of Moni, and his team, have created a community lending model f…
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Annika Lundström is leading the development of a diagnostics tool for mental health
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Summary Annika Lundström, the founder of Reminded, a medical technology startup, discusses her journey and the development of a diagnostics tool for mental health. She talks about her experience participating in a Finnish entrepreneurship program in San Francisco and the challenges and opportunities she encountered. Annika explains the focus of her…
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This Week in SaaS: Should Wiz Have Accepted Google's $23BN Acquisition Offer, Crowdstrike: WTF Happens From Here: The Bull and the Bear Case & $1BN into Legal Tech in a Day with Clio and Harvey with Jason ...
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Jason Lemkin is one of the OG SaaS investors with all of his first five investments turning into unicorns with Pipedrive, Algolia, Talkdesk, Salesloft and RevenueCat all in his portfolio. SaaStr is the largest global community in SaaS and he has taught a generation the fundamentals of SaaS on saastr.com. In Our Second Episode of This Week in SaaS: …
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6 Quick Questions with Pearler founder Katie Zana (Part 2)
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This is Katie Zana for Female Startup Club. Hello and welcome back to the show! It’s Doone here - your host and hype girl. Today is a super exciting day because you're going to be meeting Katie Zana, the founder of Pearler. You're going to be hearing a lot more from her on the regular because this is the first of an ongoing series with Katie. Now t…
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09: Angels of Shopify investing collectively and lessons on following your gut - Atlee Clark, Angel
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What do you get when you mix U.S. national security, angel investing, and kids’ pajamas? Atlee Clark. Proud Canadian Atlee took a hard pivot from the public sector to the tech world, first through a nonprofit called the C100, which supports entrepreneurs, and later at Shopify, focusing on 0 - 1 initiatives. Similar to other angel collectives emergi…
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Patiently Teach Investors What You Know to Win Them Over
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Venktesh Shukla, Founder and General Partner at Monta Vista Capital, shares his journey from a reluctant immigrant to a successful entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He outlines his investment strategy at Monta Vista Capital, emphasizing deep due diligence, expert validation, adaptability, continuous learning, and leveraging networks. Additionall…
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Everything a Small Biz Owner needs to know about Shopify, Automations & Optimisation! With Pearler’s Founder Katie Zana (Part 1)
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This is Katie Zana for Female Startup Club. Hello and welcome back to the show! It’s Doone here - your host and hype girl. Today is a super exciting day because you're going to be meeting Katie Zana, the founder of Pearler. You're going to be hearing a lot more from her on the regular because this is the first of an ongoing series with Katie. Now t…
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S2 E5: From the ground up: Building startups with Deb Kemper of Golden Seeds Ventures
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Deb Kemper is a managing partner of Golden Seeds Ventures, a firm that focuses on backing early-stage, women-led companies. She joined me on the podcast to share tactics with founders who want to build networks with investors outside of Silicon Valley and discuss some of the challenges facing anyone seeking follow-on funding these days. We also tal…
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🧬 Nathan Clark - Ganymede - Part 3 | Parallels Between Benchling & Salesforce | Getting Customers to Fully Buy-In | Managing the “Writhing Snake of Data” | Ganymede Achieves Escape Velocity Growth
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As a podcast listener, you can redeem exclusive discounts with a growing list of biotech vendors and get $500 off your first equipment lease by using promo code “TBSP” on https://www.excedr.com/rewards. Part 3 of 4. My guest for this week’s episode is Nathan Clark, Founder and CEO of Ganymede. Ganymede is the modern cloud data platform for the life…
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In 2019, he went all-in on AI & grew to $3M ARR in 2 years— now he’s at $85M ARR | Shubham Mishra, Founder of Pixis
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5 years ago, Shubham had just graduated college and had no network. He bootstrapped to $3M in ARR, then raised $200M & grew to $85M ARR. But he started trying to sell AI for marketing to enterprises with no network. So for 2 months, he'd go to the lobby of a bank and sit there for an hour. He'd wait for the CMO to walk by, just so he could say hi. …
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Send us a Text Message. E128: The story of Ozy Media is one of greed, betrayal, grift and astonishing hubris. But not the first nor the last such occurrence. While not on the scale of Theranos or FTX, it was not for lack of trying. David details the 10 year saga of Ozy Media's rise and spectacular fall, culminating with criminal convictions on fede…
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20VC: How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet | Investing Lessons from Roelof Botha & Peter Thiel | Why VC is Less Collaborative Than Ever and Great Companies Are Being Destroyed by ...
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Kevin Hartz is a Co-Founder and General Partner at A*, an early-stage venture capital firm. Prior to founding A*, Kevin co-founded Eventbrite, a publicly traded company, and served as the CEO for the first 11 years of the company. Before Eventbrite, Kevin co-founded Xoom, a money remittance company that was acquired by PayPal in 2015 for over $1BN.…
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Exploring Growth Stage Investing with Ex-Investment Banker Turned VC
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Episode Summary: In this episode, host Maxine Minter and co-host Cheryl Mack dive into the world of growth stage investing with guest Christina Fa from NewView Capital. They explore the reasons why ex-investment bankers transition to VC, discuss the nuances of growth-stage investing, and shed light on the importance of secondaries in the current ma…
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Making Your Mark in the First 30 Days and Beyond with Lee Moskowitz (Smartpass)
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After a long, thoughtful, public job search in which he shared learnings with his nearly 10K LinkedIn followers, the brilliant Lee Moskowitz is now Director of Growth Marketing at edtch company Smartpass. Join him and host Melissa Moody as they dig into: - How Lee uses AI (no, really) - The importance of the first 30 days - What's the first thing y…
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S2 E4: VAST Data CEO/founder Renen Hallak: “When we started, AI wasn't a thing.”
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One of the first interviews I did for the podcast was with Renen Hallak, CEO and founder of AI infrastructure company VAST Data. The company launched in 2019, and three years later, it was ranked No. 5 on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500™. Today, its customer base includes massive organizations like Disney, Verizon, the US Air Force and the US Depa…
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Week ending Jul 19, 2024 - Portland startup news
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This week in Portland startup news… a new startup studio provides services for Portland startups, Prosper Portland opens an Office of Small Business, VC Diane Fraiman sits down with TAO, Oregon Venture Fund explains their process, and ways to get connected in the Portland startup community.Last week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA-Myn8KBh0&list=…
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Week ending Jul 19, 2024 - Portland startup news
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This week in Portland startup news… a new startup studio provides services for Portland startups, Prosper Portland opens an Office of Small Business, VC Diane Fraiman sits down with TAO, Oregon Venture Fund explains their process, and ways to get connected in the Portland startup community. Last week https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA-Myn8KBh0&list…
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20Product: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? The Top 5 Product Lessons in Scaling to 185M Monthly Active Users with Canva Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Cameron ...
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Cameron Adams is Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Canva where he is responsible for heading up the design and product teams. Since launching in 2013, Canva’s global community has grown to over 185 million monthly users in over 190 countries. In 2021, Canva was valued at $40 billion, following a $200m funding round. This saw it become one of …
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“We built our email list to 20,000!” Building Your Email List
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Hello and welcome back to the show - it’s Doone here - your host and Hype Girl. In these Friday episodes, we have a co-host joining us, Josephine, and every week we will be checking in to talk about what’s current and trending in the world of business with tips on how you could leverage that and what’s coming up inside the Facebook group. This week…
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He quit his own company to build Aadhaar, UPI, ONDC for India - Dr.Pramod Varma
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In this special episode, we hosted a very esteemed guest Dr.Pramod Varma, the Former Chief Architect Aadhaar, UPI, & India Stack, CTO EkStep Foundation, Co-Chair CDPI.dev, Co-Founder FIDE.org. He played an integral role in architecting India’s digital health infrastructure, vaccination and immunization infrastructure (Co-WIN & DIVOC). He is the Co-…
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#077 Alex Komoroske: Systems Thinking, Builders vs Gardeners, and Working In Large Organizations
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Topics: (00:00:00) - Intro (00:03:52) - The Gardener of Systems (00:07:43) - Builders vs. Gardeners (00:11:09) - Who are the best farmers of miracles? (00:16:52) - How did you become a “systems” person? (00:23:45) - What does Systems Thinking look like for you? (00:53:09) - Alex’s Slime Mold deck (00:55:12) - The iterative, adjacent possible (00:59…
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The MedTech Startup Podcast - Ken Nelson - Entrepreneur, Investor and Board Member
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Join us for an intimate conversation with Ken Nelson, a passionate MedTech entrepreneur, serial board member, and venture capitalist. In this episode, Ken shares his journey from his humble beginnings in New Jersey to becoming a vital influencer in the MedTech space. Ken's unique insight into the shifting dynamics of the healthcare field, his passi…
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🧬 Nathan Clark - Ganymede - Part 2 | Moving from Goldman Sachs to Fintech | Exploring Product Management at Affirm | Leveraging Data & Building Tech Solutions| Impacting Scientific Progress at Benchling ...
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Part 2 of 4. My guest for this week’s episode is Nathan Clark, Founder and CEO of Ganymede. Ganymede is the modern cloud data platform for the life sciences and manufacturing. Their Lab-as-Code technology allows you to quickly integrate and harmonize lab instruments and app data, automate analysis, visualize all your data in dashboards built over a…
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How to Use One-Person Landing Page Tests to Find Your Differentiator (ITS Classic)
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Today, we'll talk through a landing page system that'll help you find a great initial customer - one that can anchor your business. We'll talk through the circle framework, as well as the One Person Landing Page and the Emotion / Logistics / Urgency flow. This will help you identify the right customer to focus your product building efforts on. Tack…
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How Wiz grew to $500M ARR in 4 years—& could exit to Google for $23B (largest VC-backed exit in history)
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Google is in talks to buy cybersecurity startup Wiz for $23B (a 40x revenue multiple). Wiz is the company that in 2021 announced it grew from $0 to $100M ARR in just 18 months. How did this cybersecurity company grow so fast in a crowded space? How does it get a 40x revenue multiple when FAANG stocks trade at 5-15x? Who are the exceptional founders…
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As a startup, understanding how an agency builds its pricing, will equip you with the understanding to set a scope of work more accurately, agree on a budget quickly, and help you be a better partner overall. That’s why this week episode 45 of the FiredUp! podcast is about how agencies price their work. Download the Multiplier Marketing Megapack to…
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GEMS: The Art of Delegation with Leila Hormozi
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Hello and welcome back to the show - it’s Doone here - your host and Hype Girl. In these twice-weekly episodes, we will be digging back into our archives to find little value-packing gems from previous episodes. In this gem, first generation Iranian-American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist Leila Hormozi walks us through the important but…
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20VC: Brex CEO Pedro Franceschi on What Brex Needs to do to be a Public Company | Brex vs Ramp: Who Wins and How Does it Play Out | Battling Founder Mental Health and The Importance of Secondaries for ...
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Pedro Franceschi is the Co-Founder and CEO @ Brex, the AI-powered spend platform with tens of thousands of customers, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood and Roblox. Pedro has raised over $1.2BN for the company from the likes of Greenoaks, Ribbit, DST, Bond and YC. The latest reported valuation was $12.3BN. Before Brex, Pedro was the first pers…
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GridBid: Advancing Home Decarbonization | Small Tech Podcast with Matt Lanigan
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In this episode of the Small Tech Podcast, we sit down with Matt Lanigan, co-founder of GridBid, the innovative platform simplifying heat pump retrofits for homeowners. Join us as we explore Matt's journey from civil engineering to tech entrepreneurship, the challenges of building a tech product, and the future of home decarbonization. Discover how…
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Morgan Templar on Overcoming Personal Challenges and Building Resilience
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Summary Morgan Templar, founder of First CDO Partners, shares her journey from starting as a secretary to becoming a successful entrepreneur. She discusses the importance of data governance and the role of a chief data officer (CDO) in organizations. Morgan emphasizes the need for good data management and governance, especially in the era of AI. Sh…
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6 Quick Questions with Lizzie Waley, co-founder of Sundae Body (Part 2)
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This is Lizzie Waley for Female Startup Club. Hello and welcome back to the show! It’s Doone here - your host and hype girl. Today on the show, we are getting a front row seat into the joyful world of Sundae Body - a body care brand who has absolutely exploded in the last couple of years. Sundae Body is not only the No.1 toiletry brand in Australia…
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The Art of Balancing Strategy and Emotion in Platform Marketing
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In this episode, WorkOS CEO, Michael Grinich, and former CEO at Vimeo, Adam Gross, discuss the evolution of platform marketing and what it means to balance between strategic and emotive elements in building successful products. They also dive into the distinct challenges and strategies involved in marketing developer-focused platforms. Check out th…
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“1200 retailers before we even had the stock!" Sundae Body’s co-Founder Lizzie Waley reveals her Retail Playbook! (Part 1)
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This is Lizzie Waley for Female Startup Club. Hello and welcome back to the show! It’s Doone here - your host and hype girl. Today on the show, we are getting a front row seat into the joyful world of Sundae Body - a body care brand who has absolutely exploded in the last couple of years. Sundae Body is not only the No.1 toiletry brand in Australia…
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Ep 42: Andy Blair: From Small Town NZ to Running the Worlds Geothermal Industry
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Send us a Text Message. Andrea Blair (or Andy to her mates), a powerhouse in sustainable development and geothermal energy, joins us for a riveting discussion that promises to leave you inspired and informed. Recognised by Forbes as one of the five female founders championing a sustainable future, Andy's story is one of resilience, adaptability, an…
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Marco Ciaffi and the challenges and lessons he and Jothy learned from the Dover experiences
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Summary In this conversation, Jothy Rosenberg and Marco discuss their backgrounds, their experiences working together at Dover, and their current endeavors. They touch on topics such as the importance of culture and communication in building a successful company, the challenges they faced at Dover, and the lessons they learned from those experience…
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🧬 Nathan Clark - Ganymede - Part 1 | Early Influence of Entrepreneurs | Developing Passions for Both Finance & Life Sciences | Fundamentals of Trading & Finances | Experiences & Opportunities at Goldman ...
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As a podcast listener, you can redeem exclusive discounts with a growing list of biotech vendors and get $500 off your first equipment lease by using promo code “TBSP” on https://www.excedr.com/rewards. Part 1 of 4. My guest for this week’s episode is Nathan Clark, Founder and CEO of Ganymede. Ganymede is the modern cloud data platform for the life…
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He built a farming robot that shoots weeds with lasers— then closed $10M in pre-sales before shipping a single one. | Paul Mikesell, Founder of Carbon Robotics.
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Paul built a startup that was acquired for $2.2B. He worked on AI at Uber and Oculus. But when a farmer told him about some of the problems he was facing, he quit and went all-in on farming. He built a robot that attaches to the back of tractors, uses computer vision to identify weeds and lasers to shoot and kill them. He sells each robot for $1.5M…
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E127: Introducing the Upstate Upstarts Fund
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Send us a Text Message. E127: South Carolina is surging with founders and startups seeking capital investment. In today's episode, Paul Clark and Dawson Racek of VentureSouth and Venture Carolina recap the Upstate Upstarts List of South Carolina, and discuss how they plan to use list to select the 15-20 most promising Startups for their Upstate Ups…
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20VC: Why We Are in a Bubble & Now is Frothier Than 2021 | Why $1M ARR is a BS Milestone for Series A | Why Seed Pricing is Rational & Large Seed Rounds Have Less Risk | Why Many AI Apps Have BS Revenue ...
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Saam Motamedi is a General Partner at Greylock, where he has led investments in Abnormal Security (incubated at Greylock), Apiiro Security and Opal Security, as well as AI companies like Adept, Braintrst, Cresta, Predibase, Snorkel, and more. Before Greylock, Saam founded Guru Labs, a machine learning-driven fintech startup, and worked in product m…
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GEMS: The DTC Toolkit with Kosterina founder Katina Mountanos
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Hello and welcome back to the show - it’s Doone here - your host and Hype Girl. In these twice-weekly episodes, we will be digging back into our archives to find little value-packing gems from previous episodes. In this gem, the founder of olive oil brand Kosterina breaks down her DTC toolkit: what's critical and what leads to failure when building…
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A year of learning at InMotion Ventures – Mike Smeed returns
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Last September, I had the pleasure on this show of speaking to Mike Smeed, managing director of InMotion Ventures, the VC unit of Jaguar Land Rover, when he had just recently completed his first year on the job, which was also his first year as a CVC at all. Now, I’m happy to have him back on to talk about what he has learned, and how the team has …
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Building a Successful Online Learning Academy (Ashley McGovern on the DIRECT Podcast with Corrina & Taylor)
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Want to improve your content marketing? DIRECT podcast hosts Corrina & Taylor sit down with Ashley McGovern from Realync to discuss how she creates online courses for Realync's audience. In this podcast episode crossover, Ashley shares how her team's approach helped Realync stand out by offering a resource that's been an easy way for their audience…
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S2E3: Felicis' Viviana Faga on early-stage AI brand development and investment tactics
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Viviana Faga is general partner at Felicis, a venture firm that invests in seed to Series B startups in several sectors. Since its founding in 2006, the company has backed breakout companies like Adyen, Canva, Shopify and Runway. Because she’s a former operator with experience in positioning, branding and go-to-market strategy, I asked her to come …
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Week ending Jul 12, 2024 - Portland startup news
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This week in Portland startup news, Demolicious has introduced 40 startups in 2024, owning the Portland, Oregon, narrative, AI Tinkerers, founder.coffee, and 3 potential opportunities for your startup. ABOUT SILICON FLORIST ----------For nearly two decades, Rick Turoczy has published Silicon Florist, a blog and podcast that covers founders, startup…
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